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Oct 29
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The Foot Bone’s Connected to the Jaw Bone

By Awareness Through Movement Lessons, Blog

The Foot Bone’s connected to the Jaw bone.  An 8 week, online class.

It may seem a stretch to claim that the foot and it’s toes have any direct relationship to the head, neck and jaw.  Structurally speaking, that’s true, but in this class, you will experience the direct relationship of these distant parts of yourself through functional movement explorations.  Each class will focus on a different functional trajectory: Mapping, and integrating these different functional relationships helps your brain to choose a better way.  The movement explorations are concerned primarily with providing your nervous system with CHOICE.  When you have choice, your nervous system responds with more pleasurable, and effortless movement and this translates to reduced pain, improved balance and greater agility.  Improvements in jaw and facial pain problems are also possible.

This is neuroplasticity work, where ‘exploration’ is more valuable than exercise.  If we want lasting change from chronic pain, we must speak the language of the brain.   Our brains respond and learn best when novelty, exploration, and variation are part of the movement experience.

If you have chronic pain or have pain or balance challenges in standing, or walking and jogging, then this is the class that will relieve, and improve that situation. And if you suffer with jaw or facial pain, linking the improved functions of the foot, ankle and toes further upstream often serves to relieve chronic pain in all these areas.

Each class will be recorded and available to you as an .mp3 audio file.  Recordings are available for your personal use only and are not to be duplicated, reproduced, or posted on social media.

Week 1 – Foot and ankle, Head and Jaw.  Oscillations and differentiations.

Week 2 – Pushing through the foot – Skeletal connection from foot to jaw through the spine

Week 3 – Circles, Circles Circles – ankle, knee, and hip

Week 4 – Playing with Your Feet!

Week 5 – Mouth and Tongue Like a Drawer

Week 6 – Distancing the Toes

Week 7 –   Interlacing Your Toes

Week 8 – Rolling, Toes & Fingers interlaced

CLASS DETAILS:
Monday  January 11th, 2027 – Monday, March 1, 2027
9:30am-10:45am
Pre-Registration for all 8 classes is required by December 30, 2026.  No drop-ins, no refunds. Pre-registration through credit card payment below:
Oct 29
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The Foot Bone’s Connected to the Jaw Bone

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The Foot Bone’s connected to the Jaw bone.  An 8 week, online class.

Monday  January 11th, 2027 – Monday, March 1, 2027

9:30am-10:45am

It may seem a stretch to claim that the foot and it’s toes have any direct relationship to the head, neck and jaw.  Structurally speaking, that’s true, but in this class, you will experience the direct relationship of these distant parts of yourself through functional movement explorations.  Each class will focus on a different functional trajectory: Mapping, and integrating these different functional relationships helps your brain to choose a better way.  That better way translates to reduced pain, improved balance and greater agility in uprightness. Improvements in jaw and facial pain conditions are also possible.

This is neuroplasticity work, where ‘exploration’ is more valuable than exercise.  If we want true, lasting change from chronic pain, we must speak the language of the brain.   Our brains respond and learn best when novelty, exploration, and variation are part of the movement experience.

If you have chronic pain or have pain or balance challenges in standing, or walking and jogging, then this is the class that will relieve, and improve that situation. And if you suffer with jaw or facial pain, linking the improved functions of the foot, ankle and toes further upstream often serves to relieve chronic pain in all these areas.

Pre-Registration for all 8 classes is required by December 30, 2026.  No drop-ins, no refunds. All payment formats must pre-register
Personal checks accepted.  Write check to Patricia Holman.  Mailing address: 767 Roca Street, Ashland Oregon 97520

REGISTER BY SCANNING THE QR CODE HERE:

Oct 29
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The Foot Bone’s Connected to the Jaw bone

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The Foot Bone’s connected to the Jaw bone.  An 8 week, online class.

Monday  January 11th, 2027 – Monday, March 1, 2027

9:30am-10:45am

It may seem a stretch to claim that the foot and it’s toes have any direct relationship to the head, neck and jaw.  Structurally speaking, that’s true, but in this class, you will experience the direct relationship of these distant parts of yourself through functional movement explorations.  Each class will focus on a different functional trajectory: Mapping, and integrating these different functional relationships helps your brain to choose a better way.  That better way translates to reduced pain, improved balance and greater agility in uprightness. Improvements in jaw and facial pain conditions are also possible.

This is neuroplasticity work, where ‘exploration’ is more valuable than exercise.  If we want true, lasting change from chronic pain, we must speak the language of the brain.   Our brains respond and learn best when novelty, exploration, and variation are part of the movement experience.

