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W1
9.30 – 12.30 +14.00 – 17.00 Susan Worsfold and Anna Bambridge
Voicing our Vision
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W2
9.30 – 12.30
Marianne Wiendl
Systemic eye therapy. Better Vision with family constellations |
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W3
15.00 – 18.00
Sylvia Lakeland with Mikolaj Markiewicz
Breaking barriers, learning new educational tools and improving vision, for ever! |
30.10
Friday |
W4
9.30 – 12.30
Benoit Istace
From joint and muscular fluidity to eyesight fluidity
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W5
9.30 – 12.30
Peter Ruiter
Eyeball Massage
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W6
9.30 – 12.30
Esther Joy van der Werf
The Physical and Mental Tensions We Can Release to Improve Vision
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30.10
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10.00 – 12.30 Giorgio Ferrario
exchange of ideas for the organization of professional training in the Bates Method |
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C O N F E R E N C E |
1.11
Sunday |
W7
16.30 – 19.30
Fernanda Leite Ribeiro
Playful choices for vision improvement.
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W8
16.30 – 19.30
Uschi Ostermeier-Sitkowski
Yoga Nidra – deep relaxation for the eyes
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W9
16.30 – 19.30
Stefanie Hennigfeld
Help, Client is coming! How to prepare well for individual training
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2.11
Monday |
W10
9.30 – 12.30
Lynn Bullock
An insight into vision using the Feldenkrais method |
W11
9.30 – 12.30
Sabine Nebendahl
The Slow Learning Child ( test and training |
W12
9.30 – 12.30 + 14.00 – 17.00
Sarah Cobb
AcuLight
Vision Enhancement for Myopia
Hands-on workshop.
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W15
14.00 – 19.00
Meir Schneider
Vision and Bodywork |
W13
14.00 – 17.00
Giorgio Ferrario
Using sound to achieve a better sight |
3.11
Tuesday |
Suite
9.00 – 12.30 + 14.00 – 17.00
Meir Schneider
Vision and Bodywork |
W14
9.30 – 12.30 + 14.00 – 17.00
Mikolaj Markiewicz
with Sylvia Lakeland
The epidemic of myopia in schools. Fate or choice?
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Schedule subject to change!
Lunch 12h45 Dinner 19h15/30 |
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Susan Worsfold and Anna Bambridge |
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Voicing our Vision
For the past year Susan Worsfold and Anna Bambridge have been
working together developing the relationship between sight and sound. We
bring our combined expertise in vision and voice and have been
discovering the huge similarities in our work and the benefits of sharing our
knowledge. Using the powerful relaxation and release techniques of the
voice brings an energy release and communication which can have an
immediate effect on the quality of eyesight when attention is drawn to this.
We collaborated on a workshop 'Voicing Our Vision' delivered to Holistic
Vision teachers in April 2008 in Glasgow, Scotland. This was a great
success (see www.indivisual.org.uk/teaching for a workshop summary)
and since then we have been developing the work further and plan to
deliver more workshops in Scotland in 2009. We would like to bring this
work to the international community to share the new developments that
we have made. We have discovered that allowing one’s voice to reach all
around and to the horizon can also expand one’s vision to new horizons.
The workshop will give participants first hand experience of working with their
voices in a therapeutic and supportive setting. While using the voice techniques
awareness of vision and overall energy will be important. The workshop will start
with a physical relaxation warm up and group introduction to moving and energy
before moving onto the detailed exploration of each person’s own unique voice
with the emphasis always on release. While exploring the voice because of the
holistic nature of life the person’s unique vision can also be explored.
This work has many applications. For an individual who feels stuck on his or her
vision journey this technique can offer a radical release with a shift of emphasis
away from the eyes and towards the whole person. It adds useful metaphors into
the vision healing conversation and helps people have the confidence and ability
to communicate their experiences thus helping to tell more people about the
potential of holistic vision healing.
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W2 |
Marianne Wiendl
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Systemic eye therapy
Better Vision with family constellations
We know all that ametropia and diseases of the eyes tell us something about our personality and our character. Eyes are the door to our soul and when we open it we can discover old traumata. With the work of systemic eye therapy we can see the correlations of our family structure and our eyes and how we get influenced by our family. By seeing that dynamic, we have the possibility to change old doctrines, to heal them and to make a better living and approach a better vision.
Systemic eye therapy can be used for all diseases of the eyes and all ametropia. It is a wonderful addition to each vision training and treatments in holistic medicine. You can do it alone or in groups. To know about the dynamic of family constellations helps you to have a better understanding of your clients.
