Bio Masha Kovacs
Masha is a yogi, rock climber and nature lover currently residing between Portugal and Spain. She teaches her unique and transformative classes and retreats across Europe and was part of the Sivananda Yoga team in Teacher Training Courses in France and India. More recently, she has made a commitment to yearly trips to India to study with her teacher at KPJAYI in Mysore.
Masha’s teaching offers a heart-opening, invigorating and experiential practice, grounded with a focus on both physical and energetic alignment. Yoga, when practiced with this holistic awareness becomes fluid movement therapy.
Her own practice and therefore teaching encompasses Asana, Pranayama, Relaxation, healthy diet, positive thinking & Meditation.
Masha is a certified Feldenkrais Awareness Through Movement teacher and is the local organizer of the Feldenkrais Teacher Training in Portugal.
She is continuously seeking to fine-tune her knowledge of anatomy, alignment and the mind-body connection.
Masha speaks 9 languages almost fluently and enjoys teaching in multiple languages.
FELDENKRAIS
The Feldenkrais method is based on the way humans learn movement, how consciousness and thinking develops, how we perceive, and how we learn to relate to our environment.
Using precise and
complex techniques, the Feldenkrais method uses the innate intelligence of the
human nervous system to reach higher levels of function in all these areas.
The structure of
the lessons promotes the revival of our perceptive capacity and the discovery
of lightness, efficiency and elegance in movement. They expand your abilities
to act with precision, strength and spontaneity and increase your learning
capacity.
Moshe Feldenkrais
developed two learning modalities for his method:
Awareness Through
Movement – the group modality - and
Functional
integration – an individual modality.
In Awareness
Through Movement, movement is explored in a playful, easy way by using variations.
The participants are verbally guided to perform specific movement sequences. Individual perception is refined, individual movement
patterns are recognized and supplemented by alternative possibilities.
Functional Integration
is geared to the individual needs of the learning person, who is moved by the
Feldenkrais Practitioner. In this way, patterns can be recognized more quickly and
functionality can be improved. The precise and complex techniques promote a
direct reorganization of the nervous system and have a lasting effect.
Aim:
You refine your
self-awareness and learn to recognize patterns, limitations or blockages
You improve your coordination
and become stronger, more efficient, light and clear in your movements
You reduce chronic
pain, tension and stress
You improve the
expressiveness and harmony of your movements
You become
stronger, increase your learning ability and become more conscious
You exercise
mental, emotional and physical flexibility
You can find a list of resources and free downloads on the page of Instituto Feldenkrais.
