Workshop Schedule 2008

Radiant Body Workshop • Starts Mon April 28 • Lafayette  |  How to Improve Your Running Form: The Fundamentals Workshop • April 26th  |  FREE! Seminar Topics for Runners • Starts Friday April 20th

Douglas Wisoff, P.T., leading a Running Clinic.

If you have any questions about any of these workshops, please contact Douglas and he will be happy to clarify. Note: Douglas offers a FREE running form evaluation or injury evaluation – contact him to schedule.

Radiant Body Workshop

Dates: • Monday April 28 • Tuesday May 5 • Monday May 12
           • Monday May 19 • Monday June 2 • Monday June 9

Time: 5:45 – 7:30 pm

Location: 4586 North 95th Street, Lafayette, CO.
(1.25 miles north of the intersection of Valmont and 95th).

Cost: $165

How to Register: Call Douglas at 303-499-2062

Description:

Radiant Body Workshop is about understanding and working to develop the potential that is housed in the human body. (Click here to download PDF with more detail.)

Participants will get a full understanding of the role posture plays as the foundation of efficient movement as well as how it affects us mentally and emotionally.

Each individual will experience how small qualitative improvements in the way they hold themselves creates the possibility to move with more relaxation and freedom. This renewed sense of unity replaces the fragmented movement patterns caused by years of ingrained tensions. The Radiant Body Class will lay a foundation for continued positive change through experiential exercises and the use of visualization. The workshop is oriented to specific postural needs of each participant, and at the completion of the six sessions everyone will have tools to work with their particular issues.

Throughout the six sessions we will reference information and material offered in the class back to walking and running. We will also be suggesting “homework assignments” that can be used integrate the understanding gained in class to very active work with your posture and moving activities.

Session One: Segments and Bands
• Monday April 28th
Studying how the body could and does function can help us direct our attention and explore intellectually and experientially its potential. In this initial session we will define the territory. Breaking the body down into the different segments, understanding their functions and how they interrelate brings us awareness and guidance when working to improve our posture and movement. This will entail part lecture and part experiential awareness exercises.

Session Two: Building the Body From the Ground Up
• Monday May 5th
Emphasis will be on pelvis, hips, legs, and feet. You will be taken through a series of exercises that helps develop your relationship to the ground. Learning how to relax and release this part of the body is crucial to more fluid and powerful movement throughout the body.

Session Three: The Power of Now • Monday May 12th
The chest area contains the organs of our immediate experience of life. In one moment food and air is out there and the next it is in our bodies, in our chest area where it is getting processed or exchanged to keep this vehicle on the road. With the chest we appreciate the mystery first hand. It houses our most basic sources of inspiration and motivation. It stands to reason that we ought to take full advantage of its functions. That is what this particular class will address.

Session Four: Integration of Body, Mind and Movement
• Monday May 19th
Important exercises that integrate the upper and lower segments of the body will establish your body's relationship to the ground, to the space around you, and to movement through that space.

Session Five: Head and Neck
• Monday June 2nd
It is now time to get our heads on straight. This segment contains our command center and the powerful organs and reflexes having to do with awareness of space, balance, the distribution of nerve signals throughout the body, and our ability to register, process and respond consciously to a wide variety of information. Our orientation to, perceptions of, and attitudes about the environment we live in is affected by the way we hold our heads. Our head and neck position plays a huge role in the integration of the body and sense of extension and connection.

Session Six: Grande Finale
• Monday June 9th
This class will be devoted to unanswered questions and individual concerns. We will have covered the general issues around posture and body use that affects all of us and ones specific to each individual. This will be a time to make final assessments, suggestions, and recommendations. Also we will be making to final adjustments to the exercises that people have been working with to best accomplish their goals.