If you have chronic pain or have pain or balance challenges in standing, or walking and jogging, then this is the class that will relieve, and improve that situation. And if you suffer with jaw or facial pain, linking the improved functions of the foot, ankle and toes further upstream often serves to relieve chronic pain in all these areas.

Pre-Registration for all 8 classes is required by December 30, 2026.  No drop-ins, no refunds. All payment formats must pre-register
Personal checks accepted.  Write check to Patricia Holman.  Mailing address: 767 Roca Street, Ashland Oregon 97520

REGISTER BY SCANNING THE QR CODE HERE:

Oct 29
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The Foot Bone’s Connected to the Jaw bone

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The Foot Bone’s connected to the Jaw bone.  An 8 week, online class.

Monday  January 11th, 2027 – Monday, March 1, 2027

9:30am-10:45am

It may seem a stretch to claim that the foot and it’s toes have any direct relationship to the head, neck and jaw.  Structurally speaking, that’s true, but in this class, you will experience the direct relationship of these distant parts of yourself through functional movement explorations.  Each class will focus on a different functional trajectory: Mapping, and integrating these different functional relationships helps your brain to choose a better way.  That better way translates to reduced pain, improved balance and greater agility in uprightness. Improvements in jaw and facial pain conditions are also possible.

This is neuroplasticity work, where ‘exploration’ is more valuable than exercise.  If we want true, lasting change from chronic pain, we must speak the language of the brain.   Our brains respond and learn best when novelty, exploration, and variation are part of the movement experience.

If you have chronic pain or have pain or balance challenges in standing, or walking and jogging, then this is the class that will relieve, and improve that situation. And if you suffer with jaw or facial pain, linking the improved functions of the foot, ankle and toes further upstream often serves to relieve chronic pain in all these areas.

Pre-Registration for all 8 classes is required by December 30, 2026.  No drop-ins, no refunds. All payment formats must pre-register
Personal checks accepted.  Write check to Patricia Holman.  Mailing address: 767 Roca Street, Ashland Oregon 97520

REGISTER BY SCANNING THE QR CODE HERE:

Oct 29
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The Foot Bone’s Connected to the Jaw Bone!

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The Foot Bone’s connected to the Jaw bone.  An 8 week, online class.

Monday  January 11th, 2027 – Monday, March 1, 2027

9:30am-10:45am

It may seem a stretch to claim that the foot and it’s toes have any direct relationship to the head, neck and jaw.  Structurally speaking, that’s true, but in this class, you will experience the direct relationship of these distant parts of yourself through functional movement explorations.  Each class will focus on a different functional trajectory: Mapping, and integrating these different functional relationships helps your brain to choose a better way.  That better way translates to reduced pain, improved balance and greater agility in uprightness. Improvements in jaw and facial pain conditions are also possible.

This is neuroplasticity work, where ‘exploration’ is more valuable than exercise.  If we want true, lasting change from chronic pain, we must speak the language of the brain.   Our brains respond and learn best when novelty, exploration, and variation are part of the movement experience.

If you have chronic pain or have pain or balance challenges in standing, or walking and jogging, then this is the class that will relieve, and improve that situation. And if you suffer with jaw or facial pain, linking the improved functions of the foot, ankle and toes further upstream often serves to relieve chronic pain in all these areas.

Pre-Registration for all 8 classes is required by December 30, 2026.  All payment formats require pre-registration
No drop-ins, no refunds.
Personal checks accepted.  Write check to Patricia Holman.  Mailing address: 767 Roca Street, Ashland Oregon 97520

REGISTER BY SCANNING THE QR CODE HERE:

Sep 15
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The Foot Bone’s Connected to the Jaw Bone!

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The Foot Bone’s connected to the Jaw bone.  An 8 week, online class.

Monday  January 11th, 2027 – Monday, March 1, 2027

9:30am-10:45am

It may seem a stretch to claim that the foot and it’s toes have any direct relationship to the head, neck and jaw.  Structurally speaking, that’s true, but in this class, you will experience the direct relationship of these distant parts of yourself through functional movement explorations.  Each class will focus on a different functional trajectory: Mapping, and integrating these different functional relationships helps your brain to choose a better way.  That better way translates to reduced pain, improved balance and greater agility in uprightness. Improvements in jaw and facial pain conditions are also possible.

This is neuroplasticity work, where ‘exploration’ is more valuable than exercise.  If we want true, lasting change from chronic pain, we must speak the language of the brain.   Our brains respond and learn best when novelty, exploration, and variation are part of the movement experience.