Literature:
Systemische Augentherapie, Foitzick Verlag, 2007
also as paperback at Knaur Verlag, 2008 -Authors: Marianne Wiendl, Uschi Ostermeier-Sitkowski |
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Sylvia Lakeland and Mikolaj Markiewicz
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Breaking barriers, learning new educational tools and improving vision, for ever!
A very special workshop prepared mostly for those involved in training and the educational world: during three hours we will have a very intensive practical workshop putting into practice what we read and hear about the basic vision dysfunctions such as myopia or hyperopia as well vision problems such as macular degeneration, for example. Through practical experience we will first get to understand more of what is involved in these vision situations. Next, let us discover in depth what consciousness and relaxation mean and how to get there! Follows a set of exercises and variations that can be used in different situations and locations, such as in groups, classrooms or in individual training. How to make sure these techniques are effective and long lasting. Of course all this will happen while we all have great fun and entertainment as the best tool to reach all targets. |
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Benoît Istace |
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From joint and muscular fluidity to eyesight fluidity
“How joint and muscular fluidity in the vertical stance as explored in the Gerda Alexander® Eutony method can have an influence on eyesight?”
Gerda Alexander Eutony : from muscular and joint fluidity to visual fluidity
Gerda Alexander Eutony aims at achieving a psycho-physical unity. It is based on the awareness of bodily sensations and has developed within the context of our western culture. It comprises of educational, therapeutic and artistic aspects.
« Gerda Alexander intuitively understood what neurology has since confirmed, that the different functional systems of the body mutually influence each other in a constant exchange with the environment ». (ASEGA, Association Suisse d'Eutonie Gerda Alexander / Swiss Association for Gerda Alexander Eutony)
Every human being changes his mechanical and psychological balance when he becomes aware of the bone structure and postural adjustment.
By being grounded in one' s body, other horizons open up and lead to an improved carriage of the head, which in turn will influence the axe of vision and enable the eye to find its equilibrium within its ocular space.
The muscles that tense each eye can relax and enable it to settle and find flexibility again in movement so necessary to adapt to the requirements that our eyes are faced with every day.
« The human body seems to have a tendency to reorganise itself in such a way as to enable it to put everything back into its place as soon as it is given the slightest chance » Lily Erhenfried (1896-1995)
Exercises and games adapted to looking near and far, right and left, from down up and from up down, provide a varied and rich muscular work-out, ideal for their tonus. Furthermore, the eye movement games within the orbit have an influence on vision.
Present day life, its constraints and requirements increasingly directed towards performance, lead to attitudes that are not adapted to and not suitable for the natural tonus of balance. Hence the emergence of physical blocks that creep in and disturb the normal working of the eye. For example, working long hours at the computer fixes the gaze and prevents the natural flexibility of movement.
By becoming aware of muscular tonus and adapting it to the activity of daily life, a harmony between the different tensions necessary to the balance of the natural functions of the body can emerge.
This concerns not only the eyes but also the whole body.
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Peter Ruiter |
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Eyeball Massage
In the Eye-Tools workshop “Eyeball Massage” you will learn to massage your eyeballs and strengthen your eyes. In conjunction with various methods for strengthening and making the eyes more vital, massage of the eyes will be found, in many cases, to be of great practical value. This massage is in line with the natural impulse often to “rub the eyes”. The effect will be vision improvement with relaxed eyeballs and balanced eyes muscles. It will improve your accommodation capacity . We will use the “Dr. Bate's method”, additionally the Holistic Massage Technique and “The Do-in Way”, with a lot of fun and music. The workshop will be an intensive exploration of the eyeball massage techniques. You will have many tools for good vision improvement in your own hands. You will be surprised what this can do for you! For an overview of the workshop “Eyeball Massage” look at the mind map. You will see what can be learnt in a half day workshop. The workshop leaders are from “Eye-Tools” Peter Ruiter, vision educator in Utrecht, the Netherlands and Almuth Klemm, “Augenschule” vision teacher in Berlin, Germany. Peter Ruiter will speak English and Almuth Klemm will translate to German.
Eye massage
Massage is known to be beneficial in its effects upon all parts of the body. The nerves are stimulated, the blood is stirred to greater and more active circulation, and muscles and tissues are generally stimulated to relaxation. Some forms of modified massages can be of value in the treatment for the eyes. Of course, one can not very well massage the eyes in the same way one would massage a muscle. But eyes can certainly be strengthened and vitalized by manipulation which quickens the circulation of blood and stimulates the nerves. When there is a definite acute inflammation this treatment should not be applied. Normally it gives considerable relief, not only from pain but from strain and tiredness. It should be a gentle massage. Care must be taken to observe immediate and after effects. Avoid a degree of pressure that is irritating.
