DSL's FOUNDATIONAL Course:
DSL EdgeWork —
Experiential & Scientific Foundations of Yoga/Bodywork Principles & Therapeutics
Anatomy • Kinesiology • Physiology • Structural/Postural Analysis
DSL EdgeWork ... Is An Integration of Physical/Mental/Relational Yoga and Hands-On, Bio-Structural Bodywork, Based On a Wholistic Philosophy of Life and Natural Medicine
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PREMISES of DSL Sciences:
In Science presentations, DSL doesn’t say “This is a bone, and this is a muscle.” ... This is too abstract, too far removed from reality, too boring for most people. Most people learn mundane data far better when they have a context they can relate to, providing an interesting, useful framework in which they can place the otherwise boring bits of data.
So we bring the abstract into the concrete: ... When a new Student or Client walks into your studio, how do you SEE and KNOW what’s happening in their unique bodymind? How do you KNOW the dynamics of particular asana or exercises and the affects on their body? How do you practice the 1st Law of Healing: Do No Harm by not causing injury? How do you then proceed to maximize their results, while facilitating preventive care?
One clue is that you must FEEL, as much as possible, what they are experiencing. The more you can recreate in your own body what is happening for them, ther more you'll know what EXACTLY is going on in his or her body.
We look at real life situations — such as a slouched posture or low back pain — and work backward from there, so you have Real World Contexts in which to understand the Sciences, a far more effective way to learn. Your understandings of bones, muscles, joints, fascia and nerves will emerge from the ground up as you learn to see and understand overall function and dysfunction.
Course Description:
Learn Yoga Sciences while experiencing the Principles of Maximizing Results and Minimizing Injuries in Physical/Mental Yoga. Learn the DSL Basics of How to Structurally Analyze and Posturally Evaluate your students and private Clients, seeing their unique structure, knowing what they should be doing and avoiding, and understanding how yoga asana work in the healthy and not so healthy. ... How exercise (strength, endurance and cardiovascular training) fits into therapeutic situations. ... Learn to use hands-on work to assist psycho/neuro/muscular and myofascial release in asana.
This Is Done In the Context of Learning:
1.) All About Muscle Tension — Its Causes, Effects & Principles of Reversal
2.) Physiological Differences, and Functional Interactions between, nerve, muscle, tendon, ligament, fascia, periosteum, bone & joints.
3.) DSL's FUNdamentals of Yoga & Exercise Principles —
De-Constructing Yoga from the Inside Out — The Elements of How the BodyMind functions and what makes an Asana work.
4.) DSL's CORE/Structural Yoga — Where Effortless Great
Posture & Fluid, Energetic Movement actually come from,
and how to restore or maximize it
5.) Applying DSL FUNdamentals & CORE Principles to a complete DSL Let-Go Yoga series and Classical Hatha Yoga
6.) Apply DSL to Body Mechanics, Movement Therapy & Tai Chi/Chi Kung Exercise
7.) Integrating DSL's Hands-On, Bio-Structural Bodywork Techniques with Therapeutic Asana
8.) Basic Internal & External Ergonomics — Arranging a work or living space for best maintenace of great posture and fluid movement. — Then discovering how to use Yoga to accommodate your ergonomic set-up.
OPTIONAL Weekend:
9.) Basics of DSL's Hands-On, Structurally Oriented Bodywork
Course Outline:
Bearing in mind that the DSL approach requires HUNDREDS of hours to get really competent at, this program will start you on the path of knwoing what most people do not about working with and healing your clients and students.
Here is What You'll Learn:
• The Foundational Course will focus on the Core Postural muscles that afffect the widest range of needs and conditions of the most people
• Advanced Structural Anatomy — Muscles, Bones, Fascia & Joints; the Components of Posture & Movement; where they are and how they work — in the Context of Real Life situations
• Structural Analysis — Physics & Geometry, especially the influence of gravity and internal water pressure in posture, movement and asana — Stability via Fluidity, NOT Rigidity
• Functional & Postural Kinesiology — Influence of each muscle on bones and overall structure, posture and movement — Their interplay with each other and with gravity and water-pressure — and the Functions of fascia
• Neuromuscular & Myofascial Physiology — Mechanisms, especially nerves, that make the structural components work together, or not
• Autonomic Physiology — Sympathetic & Parasympathetic control of volitional and healing/immune function
• PsychoMuscular Integration & Release Techniques — The Neurophysiology of Consciousness and the interactive control systems of the BodyMind — How the Mind, the Brain, the Nerves and the Muscles converge and interact and create the Vehicle of Self-Expression
• Musculoskeletal/Neuromuscular/Myofascial Pathology — What makes it all NOT work. Understanding the little known but wide range of conditions and symptoms that arise primarily from Chronic, Excess Muscle Tension
• More on the Mind and Emotions and their interactionwith and influence on all of the above
The Sciences will be studied in the context of DSL's Principles of Posture, Movement & Therapeutics in Yoga & BodyWork, including, but not limited to:
• Why NO Pain Means MORE Gain
• How Yoga tends to Compress the Joints (but doesn't have to)
• Muscle Contraction — The Short & the Long of It
• Nature of Relaxation/De-Contraction of Muscles
• Working WITH, not against, the Breath
• Why Muscles are BOTH Yin AND Yang, not just Yang
• Why Fascia is BOTH Yin AND Yang, not just Yin
• Where Great Posture & Fluid Movement Really Come From
• TIME and its Impact on Yoga & BodyWork practices
• What Yoga can do that Bodywork cannot, and vice versa
• How they compliment each other, including ...