If you have chronic pain or have pain or balance challenges in standing, or walking and jogging, then this is the class that will relieve, and improve that situation. And if you suffer with jaw or facial pain, linking the improved functions of the foot, ankle and toes further upstream often serves to relieve chronic pain in all these areas.

Pre-Registration for all 8 classes is required by December 30, 2026.  No drop-ins, no refunds.
Personal checks accepted.  Write check to Patricia Holman.  Mailing address: 767 Roca Street, Ashland Oregon 97520

REGISTER BY SCANNING THE QR CODE HERE:

Sep 15
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The Foot Bone’s Connected to the Jaw Bone!

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The Foot Bone’s connected to the Jaw bone.  An 8 week, online class.

Monday  January 11th, 2027 – Monday, March 1, 2027

9:30am-10:45am

It may seem a stretch to claim that the foot and it’s toes have any direct relationship to the head, neck and jaw.  Structurally speaking, that’s true, but in this class, you will experience the direct relationship of these distant parts of yourself through functional movement explorations.  Each class will focus on a different functional trajectory: Mapping, and integrating these different functional relationships helps your brain to choose a better way.  That better way translates to reduced pain, improved balance and greater agility in uprightness. Improvements in jaw and facial pain conditions are also possible.

This is neuroplasticity work, where ‘exploration’ is more valuable than exercise.  If we want true, lasting change from chronic pain, we must speak the language of the brain.   Our brains respond and learn best when novelty, exploration, and variation are part of the movement experience.

If you have chronic pain or have pain or balance challenges in standing, or walking and jogging, then this is the class that will relieve, and improve that situation. And if you suffer with jaw or facial pain, linking the improved functions of the foot, ankle and toes further upstream often serves to relieve chronic pain in all these areas.

Pre-Registration for all 8 classes is required by December 30, 2026.  No drop-ins, no refunds.
Personal checks accepted.  Write check to Patricia Holman.  Mailing address: 767 Roca Street, Ashland Oregon 97520

REGISTER BY SCANNING THE QR CODE HERE:

Sep 15
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The Foot Bone’s Connected to the Jaw Bone

By

The Foot Bone’s connected to the Jaw bone.  An 8 week, online class.

Monday  January 11th, 2027 – Monday, March 1, 2027

9:30am-10:45am

It may seem a stretch to claim that the foot and it’s toes have any direct relationship to the head, neck and jaw.  Structurally speaking, that’s true, but in this class, you will experience the direct relationship of these distant parts of yourself through functional movement explorations.  Each class will focus on a different functional trajectory: Mapping, and integrating these different functional relationships helps your brain to choose a better way.  That better way translates to reduced pain, improved balance and greater agility in uprightness. Improvements in jaw and facial pain conditions are also possible.

This is neuroplasticity work, where ‘exploration’ is more valuable than exercise.  If we want true, lasting change from chronic pain, we must speak the language of the brain.   Our brains respond and learn best when novelty, exploration, and variation are part of the movement experience.

If you have chronic pain or have pain or balance challenges in standing, or walking and jogging, then this is the class that will relieve, and improve that situation. And if you suffer with jaw or facial pain, linking the improved functions of the foot, ankle and toes further upstream often serves to relieve chronic pain in all these areas.

Pre-Registration for all 8 classes is required by December 30, 2026.  No drop-ins, no refunds.
Personal checks accepted.  Write check to Patricia Holman.  Mailing address: 767 Roca Street, Ashland Oregon 97520

REGISTER BY SCANNING THE QR CODE HERE:

Sep 15
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The Foot Bone’s Connected to the Jaw bone

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The Foot Bone’s connected to the Jaw bone.  An 8 week, online class.

Monday  January 11th, 2027 – Monday, March 1, 2027

9:30am-10:45am

It may seem a stretch to claim that the foot and it’s toes have any direct relationship to the head, neck and jaw.  Structurally speaking, that’s true, but in this class, you will experience the direct relationship of these distant parts of yourself through functional movement explorations.  Each class will focus on a different functional trajectory: Mapping, and integrating these different functional relationships helps your brain to choose a better way.  That better way translates to reduced pain, improved balance and greater agility in uprightness. Improvements in jaw and facial pain conditions are also possible.

This is neuroplasticity work, where ‘exploration’ is more valuable than exercise.  If we want true, lasting change from chronic pain, we must speak the language of the brain.   Our brains respond and learn best when novelty, exploration, and variation are part of the movement experience.

If you have chronic pain or have pain or balance challenges in standing, or walking and jogging, then this is the class that will relieve, and improve that situation. And if you suffer with jaw or facial pain, linking the improved functions of the foot, ankle and toes further upstream often serves to relieve chronic pain in all these areas.