It is a pleasure for the eyes to massage them daily.
Eye exercise with and resistance
With the imbalance in eye muscles, which develops in the way we live and move, accommodation can be seriously affected! You will learn e ye exercises with gentle resistance that will strengthen the muscles that have been weakened. The muscle which pulls the upper eyelid up, uses the same tendon and nerves as the muscle which turns the eyeball up. We can make them go together by working against resistance.
Massaging your eyes, they relax. It stimulates and allows good coordination of both eyes. Fun to do for you! Do the eyeball massage, play and discover the connection between hands, fingers, eyes and your heart. You will be surprise how quickly you can do it! |
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Esther Joy van der Werf |
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The Physical and Mental Tensions We Can Release to Improve Vision
Abstract:
In this workshop we will explore the typical physical and mental tensions that interfere with clear vision. As we play with letting such tensions go, we discover how eye-charts become useful tools rather than ‘a test that we keep failing'.
As a participant you will become able to demonstrate to yourself how your mind influences your sight, and you will be given simple hints to use your mind to your visual advantage!
We will explore the natural order of movement for vision, and learn to see movement in the world around us from a different point of view.
"This is the first day I can remember of NO eyestrain or eyeball soreness, despite many hours of reading & computer work. I'm doing something right! Thanks for all your help & inspiration. I'm finding as my sight clears & I let go of more tension, I am more & more friendly, relaxed, & outgoing, like a happy child."
Nancy Neff, Fishkill, New York
With some simple mental and physical tools that do not require any special equipment, you learn to transform your vision. In this way you can integrate your vision improvement practice into your daily life without needing to take time for specific exercises.
Information about the scope and possibilities of application:
This workshop is useful for anyone who likes to playfully improve vision.
If you feel you do not have time to improve vision, this workshop may change your mind!
Although the physical and mental tensions of people differ widely, the approach I use for releasing these tensions appears to be widely applicable.
If you vision is good but your eyes tend to tire easily, you will benefit from this information.
People with motion sickness are encouraged to attend.
Specification of experiences with the respective work:
Since the beginning of my career as vision educator I've been looking for ways that make vision improvement easier to incorporate into daily life, so that the excuse of ‘I have no time to do this' becomes invalid. I personally ‘do not have time for eye exercises' either, yet we are all prone to tensions, both physical and mental, and I am no exception to that. During my work day I have ample opportunity to test my theories on my own stress and vision, as well as on those of my students. The tools I pass on to participants of this workshop reflect my personal experience in what works best to reduce mental stress and physical tension, and at the same time are easiest to do.
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Fernanda Leite Ribeiro |
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"Playful choices for vision improvement".
During these 15 years of constant practice on vision therapy, I have been researching ways to break frozen vicious patterns of my clients' visual behavior as well as mine. However, constant renewal is essential to the maintenance of the acquired visual improvement, mainly when we are dealing with degenerative diseases as Macular Degeneration, for instance. We tend to hide under the comfort of the knowable, our routine. If we don't swim against the tide, we will be invited to keep a lethargic state of poor, although slightly comfortable, emotional balance. We can easily see ourselves working automatically, opposite to what we believe, which is to recruit as much attention as we can towards a conscious vision. How many times I see myself dealing with very diligent people who changed their routines, including hours of sunning and palming, but didn't show the expected improvement? Actually, a much deeper change is necessary. The answer is to face the old in a new way. This is the challenge; to refresh impressions all the time. Our internal resources for breaking habits are disturbed by the mechanicalness that perseveres if we don't strengthen attention.
In this workshop I'll show the variations of exercises developed throughout these years. The main basis is Meir Schneider's Self-Healing Method allied with practices taken from behavioral optometry , specially from Ray Gottlieb. Although I owe my background to these teachers, most exercises were developed and adapted according to my patient's needs. I ended up having nice new tools I would like to share.
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Uschi Ostermeier-Sitkowski |
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Yoga Nidra – deep relaxation for the eyes Yoga Nidra is a powerful and unique technique for deep relaxation, in stress management and therapy, to harmonize the deeper unconscious and awaken inner potential. The exercises reach far beyond normal relaxation into a meditative state. They allow deep tensions in the body to be released. During the practice of Yoga Nidra, one appears to be asleep, but the consciousness is functioning at a deeper level of awareness. In this state, the nature of your mind can be changed, and diseases and disturbances in the body, like visual defects, can be cured.