• Using light to moderate DSL Edge-Touch in correcting and/or assisting student's yoga postures
• We'll also look at many Myth-Conceptions in Yoga & BodyWork such as:
• Why Fascia/Connective Tissue are NOT a primary source of postural distortion, and what IS
• How many yoga teachings are (inadvertantly) actually making people ... and themselves ... WORSE
• How Thinking and Feeling are NOT, at their roots, truly different things, and are NOT necessarily incompatible with each other
Course Instructor: David Scott Lynn (DSL)
A Yoga teacher since 1976, and a Structural Bodyworker since 1981, David has done extensive, ground-breaking research and development in the Therapeutic Applications of Yoga & Bodywork as an integrated system. His hands-on Private Practice specializes in, and has a 70 to 80 per cent success rate with, those who had been given up on by both orthodox AND alternative practitioners. Nearly all of his principles are based on well-accepted, orthodox, published scientific research. — In all four corners of America, and many places in between, people say no one does what DSL does, and it is amazingly effective. ... And, it makes total sense.
READ the Many TESTIMONIALS on DSL Here
Course Format:
The Course is presented through experiential learning exercises, lecture, class discussion and group practice to ensure the student understands not only the theory but its practice and application. It is designed to help the students actually integrate their learning into their own personal practice as well as their teaching or therapeutic practice.
The Foundational Course is divided into a Four Phase Intensive.
- • The 1st Phase is 1 day, 6 hours.
• The 2nd, 3rd & 4th Phases are 2 or 3 days, 18 hours each weekend.- • The Total Course Time is 60 Classroom hours PLUS Breaks.
- • A 5th, Optional 2 Day, 18 hour weekend for those interested in learning the Basics of the DSL approach to Hands-On, Bio-Structural Bodywork is available.
- • In certain programs, One Private Hands-On Session with David is included in the cost.
PHASE 1:
3:00 PM to 10:00 PM: 6 Classroom hours
Four 90 minute classroom segments with Three 20 minute Breaks.
This Introductory Day includes 3 talks on 1) the little known and pervasive Effects of Muscle Tension, 2) New Perspectives on bodymind function, and 3) Principles of Reversing Muscle Tension. There wil also be a 1 hour Talk on the development of DSL EdgeWork. Remaining time is an Overview & Orientation for the Foundational Course. -- For those who decide, or think, they want to continue with the Course, David will stay and meet with those individuals.
PHASES 2 through 4:
Each Day is:
10:00 AM - 5:00 PM: 6 Classroom hours
Four 90 minute classroom segments with Three 20 minute Breaks.
5:00 PM - 6:30 PM: 90 minute Dinner Break
6:30 PM - 10:00 PM: 3 Classroom hours
Two 90 minute classroom segments with one 30 minute Break.
• Participants bring their own snacks and beverages for breaks.
• Pure Water, Tea & Coffee will be provided.
• Each Phase can be presented on weekends or during the week, depending on scheduling needs of the particular group. It is recommended that each Phase be presented no more than two weeks apart.
IF INCLUDED: Each Student will receive a 4 hour Private, Hands-On Bodywork & Yoga Session with David after Phase 1 of the program, schedule permitting.
ALL former participants have stated that this is where the work really comes together, even if they have no plans to be a hands-on bodyworker. ... If necessary, David will come in prior to the 1st Phase to perform sessions if students' schedules require it and it is feasible.
The IDEAL SCENARIO:
1.) DSL Presents Day 1. ...
2.) During the following week, each student receives a 4 hour Private Session with David. ...
3.) Then the Phase 2, 2-Day Workshop. ...
4.) Day after the Phase 2, 2-Day Workshop: David will lead 2 DSL Let-Go Yoga classes, at 10:00 AM and 7:00 PM. Workshop participants should plan on attending one or both classes. — This helps participants experience more fully how to integrate all the details learned over the weekend into a yoga class or personal practice.
5.) In the following week, those who wish to receive a 2nd Private session — and most do — do so at an additional charge. ...
6.) Then the Phase 3, 2-Day Workshop. ...
7.) Day after the Phase 3, 2-Day Workshop: David will again lead 2 DSL Let-Go Yoga classes, at 10:00 AM and 7:00 PM. Workshop participants should plan on attending one or both classes. — Further integration of the practice.
8.) 3rd Private Session for those interested. ...
9.) Final, 3rd Phase, 2-Day Workshop.
The Time Interval between workshops will be negotiated far enough ahead of time so David can plan his overall schedule accordingly.
Prior to the program, if possible, or at some time, or several times, during the program, David can present the 3 Hour version of his Talk on Muscle Tension for the General Public. This helps in a number of ways. ... First, it helps educate potential or existing Clients of the workshop participants. This makes them better students and clients. ... Second, it can be used as a marketing event to attract new prospects as yoga students and/or bodywork clients. ... Third, it helps orient workshop participants to developing their own public presentations to expand awareness of the value of muscle tension management as well as yoga and bodywork. ... Finally, the sponosring organization develops a reputation for being on the leading edge of such issues.
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