Together, Carol and Cynthia are infinity and beyond; Buzz Lightyears and beyond; This workshop is the Hitchhikers Guide to Gait.

Leslie Renquist Hughes Advanced Rolfer July 28, 2017

The Advanced Training “Gait for Wild Human Potential” will illuminate your thinking and enliven your teaching about this basic human function. Cynthia Allen and Carol Montgomery are gifted teachers, weaving together information about the role of reflexes on lifelong movement patterns and detailed anatomical analysis with individual and small group movement practices to clearly explain and allow participants to experience the concepts of Integral Human Gait Theory. I especially appreciated the discussions of approaches and techniques to address specific movement challenges. Carol and Cynthia generously answer questions, provide individual attention and suggest approaches for back-home application. I highly recommend this advanced training for both experienced Feldenkrais® or Movement Intelligence® practitioners and for those just starting out.

Marg Bartosek GCFP and Bones for Life® Teacher July 28, 2017

I especially appreciated the well balanced combination of intellectual understanding and embodied experience which made for a very rich learning environment in the Gait for Wild Human Potential workshop.

Linda Hedquist LMT July 28, 2017

I appreciated that I saw so many others in the class with gait issues. I have felt alone in coping/relearning my optimal gait. The encouragement and support I received from fellow workshop participants was just wonderful. I left the workshop feeling confident in my gait and no longer feeling like a patient.

Anne Cahill July 28, 2017

Carol and Cynthia do a super job of developing a clear and logical approach to the Gait program and theories with an easy to follow presentation.

Participant July 28, 2017

I reclaimed a relationship with my mid ribs. I feel stacked from the bottom of my stance leg, supported and ready to lift my swing leg to transfer again.

I appreciate so much that you have taken the skills from Bones for Life and Feldenkrais, and just who both of you are, and applied them such a basic function which I agree is essential in our human development at all ages. I feel like I can now apply this to all ages of people who come for a number of different situations.

Penny Neu GCFP, LMT July 28, 2017

I so enjoyed the taking one function–gait–and covering the parts so thoroughly that I actually get it! I feel smart, for once in a Feldenkrais-ish workshop. I will be able to USE this material!!! Thank you for being so technical without resorting to language that loses me. For keeping it somatic, yet giving my mind so much to run with. For teaching so well, both of you, with such neutral expressions of personality. I am so grateful for your work, and your willingness to travel here to teach. This workshop will have a tremendous impact on my movement health, and on how efficiently I can help my Bowen clients stand & walk more fully into their lives. Extraordinarily, powerful experience.

Colette Claude Bowen Therapist July 28, 2017

Wow, so, so much put together to create this workshop. I loved the somatics. I can use this material in my place of work, Long Term Care.

Susy Boge OTR/L July 28, 2017

I’m even more impressed two months after the gait workshop. The perceived benefits mentally, physically, emotionally and spiritually continue to operate in my daily life. Especially helpful was the model of a “dive” downwards in preparation for a jump upwards and outwards, i.e. to a higher place. And in fact I did take a very uncomfortable dive into a dark and scary place and have jumped to a more integrated actualized version of myself. I felt and still feel totally supported by the teachers and the group in my own process. It’s remarkable to feel so safe and intimate with others without feeling crowded. Even thought the physical space was small, the experienced space was very roomy.

Bonnie Angelie RN, GCFP July 28, 2017

Gait for Wild Human Potential was a good challenge for me, moving from typical student to more physical learning to interacting with other people and still being responsible for my own learning. The modeling of the instructors in calling forth the compassionate reflex was very key to my own growth and comfort.

Kate Kern Visual Artist July 28, 2017

Very valuable material. An innovative and creative presentation with solid content. Carol and Cynthia have a nice tag team teaching style that includes humor and disclosure. Thank you, thank you, thank you. A wonderful experience. A great learning.

Donna Lilley Physical Therapist July 28, 2017

Professionally: As an acupuncturist and craniosacral therapist I have learned to feel restrictions in my clients lying on the table….during the class, I learned to see those restrictions and how they affect movement and gait…I gained an appreciation of how structural balancing and aligning leads to greater vitality and self-expression…balancing the qi, revitalizing the life force energy, opening the midline to the breath of life.

Integrating: I could feel/see how the VPLH is directly related to the Kidney meridian – starting at K 1, the roman sandal, the first point of the meridian, and moving up the medial aspect of the leg to the dantien, and all that it holds, before moving on and expressing outward to the rest of the body – there’s a lot more to that story…

Mimi Tagher Acupucturist July 28, 2017

Thanks so much for another amazing workshop! Always useful, always illuminating. Cynthia and Carol are brilliant educators.

Cindy Senefeld July 28, 2017

I am so grateful for the time spent with you last weekend! You made it possible for me to be reacquainted with this (almost) 70 year old body in a most gratifying way. Learning did take place in a most gentle, logical order that has given me much optimism about the present and the future. Thank you for your discernment, sharing your expertise so creatively and making a very enjoyable experience: new friendships, new confidence, endless potential!

Participant July 28, 2017