After Yoga Nidra you come out wide awake with a clear mind and a body full of energy.
Content of the workshop:
1. Meditation – finding out the areas of your vision, your body and your life, which you want to intervene at or to improve
Finding a sankalpa, a positive resolution
Meditation with Mandalas
2. Yoga and Pranayama Exercises
Chakra Asanas – Exercises to activate the Chakras
Experience the Chakras in Yoga Nidra
Special attention to the eyebrow centre – middle of the forehead, which is related to the eyes and vision
3. Yoga Nidra Exercise
Body awareness – breath awareness – visualisation - deep relaxation
- long version of Yoga Nidra (lying in absolute stillness) |
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Stefanie Hennigfeld |
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Help, Client is coming! How to prepare well for individual training
To hold Seminars on Vision Training is one sort of challenge. Individul training for children and adults over a longer period of time is another. We will work out the various steps from first anamnesis, screening and target agreement to training course and plans. Particular cases will be the basis to develop strategies for certain visual problems, discuss training material and talk about motivation as well as performance review.
For everybody who offers - or plans to offer - succesful and individual training with lasting improvement. |
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Lynn Bullock |
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An insight into vision using the Feldenkrais method
A 3 hour practical workshop to discover processes using movement and our internal capacity to synthesise kinaesthetique information and to use that in a way that will improve our visual functioning in general and thus our capacity to recognise pre memorised forms and shapes.
The Feldenkrais Method will create the context for this workshop. Lynn 's personal experience of her pathway to seeing will bring the other ideas
One of the most common worldwide ways of testing vision is to ask us to read at certain distances and be able to recognise pre memorised forms e.g. letters or numbers etc. When we don't succeed at this test most of the time glasses are prescribed or an operation to modify something in the eyes
It is more and more common knowledge that vision is much more that this capacity to recognise pre memorised shapes.
Feldenkrais suggested that the coordination of the movements of the eyes coordinate the movements of the body. What I suggest is a way to use movement to not only improve the coordination and efficiency of intentional action, but to improve our capacity to conceptualise information and thus improve our vision in the sense of recognising pre-memorised forms
The processes are designed in a way that everyday functioning will continue to assist the process and that daily « exercises » are not necessary.
Using thinking and our innate intelligence to learn as our key tools to succeeding in seeing what we need to see and when we want to see it ! |
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Sabine Nebendahl |
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The Slow Learning Child
For many children, going to school is actually a nightmare. Cases of children with learning difficulties, dyslexia, attention deficit disorder (ADD) as well as prescription of Ritalin exist in almost every class in elementary schools. For parents and children, starting school also marks the beginning of an endless marathon with therapists, very often only with limited success.
What if the visual system causes all these problems?
Children usually are tested for vision, but quite often not for proper function of motility, diplopia, accommodation and brain integration. If the basic structure of these visual functions was not acquired properly, there will always be problems in the visual system .
How can a visual trainer discover such cases and how can he/she work with them?
During the workshop the participants will compile the elements of an individual training for children in question using case studies and self-awareness sequences, covering screenings (e.g in schools ) including a complete training plan.
During the workshop the participants will compile the elements of an individual training for concerned children using case studies and self-awareness sequences, covering screenings (e.g in schools) until a complete training plan. |
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Sarah Cobb |
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AcuLight Vision Enhancement for Myopia .
Stress, trauma and toxicity upset the delicate balance of the autonomic nervous system causing an imbalance that affects how we see. AcuLight Vision Enhancement is a deep balancer of the nervous system, which controls the muscles and the eye. It can induce deep relaxation. There are also specific acu-points around the eye and on the back that have been effective in reducing nearsightedness.
After the concepts and colors are introduced, the rest of the day is spent demonstrating and practicing the vision body balance, vision triangle, face maps for myopia, and eye exercises.
The students will learn when and how to use colored light therapy and be given a chart with a technique for expanding the peripheral field. Student light kits will be available for use during the seminar or a person can bring their own.
Full day - Hands-on workshop. |
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Giorgio Ferrario |
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USING SOUND TO ACHIEVE A BETTER SIGHT
How we can learn the basis of Bates Method by using the sound
Human beings can see well only if they use central fixation.
Our mind and our brain receive imprinting on their functioning mostly through the different sense channels.
These functioning models are universal and utilizable by all sense channels for their working.
Such a principle has been recently studied and demonstrated by different sciences.
What does this mean for us who work on vision?
