Albuquerque, NM 87112
(505) 266 - 2711
cornelia@nmia.com
Can you imagine being totally
familiar with your body and feel comfortable? To sense your self in
contact with the world around you, with other people as well as with
your environment? To be able to maintain your center? To sense how the
floor supports your feet? How you can take a deep breath at any moment,
like right now - while reading this? How does this make you feel?
Cornelia Sachs uses
movement with
awareness to come back in touch with ourselves, to feel the skin again
and to be at home in the body. The skin is our largest organ and to get
back in touch with it is essential to be comfortable with oneself.
Cornelia's path to teaching this has been a long one.She started out studying law
and
economics while working as an
export/import specialist for technical equipment in Germany. The focus
of her life changed when she was diagnosed with bone cancer 1980. After
the loss of her leg, she did not take for granted anymore to have a
body
and just to be able to move without thinking about it. Confident that
she can
adapt to this new situation with some help, she began to explore many
different disciplines of body-mind work.
She moved to
Kopenhagen, Denmark, to study Eutony with Gerda Alexander
herself. After 6 months, she left the school to first get her footing
back in her day-to-day life and to adjust to the life with an
artificial leg. She moved to Berlin, Germany and studied Yoga with
Gerlinde Fiedler while working an administrative job. For two years,
she also took traininig workshops with the German Yoga Teacher
Association (BDY). 1983, she started working with Dr. Wolfgang
Schultz-Zehden, an
optometrist, teaching a combination of Yoga with Bates eye exercises to
his patient and writing the exercise part of his book: "Auge und
Psychosomatik" (published 1986).
Cornelia continued to learn a German version of naturopathy and passed the "Heilpraktiker" Exam in 1984. The birth of her daughter Nora in 1985 led her to Munich where she worked in a city project at the "Beratungsstelle für Natürliche Geburt und Elternsein" teaching birth preparation classes as well as support groups for young mothers.
After attending a workshop "Tribal Ways of Living with Children" with Carol Lee Sanchez in Germany in 1989, she and Nora found their way to Albuquerque, New Mexico early in 1991. At first, Cornelia worked as administrator in a chiropractor's office for several years. She started to take Tai Chi lessons at the Chinese Culture Center in March of 1993 which she continues till today. In the spring of 1994, she began her Feldenkrais® Professional Training Program in Santa Fe. Since 1997, she has been certified to teach the Feldenkrais Method® and maintaines her private practice in Abuquerque where she teaches Awareness Through Movement® classes and workshops as well as Functional Integration® lessons. Since 2005, Cornelia returned to her studies with Eutonie-Gerda-Alexander® School in Germany. In 2006, she attended a workshop of internationally known dancer and movement teacher Amos Hetz and was so impressed by his teaching that she is now working on the organization of a workshop for him to teach in the US in 2009.
Through her extensive personal experiences, Cornelia has learned to listen to the body, to her own body as well as to her clients'. She can communicate deep insights for grounding emotions and experiences in the physical body, to release old movement patterns and tensions and to find new possibilities. This enables her to accompany her clients on their journey back home into closer contact with their body, towards easier movement, better balance and towards their goals and dreams. In her classes, she uses movement as a medium for her students to explore their patterns and habits and to find new alternatives for moving, sensing, feeling and acting.
If you want to contact Cornelia, please send her e-mail to cornelia@nmia.com.
Other links:Cornelia continued to learn a German version of naturopathy and passed the "Heilpraktiker" Exam in 1984. The birth of her daughter Nora in 1985 led her to Munich where she worked in a city project at the "Beratungsstelle für Natürliche Geburt und Elternsein" teaching birth preparation classes as well as support groups for young mothers.
After attending a workshop "Tribal Ways of Living with Children" with Carol Lee Sanchez in Germany in 1989, she and Nora found their way to Albuquerque, New Mexico early in 1991. At first, Cornelia worked as administrator in a chiropractor's office for several years. She started to take Tai Chi lessons at the Chinese Culture Center in March of 1993 which she continues till today. In the spring of 1994, she began her Feldenkrais® Professional Training Program in Santa Fe. Since 1997, she has been certified to teach the Feldenkrais Method® and maintaines her private practice in Abuquerque where she teaches Awareness Through Movement® classes and workshops as well as Functional Integration® lessons. Since 2005, Cornelia returned to her studies with Eutonie-Gerda-Alexander® School in Germany. In 2006, she attended a workshop of internationally known dancer and movement teacher Amos Hetz and was so impressed by his teaching that she is now working on the organization of a workshop for him to teach in the US in 2009.
Through her extensive personal experiences, Cornelia has learned to listen to the body, to her own body as well as to her clients'. She can communicate deep insights for grounding emotions and experiences in the physical body, to release old movement patterns and tensions and to find new possibilities. This enables her to accompany her clients on their journey back home into closer contact with their body, towards easier movement, better balance and towards their goals and dreams. In her classes, she uses movement as a medium for her students to explore their patterns and habits and to find new alternatives for moving, sensing, feeling and acting.
If you want to contact Cornelia, please send her e-mail to cornelia@nmia.com.
• ExplorMotion classes
• video documentary produced by Cornelia Sachs on and with Amputees
• more information on the work of Amos Hetz
• Wertheimer Klassentreffen 30.5. - 1.6. 2008 - DiBoGym 72
"Eliminate the old habit of listening to others about your own comfort and convenience. - The object of this learning is to remove outside authority from your inner life. "
Moshe
Feldenkrais, 1977