Body Blueprints
A workshop on experiential anatomy and functional movement principles for performers, educators, and anyone with a body.
Our movement follows our mental map of the body. When the map is off, we bend from the wrong place, brace in the wrong places, and ask a few joints to do the work of many. Over time, those habits show up as fatigue, stiffness, and overuse injuries. Cone learn how the body is actually put together, how its parts coordinate, and how to apply these ideas for yourself and your students.
This workshop will provide practical tools to:
Access easier movement: notice and release the habits of tension that get in the way of expression, range, and stamina.
Understand body mechanics: use functional anatomy to see how the body coordinates for standing, walking, lifting, voice, and performance.
Work with injury: learn principles to prevent injury and find safe and functional ways to move when injuries are present.
Bring it back to your studio, classroom, and life: take away practical, verbal, and movement-based tools you can use the next day.
November 14th
3pm - 6pm
Pig Iron Studios
(1417 N. 2nd St, Philadelphia PA)
$45 Community Support: I'm from the global North or can access savings, investments, or inheritance.
$25 Discounted: I'm BIPOC, from the global South, low income/working class, or have less wealth.
$35 Regular: I don't see myself in the other levels. (This level covers costs.)
about the workshop
DETAILS
This is:
Designed to be restorative, reflective, and nourishing
Based on loving critical conversation
A series of sessions that will ask you to show up as you would to a meditation practice, ready to be with yourself, write, reflect, absorb, and privately share if you choose
A multiracial space
This isn’t:
A workshop on the basics of racism
a public forum to share your thoughts and feelings, perform, or present
More about Lyra
We believe that attending to who we are, and the quality of our beings in relationship to others and the world, is critical to contributing to the health and well-being of the planet, and ourselves. We believe that health, ease, efficiency, interconnectedness, love, and belonging are inherent to our nature as individuals and a collective.
We are interested in actively confronting the usual practice of separating body, mind, and spirit from one another. We challenge the belief that caring for our own beings is separate from our daily lives and our work for the greater good.
We focus on promoting life-sustaining forces and structures. We focus on deconstructing what gets in the way of our innate belonging. We focus on shifting our perception and consciousness to assist us on the journey.
Lyra Butler-Denman is an artist, movement teacher, and Alexander Technique teacher with a history of activism. She is the founder of Alexander Technique Portland and a faculty member of the Contemporary Alexander School and the Alexander Alliance International. She believes that it is our nature to be free, and her work facilitates returning to our nature. She provides tools to access innate coordination, movement, and ease in the actions of daily life. She works with trauma and belief systems and the way they act on and affect our bodies and our physical experience. She is specifically interested in how these realms affect and create equity/inequity. Lyra is a heterosexual, white-identified, cis-gender woman and uses the pronouns she, her, and hers.