When beginning a course of lessons, the instructor will first teach you some simple activities that you can use at home to free your neck and spine on your own.  

The lesson will continue with assistance in quieting your nervous system and you will begin exploring, with guidance, new possibilities in movement. 

You will learn to increase your awareness of your posture (beginning with your neck), movement and breathing as you perform everyday activities, such as sitting, standing, walking, lifting, etc. Through a combination of subtle hands-on guidance and verbal instruction you will be guided into new movement patterns. The instructor’s extensive training and experience allow her to recognize –– visually and kinesthetically — directions of muscle pulls interfering with your balance and restricting your movement.

A portion of the lesson will be dedicated to table work, or lying-down work, during which you’ll lie on a hard surface. The instructor will encourage lengthening of the spine and widening of the torso by quieting the nervous system and helping to move your arms, legs and head in directions encouraging freedom in the joints and lengthening of the muscles. 

Another portion of the lesson may involve applying the principles to developmental movement – movement patterns that preceded an upright, two-footed stance – like that of a small child.  The spine is in a different relationship to gravity when on hands and knees and it becomes easier to make significant changes.