Pre-Registration for all 8 classes is required by December 30, 2026.  No drop-ins, no refunds. All payment formats must pre-register
Personal checks accepted.  Write check to Patricia Holman.  Mailing address: 767 Roca Street, Ashland Oregon 97520

REGISTER BY SCANNING THE QR CODE HERE:

Sep 06
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Creative & Effective Movement & Awareness-Based Solutions For Pain

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What are your strategies for resiliency when you encounter chronic pain, limitation, emotional or physical trauma?

Do you ignore it?  Do you rationalize or minimize it?  Or maybe, you amplify it?  Do you have a go-to modality for help?  Do you have creative & effective movement & awareness-based solutions for pain?

Our culture is one in which embodied, somatic experience is neither examined nor prioritized.  And in our western culture this lack of exploration of an integral element of  human experience has thus never had an opportunity to mature to be the wellspring of resiliency that nature, or g-d, intended.  Especially when accident or injury happens.  As a long-time practitioner and clinician of the embodiment work of Dr. Moshe Feldenkrais, I am certain that you hold the answers for eliminating pain, and disease, and that you have the tools within yourself to recover your vitality and life force. This is an exploration into the community of self.  What do I mean by “community of the self”?  This is the physical, emotional, cognitive, mental, spiritual parts acting in an integrated experience of ‘myself’.

I am witness to the unfortunate phenomenon, based on years of clinical practice, that this integration is incomplete and immature as long as we look outside of our ‘community of self’ for solutions to embodiment problems.

REGISTER HERE TODAY!

What Can I Expect In Your Workshop?

I will lead you through a sequence of 5-6 movement ‘lessons’ based on a theme.  The movement explorations are fun and designed to invite a fresh awareness and curiosity for movement.   They are designed to restore your resiliency for effortless physical action.  The movement lesson environment is similar to that in which you first learned your motor milestones!  This learning environment is infused with novelty, curiosity, enthusiasm, and variation.

All lessons will be done lying on the floor.  Chairs will be available.

The first part of the workshop will be meeting the group and communicating your goals for the day. I will lead the group through 2-3 movement lessons in the morning with short in-between breaks for rest and drink.  Lunch break will be 70 minutes, for plenty of time to stroll the grounds, meditate in secluded locations and/or connect with participants.  The afternoon will resume with 2-3 additional movement lessons.  I will wrap up the day with comments and questions.  Movement lessons last anywhere from 30 minutes to 70 minutes.

This Workshop is for Everyone!

From high performers to those with neuro-movement challenges, all are welcome. Regardless of symptom or diagnosis, regardless of the degree, intensity, or chronic nature of injury, trauma, or challenge, you can all expect deep & lasting shifts in posture, balance, flexibility, pain relief & vitality.  You will leave the day with somatic strategies when encountering old familiar patterns, and through this new understanding, have the tools to respond in an entirely new way.

Please join me in this remarkable opportunity for lasting relief and improvement.

Admin Details

  • Please be able to get up and down from the floor without assistance and bring a personal large size mat or quilt for movement and 2 bath-size towels

 

  • The studio floor on which you will be doing movement lessons is wood…my preference for this type of movement work.  So if you require extra padding, you’re welcome to bring yoga sticky mat for under your blanket

 

  • Dress in layers & wear loose, roomy clothing. Jeans aren’t recommended nor are yoga leggings or other tight fitting clothing.  Women; An exercise bra without hooks or snaps is best

 

  • Bring your own  beverage, snacks and lunch.  A refrigerator is available for you. The workshop location is not close to town, so leaving for lunch break is not recommended.  I will have a tea pot, teas, and some light finger food available

 

  • Arrive a few minutes early to choose your personal movement space. I will be available by 8:30am should you want more time with me

 

  • You’re welcome to bring a cell phone, but please turn off, or place in airplane mode while in the studio space

 

  • The Workshop will be held on an extraordinary private property with many gorgeous gardens, walking paths, and serene grounds.  The location will be provided after registration is received.  On private property in rural Ashland near Emigrant Lake

 

  • All workshop students will receive a 50% discount coupon ($75.00 value) for one private session at my Ashland studio after the workshop.  Expires end of 2024.

REGISTER HERE TODAY!

 

ABOUT PATRICIA

As a Guild Certified Feldenkrais Practitioner for 30+ years, my services cover all ages and myriad diagnoses, from acute injury rehabilitation to complex neurological challenges.  I provide my clients and students with practical embodiment tools to restore biological optimism and full function.  I consider this modality to be educational in practice and transformational in outcome.

Owner-Director The Center for Mind, Moving & Learning, based in Ashland, Oregon