Free Breathexperience™ Class for Seniors at Sonoma Valley Hospital

BREATHEXPERIENCE™:

"Growing Older with Sensuality, Vitality, and Grace"

a FREE Class on Monday April 3rd, 2006

with:

Margot Biestman
Director of the Marin-Sonoma Center
of the Middendorf institute for Breathexperience ™

We turn not older with years, but newer every day.
-— Emily Dickinson

Growing older with breathexperience ™ is very different from getting old. We explore how breath that we allow to come and go on its own—without our imposing on it—can move through our body with ease and comfort. In this class we learn through simple sitting, standing, and stretching sequences to sense breath movement in our body.

As we bring our presence to our experience of breath, we can become aware of ourselves as sensual, graceful, and with vitality. We can grow to love our body and our Self, with less need to "fix" something to try and make us look younger. We gain a sense of health and well-being, and often feel youthful along with our wisdom.

Presented by:
The Integrative Medicine Program at Sonoma Valley Hospital, which includes complimentary approachesfocused on healing the whole person—body, mind and spirit.

WHEN: 7-8 p.m. on Monday April 3rd, 2006
WHERE: Central Conference Room at Sonoma Valley Hospital, 347 Andrieux Street, Sonoma, CA 95476

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION:
Tel: (707) 938—3930
E-mail: margot@breathexperience.com
http://www.breathexperiencemargot.com



ABOUT MARFGOT BIESTMAN:
Margot Biestman, Director of the Marin-Sonoma Center of the Middendorf Institute for Breathexperience™ is an internationally recognized breath practitioner and teacher/trainer. She is a member of the teaching/training team at the Middendorf Institute for Breathexperience™ in Berkeley.

She was one of the founding members and former president of The Breath Center of San Francisco, a non-profit organization for education of the public to Middendorf Breathwork. She has a private practice and conducts classes and workshops, such as: Breathexperience™ in Everyday Life, Balance, Flexibility, and Mobility of the Spine, Breathexperience in Relationship™, which supports communication, clarifying, resolving conflicts, deepening, and transforming relationships.

Margot participated in a recent break-through research study conducted at the University of California San Francisco that has shown breathexperience™ to be effective in treating patients with chronic low-back pain. The study was the first ever conducted at an U.S. academic medical institution. She has recently been interviewed on NBC and CBS television news programs for her work in breathexperience™ and chronic-low back pain. Margot is also an author and artist, and is a new resident of Sonoma.