Awareness Through Movement® Lessons

Since Awareness Through Movement® (ATM®) lessons can be described as a modern sensory motor approach to developing awareness, I coach you in learning ways to become more aware of your patterns of how you approach and activate movement. You learn through self-discovery how you can do the movements with more ease, and then take that learning into your everyday life and experiences.

Most of the movements are done lying down: mostly on your back or side. You learn to explore differences between your sides.

This helps you transform and improve the quality of your life. ATM® classes use movement and sensory discrimination to help you open to awareness and refine how you function in the world.

This leads to biological fitness, ease of movement, recovery from injury and emotional dignity, as you discover the resources necessary to meet the uncertainty of our times. When I teach, I watch as carefully as I can to what each person is doing, coaching through words, often repeating the instructions in different ways.

I also give people the chance to ask questions if they do not understand something, though I encourage people to listen, pay attention and find their own way through the movements. It is important that no strain or stress is created and I continually suggest that the movements be done with a lighter and effortless quality, continually offering more guidance, suggestions and questions that can help them tune into their own sensations and resources, thereby improving their self-image.