Using central fixation means seeing clearly through the fovea only one point at a time, while the rest of what we perceive through the vision is less clear and becomes the background of our image.
Many points of clear vision continuously changing while our eyes are moving and any other stimulus reaching the retina, more or less distant from the fovea, becoming the background of what we are looking at.
This is what naturally should happen, but how can we educate such working model in case of problems?
First of all we suggest the practice of Bates method, but also other practices respecting the basic principles of movement, relaxation, central fixation and the use of memory and imagination.
A damaged visual system, however, raises defense barriers hardly surmountable using only the visual channel. In such cases, using the principle explained above, we can use another sense channel to let the correct stimulus reach the mental mechanism supervising the functioning of all senses.
Let's take for example the sound. Let's imagine a piece of music not as an homogeneous whole of sounds (diffused vision), but as an harmonious whole of different sounds ..... perfectly distinguishable one from the other (central fixation).
In the workshop proposed I will use the sound of different pieces of music in order to acquire the right information for the correct functioning of our sense system, including the visual one.
1) As a first step we will listen to a piece of music various times in different ways.
2) Then we will try to sketch the sounds in order better perceive the single sound tracks
3) Afterwards we will use the movement of various parts of the body in order to perform the different tracks and follow them when centralizing our attention on them
4) We will subsequently use the movement of the whole body in order to perform the tracks on which we have the attention
5) We will conclude the experience listening again at the whole piece of music. At this point we should be able to move our attention on the different tracks, to perceive them clearly, to observe the smallest variation of intensity etc. exactly as it happens with our sight when we use it correctly and naturally.
At the end of the seminar all participants will be given a short brochure of the course and indications on how and when this approach with the sound can be used to teach Bates Method. |
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Mikolaj Markiewicz and Sylvia Lakeland
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The epidemic of myopia in schools. Fate or choice?
LET'S PUT OUR KNOWLEDGE TO WORK AND
FREE ®
OUR CHILDREN FROM READING GLASSES!
During the workshop we will introduce to the world community of vision therapists and teachers the FREE ® Model, a new model of approaching vision problems that is useful both for children and grown-ups.
FREE ® combines teaching the awareness of eyes ( F eeling them), ways to R elax, E xercise and E njoying them . We will explore each step of this model, showing how to counteract vision problems and how to avoid myopia.
The FREE ® approach explains why doing exercises does not help some people. It also explains why relaxation or changing our habits sometimes improves the eyes without any additional effort. This FREE ® Model has been applied by some Polish teachers for several years and now is the right moment to explore the results achieved, creating the foundations for healthy eyes all over the world.
The number of short-sighted people has increased tremendously during last decades and every year the percentage of children who use glasses is higher. Contemporary research leaves no doubt that it is school work that contributes the most to vision problems in children. Human eyes are made to look far, wide, in motion, see 3D space. Gutenberg's invention (and computers) prevents all of these. It is the high time we take some action. We can not wait for the medical world to stop this epidemic. We have all the means, knowledge, experience to work with children to reverse the epidemic.
The Model comes from many years of experience and working with children's vision in a wide range of educational institutions (see the information about presenters ). We will present all sort of techniques and dozens of simple games. There will be time for Q&A. We will also discuss the training modules for pre-schools and primary schools, created on the basis of FREE ® , easy tools that enable school teachers realize a simple program preventing children from developing myopia and stimulating their development. We strongly believe every child deserves the right to learn how to avoid myopia and other vision problems. All participants will gain new knowledge how to take care of their eyes.
And we guarantee you will enjoy it and have lots of fun J
Full day
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Meir Schneider
Vision and Bodywork
Do you know...
how an increase in blood flow in your body and a loose neck can affect vision in your eyes?
how thoughts can affect blood flow in your body?
how vision arranges your total posture?
... about the great interconnection between vision and bodywork?
Learn practical methods founded on this great interconnection to prevent vision problems!
For 37 years, Meir Schneider, Ph.D., LMT, has worked with clients with refractive errors and diseases and injuries of the eye. Important elements of his natural vision improvement programs include massage, self-massage and movement exercises. This is partly because circulation to the eyes is important, but also because of the close connection between posture and eyesight. Schneider finds time and again that eye exercises boosts the progress of his clients with problems such as pain and limited movement.
In Vision and Bodywork , you will learn to identify correlations between vision problems and physical problems of the body and how to address these correlations with specific massage techniques and eye exercises for vision improvement. These tools are beneficial to everyone and can also be a great expansion to a bodyworker's private practice. Don't miss this unique workshop!
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