Bones for Life®
Online via Zoom video conference
Bones for Life® Teacher Training
We completed our 2021/22 teacher certification training!
announcement of new graduates coming soon!
Bones for Life develops flexibility and vitality, boosts bone and muscle strength, improves posture, balance and walking through movement processes and self-touch strategies.
The Bones for Life Online Training is composed of 3 segments plus the Teacher Didactic/Practicum material that is integrated throughout the segments. Each segment is 15 weeks of 2 hours each class session to equal 30 hours. The Teacher Didactic/Practicum is a total of 30 hours.
Are you ready to dive into the Bones for Life training?
Please contact Anna if you are interested in a future training. Scroll down this page or click on Read more... for certification details.
You can take this program for personal self-care - you do not have to take it exclusively to become a teacher.
Bones for Life is under the umbrella of the Movement Intelligence program created by Ruthy Alon, Senior Feldenkrais® Trainer.
The Bones for Life training is appropriate for anyone wishing to enhance their own bone health, and for healthcare professionals wishing to include Bones for Life concepts and processes into their personal and professional practice, and classes.
Small class size ensures lots of personal attention. Learn this valuable program from the comfort of your own home or office. The training is done on Zoom video conferencing - stay safe! you don't have to travel or pay for accommodation!
Your bones are as reliable as your posture is able to sustain your body weight in an efficient alignment.
Your bones are as strong as your activity is dynamic and able to cope with challenges that demand strength.
Your bones are as healthy as Nature meant, when your movements are natural and all your parts of yourself are harmoniously coordinated.
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Bones for Life® Classes
You can also use WISE.
Bones for Life develops flexibility and vitality, boosts bone and muscle strength, improves posture, balance, and walking through movement processes and self-touch strategies.
Bones for Life classes are appropriate for anyone wishing to enhance their own bone health and increase their capacity for dynamic movement.
It also serves well as a review for those who already know Ruthy Alon's Bones for Life program.
Learn this valuable program from the comfort of your own home.
In the first set of classes, you will learn many basic Bones for Life processes with the final 15 minutes being discussion and review to encourage a daily practice. As well as learning new processes, successive classes will include variations of the previously learned processes in order to deepen the experience. In this way, you will build a potent repertoire of the Bones for Life material.
In some classes, we also add a 4 minute walk / run in place towards the end of the class using the concepts & ideas we learned in the class as per a recent study:
women who spend more than 2 minutes of their day at an intensity equivalent to running have on average 6% better bone health than those who do less than a minute. This was accomplished over a 6-12 month period of time.
Later classes deepen your knowledge and experience of Bones for Life by focusing on specific processes.
One participant reported after attending 5 classes that she grew 1/4 inch:
"Big news! I was 1/4 inch taller today when my Doctor checked my height!
I had lost a 1/2 inch ever since maybe 10 years ago and seemed to be staying there until doing Bones for Life, which reminds me HOW TO stand up by lengthening my spine!
Woohoo!
I so appreciate what you’ve been teaching!"
- Elizabeth Strauss, Feldenkrais® Practitioner
Please contact Anna if you are interested.
Bones for Life is under the umbrella of the Movement Intelligence program created by Ruthy Alon, Senior Feldenkrais® Trainer.
An exercise program for regenerating bone tissue based on Dr. Moshe Feldenkrais' approach to somatic learning which addresses one of the chronic problems of today's western society: the deterioration of bone tissue.
Explore the ways in which natural movement can stimulate the necessary pressure to stimulate the renewal of bone tissue.- Get in touch with the wisdom inherent in your body and improve your coordination and stability.
- Re-awaken the harmony and flexibility of your movement and enjoyment of a reliable skeleton.
- Align your neck and lumbar to prevent compression and distortion.
- Gain resourcefulness for personal safety and options for coping with vulnerable joints.
- Inspire the urge to move and enjoy the ageless biological optimism of a springy and dynamic walk
- Align your posture into safe weight-bearing uprightness
- Develop your skill of restoring equilibrium
- Enhamce the pleasure of moving
The Bones for Life program addresses the functional aspect of movement skill involved in withstanding the force of gravity by offering a series of movement processes that improve the quality of body coordination. The emphasis of the program is on organizing the skeleton into a safe weight-bearing posture to sustain springy pulsations of force - the natural code for bone strength and suppleness.
Bones for Life is based on the teachings of Moshe Feldenkrais for the re-education of movement habits. Awakening the self to improve the quality of moving is achieved through gradual experience of unused options. The learning is geared to the harmonious integration of all body parts in functioning, integration being the central characteristic of any organism. The suggested ways of moving are explored in the perspective of the reciprocal coordination of all body parts.
A dynamic and springy walking style is the natural motivation which stimulates the organism to strengthen its bones. It is the rhythmical pulsations of lively steps that enable the blood, which carries nutrients and oxygen, to penetrate the solid tissue of the bones and provide for growth of new bone cells. A well-aligned posture and harmonious coordination of movement are essential for sustaining the springy pressure of this dynamic walk which can stimulate bone strength.
The movement configurations in the Bones for Life program are modeled after the primal patterns of locomotion in nature. The efficiency of these patterns has been proven throughout millions of years of evolution. These basic patterns of walking are re-learned in the program in greenhouse conditions of safe and gradual practice that are adaptable to individual pace and ability. Simple tools facilitate the development of controlled resistance to pressure, like using a strip of cloth as a wrap, pushing a wall, lifting weights, or learning safe ways of falling.
Participants find joy in their practice and they are more satisfied with their competence in moving. The increased confidence in a more reliable skeleton inspires a sensation of biological optimism.
Bones for Life
- The program for stimulating bone strength through natural movement and weight bearing posture.
- Strong bones are built by dynamic confrontation with gravity.
- The skeleton outsmarts gravity by unifying the whole body in an organization that supports a springy walk.
- At the cellular level, dynamic movement enables the blood that is filled with nutrients and oxygen to penetrate the bone and support the growth of new cells.
- The vicious cycle of lack of movement results in loss of bones strength, which in turn, leads to further lack of movement.
- The code of organic movement that stimulates building bone: springy, rhythmic pressure at rate that is equal to dynamic walking; configurations of movement that are derived from those that evolution has determined to be efficient and economical; cooperation of all the body parts in harmonious proportion; the transmission of pressure from one polarity to another in a domino effect.
- Structure and function are interdependent.
- The primary condition for sustaining dynamic movements that can build bone is to secure a safe posture that can protect the vulnerable joints in the neck, lumbar, hip joints, and knees, and spare them from compression and deviation.