About the Course

By the end of the course, you will have a nuanced understanding and a felt sense of a multidimensional set of our favourite FAMO exercises, ready to use in your personal practice and with clients. Experience has shown that the movements and techniques are well-suited for group classes, personalised training, and therapeutic settings, using body-minded movement to enhance physical functionality and psycho-emotional wellbeing.

While all myofascial meridians are considered, special emphasis is placed on the Superficial Back Line and Superficial Front Line due to their essential roles in postural balance, movement production, and creating a feeling of grounded lift in the body-mind. Among the 27 primary exercises are the 14 used for posture-based movement strategies in the FAMO Body Reading & Rebalancing course.

Learning Outcomes

By participating in this course, you will:

• Learn and experience multidimensional exercises anchored in sound principles of integral fascia-focused anatomy and body-mind holism
• Gain a solid understanding of exercises ideally suited for posture-based movement programs
• Understand the ‘why’ behind exercise execution, including applied training techniques, breathing patterns, variations, adaptations, and the use of massage tools and supportive props
• Grasp and embody the ‘how’ of exercise execution and teaching
• Discover the diverse, nuanced use of massage tools that goes beyond the obvious and generic
• Comprehend how fascial movement qualities are deliberately utilised, trained, and enhanced with specific exercises and sequences
• Understand how focusing on specific myofascial meridians influences and enriches movement aims and positive outcomes
• Explore all myofascial meridians in practice, with a special emphasis on the workings and the somatic and psycho-emotional benefits of the Superficial Back Line and Superficial Front Line
• Experience and observe the profound effects of FAMO Fascia Movement on the body-mind
• Gain a new repertoire of exercises to add a novel dimension to your own practice, your classes, personalised training, bodywork, or therapy sessions
• Vitalise your body-mind in the moment

Course Highlights

For a purely somatic, non-analytical immersion into FAMO Practice 1, each course day begins with a master class that seamlessly weaves in the day’s repertoire. These exercises are then broken down and explored in detail to prepare you to teach.

FAMO Practice 1 exercises comprises:

• Differentiated and integrated exercises in all body positions
• Slow and deep, dynamic, and rhythmic, stimulating and invigorating, strengthening and melting exercises as well as contrasting movement sequences
• Exercises variations and adaptations that alter focus, intensity, and/or body position
• Exercise variations with and without massage tools

Each exercise is experienced and discussed in terms of:

• Movement execution
• Exercise aims and benefits
• Functional myofascial anatomy
• Utilisation of fascial movement qualities
• Applied training techniques
• Use and advantages of massage tools or supportive props
• Purposeful sequencing

Self-Contained & Part of FAMO Certification

FAMO Practice 1 is a self-contained course and also a module within the FAMO certification program. It can be attended once both the Anatomy Trains in Motion and FAMO Focus have been completed.

Prerequisite

Mandatory Literature

The accompanying book for the course will be available on various Amazon stores.

FAMO Practice 1
Multidimensional Whole-Body Movement

By Karin Gurtner