Dr. AJ Mannion
 DAcHM, L.Ac, Dipl.OM 
 

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AJ offers workshops in specialty topics for studio owners interested in providing in-house professional development opportunities for their faculty.

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Healthy Flexibility:
This workshop is designed to help teachers develop sensitivity and precision in their ability to identify and facilitate the release of tension patterns in the connective tissue of dancers through verbal cues and assisted stretching.  Connective tissue patterning can restrict strength and mobility even when the musculoskeletal system is healthy and strong, and is often the culprit behind chronic tension/pain/immobility problems.

Studios can select a particular "target area" of the body on which an intrinsic strengthening/stretching regimen will be implemented. It is recommended to pick one that the studio's dancers overall struggle with.

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 This workshop includes:

1. Lecture - The "Shape" of Fascia  (for dancers!)

2. Awareness - guided exercises to deepen your sensitivity to subtle tissue changes

3. Demonstration -  identifying tension patterns (with a willing participant!)

4. Partner Exercises - how to identify tension patterns

5. Stretching - hands on guidance to approaching self and partner stretching

6. Strengthening - a thorough, intrinsic strengthening regiment focusing on a body region of choice 

7. Stretching - a deeply mobilizing and health-enhancing stretch session for the area previously strengthened

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Pricing:

2 Hour Workshop - $600 + gas/tolls

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