What people are saying about the Radiant Body Workshop:

The biggest benefit I saw from the Radiant Body workshop was how the corrections to my posture have improved my dancing. My dance instructor has always taught me to lead from my core, which is the region between my sternum and hips. Though I understood what she wanted I could never integrate my body to achieve what she was describing. The simple exercises I learned in the Radiant Body workshop gave me the tools to adjust my posture and suddenly things I’d been struggling with for years with dancing fell into place. Dancing has became much easier and I finally feel that I’m moving from my core as my instructor has always coached.

— Hal Yoder  3/25/08

Just wanted to send you a comment or two about the powerful effect the Radiant Body Classes that you and Janet conducted have had on my life. I really enjoyed learning new ways to body sense, that included taking time out of my day to relax using constructive rest, posturing with the head and neck alignment and proper body carriage. These techniques and quiet exercises have all but eliminated my shoulder and neck pain and most importantly, taught me how to identify situations and postures that may invite the  reoccurrence of the pain. I would whole heartedly recommend this class to anyone. Happy Spring!

—Terri Pankey 

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How to Improve Your Running Form:
The Fundamentals Workshop

With Janet Runyan, Douglas Wisoff & Art Ives

Date & Time: Saturday April 26th, 11:30–5:30 • Cost: $95
(Future Dates: May 24th • June 21st • July 19th)

To register / more information:
Call Janet at 720-839-6896 or email jrunyan@indra.com

What You Get! • Video Taping and Gait Analysis • Conceptual Material with Experiential Exercises • An Understanding of Proper Body Alignment and Basic Movement Principles • Individual Critique on Your Stride Mechanics (click here to download PDF flyer for workshop)

Workshop content

Video Taping and Gait Analysis

First we will film, view and study your running form and biomechanics. This indispensable tool affords you a great opportunity to see yourself in action and receive expert feedback that both reinforces the things you are doing right in your form and movement and helps you to correct the habits and inefficiencies that hold you back from feeling and performing your best. It sets the stage for change and improvement.

Proper Body Alignment and Principles of Movement

Next we will present and reinforce, with body-based exercises, "Proper Body Alignment and Principles of Movement." These concepts will be your guide for how to run efficiently as well as enabling you to contact your source of strength and power. We will help you apply the basic principles of movement that include; the absence of unnecessary effort, circularity, grounding, moving from your center or core, momentum and rhythm. These principles will help you identify and manifest the basic qualities of good running form such as directed arm swing, optimal body lean, integration of upper and lower body and utilization of the powerful core muscles of the hips and pelvis. Skillful use of these principles is central to fluid efficient movement and provides the foundation for continued improvement.

Individualized Critique of Your Running Form

Everyone will receive individual instruction so that you will leave with a basic understanding and the essential tools you need so that you can successfully work with your running form. This will include videotaping again, so that you can see the changes and improvements made during the day. Everyone will have an opportunity to observe improvements others make, giving you a wide range of impressions that facilitate the learning process.

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Seminar Topics for Runners

Presented by Boulder Running Works (click to download PDF of topics)

• Friday May 2nd
  Healing On The Run: Dealing with injury.
• Friday May 16th
  Pacing and Racing Strategy for Running the Bolder Boulder
• Friday June 13th
  Mental Strategy: Mind/Body techniques for successful distance runners.
• Friday July 11th
  Food, Energy, Performance, and Diet: Meeting the nutritional demands of sports training.

Time: 6:00 to 7:30 PM

Cost: Free!

Location: 4586 N. 95th St. Lafayette

Directions: This location is midway between the intersections of North 95th St. and Valmont to the south and Lookout Rd. to the north. It is on the east side of the road, and there is a hanging sign next to the driveway that reads: Highland Acres.
As you drive into the driveway there is a large house to your left, and next to that a garage. The next building to your left, north of the parking area is a teaching space. That is where we will meet for the seminars.

For further information, douglas@radiantrunning.com 720-839-6896 or 303-499-2062, or e-mail Janet: jrunyan@indra.com, 720- 839-6896