MAUREEN FLEMING COMPANY 

ELASTXX® Certification Program

In this workshop intensive, Fleming shares her ‘inside out’ training that enables you to access deep energetic states to move the body… a completely innovative and pioneering method. She will guide you to your deepest creative core, helping you discover and reveal the transcendent that resides in physical form. Her discipline imbues catharsis and alchemy.

This deep, regenerative inner work allows for a more complete realization of your personal and creative vision and is geared for dancers, directors, actors, singers, butoh enthusiasts, teachers and anyone interested in discovering their movement potential.

YOU WILL LEARN:

FLEMING ELASTXX® - Certification Training: an original training method that initiates movement and voice from the innermost layer of muscles. Using a patented elastic exercise device, invented by Maureen Fleming, strength and flexibility are developed through the targeting of core muscles, in particular, the psoas.

– THE 10 IMAGES - transformative imagery that helps you move past the physical form and create a useful alignment that can be applied to all movement and vocal training.

– MOVEMENT MASSAGE – power points combined with effective stretching techniques to increase joint flexibility and unlock energy flow.

– HOW TO HARNESS - the body’s movement potential in Fleming's daily exercise practice that supports and extends the life of all performance training as well as everyday movement.

Fleming Elastxx® (US Patent 2020)

When the Psoas muscle is strengthened with an awareness of the diaphragm pushing down, the vocal channel can open, creating sustainable and regenerative movement and sound.

The sound can serve as a thermometer for the open internal channel in movement, allowing the practitioner to ‘hear’ the correct alignment. This process can lead to the development of an open and flexible human physical instrument in both sound and movement thus leading to the creation of sustainable movement and voice for performance and daily life.

Images that ‘drive’ the muscle to ‘drive the gravity’ moving up and down the body can aid in this process. Many of the images used by              Maureen Fleming can be found in the spiritual writings of the great mystics from Rumi to Yeats to Ohno and also in the great religions of the world.

A compliment to any training system, FLEMING ELASTXX^® TEACHER CERTIFICATION is available ONLINE. Please contact Maureen Fleming Company at Maureen.Fleming@fulbrightmail.org for details. 

FLEMING ELASTXX^® is an original physical training system and a self-sustaining tool for metamorphosis and self directed physical change, based in an understanding of the body’s ability to regenerate the mind. This original training method was created by acclaimed New York City choreographer and performance artist Maureen Fleming. Stemming from her in depth personal research to overcome a childhood injury, Maureen Fleming shares techniques from her daily practice that maintains the flexibility and strength necessary for her to perform her unique movement vocabulary. Fleming Elastxx is accessible to anyone interested in discovering his or her movement potential.

The technique uses imagery to initiate movement in low impact resistance training while strengthening the Psoas muscle with an awareness of the diaphragm pushing down to open the vocal channel to create sustainable and regenerative movement and sound patterns. The sound serves as a thermometer for the open internal channel in movement, allowing the practitioner to ‘hear’ correct alignment. This process can lead to the development of an open and flexible human physical instrument thus leading to the creation of sustainable movement and voice for performance and daily life.

Images ‘drive’ the muscle which in turn ‘drives the gravity’ moving up and down the body aiding in this process of developing efficient regenerative movement patterns. This deep, regenerative inner work allows for a more complete realization of a personal and creative vision for directors, actors, dancers, singers, yoga enthusiasts, therapists and anyone interested in discovering their movement potential through an efficient and integrated training program that becomes a part of daily life. Participation in FLEMING ELASTXX^® Teacher Training Certification Programs allows students to expand their own personal movement potential while preparing them to effectively share their knowledge and enhance the movement potential of others.

For more information on FLEMING ELASTXX^® Training Programs and Teacher Certification, contact Maureen Fleming Company at 917.575.4969  or Maureen.Fleming@fulbrightmail.org 

TESTIMONIALS: 

"FLEMING ELASTXX^® took away deep lower back pain and broke up scar tissue in a way that nothing before has. My ability to swim competitively returned. I've integrated this important tool into my 'Manhattan Applied Physiology' with repeated amazing results with my clients. This daily practice is a breakthrough for empowering clients to monitor lowgrade pain without medication."

-Janet Nelson Director of Manhattan Applied Physiology           

Success Story by Alexx Shilling

I came to Fleming technique as though following an instinctual directive towards healing and was still astonished by the efficacy and depth that I found in Maureen's work. As a professional dancer, choreographer, Pilates and Yoga teacher, I found the trends of breaking movement down anatomically had left me and my colleagues in a place of near paralysis; of understanding the body in a way that kept us from moving with our full potential and whole spirit.

Maureen introduced me to the 10 images and imagery that clarified the intention of my breath. Her brilliant addition of sound and vocal work as a way to connect with the psoas and open the body further allowed me to find a once again and more free, integrated body. All of my injuries began to subside and by the 5th day of the workshop, having arrived with severe plantar fascitis and heel spurs, I was jumping! Without pain! I felt elated by the work and instantly saw parallels to my own teaching.

Since that first workshop, I became certified to teach Fleming technique and now combine it with my dancing, Pilates and Yoga. My private clients embraced the work immediately as they could feel changes in their body after just an hour of practicing. The professional dancers that I train connect with the imagery and find Fleming technique combined with mindful Pilates (also called Radiant Movement) to be a deeply effective preparation for dancing and performing. I personally use it to prepare for rehearsals, technique class and as a daily movement practice.

Many of my clients have discovered significant reduction in their stress levels and anxiety as a result of practicing Fleming technique along with the Radiant Movement. Clients have found healing and greater mobility from spinal conditions, shoulder injuries, plantar fascitis and heel spurs, neck and jaw conditions, arthritis and hip conditions as well as increasing their flexibility (at all ages!), lung and breath capacity and building core and pelvic strength.

My movement philosophy has been significantly affirmed and strengthened since finding Fleming technique. We have an infinite amount of potential from which to move from and in turn, to more fully enjoy moving not only without pain, but with joy and the possibility of regeneration. I am continuously fascinated by this potential and the body's own intelligence and ability to heal. The proof is in the practice, "the body never lies" (Martha Graham).            

-Alexx Shilling Director of Radiant Movement

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USE AT YOUR OWN RISK: This website is for informational purposes only. Consult a physician before performing this or any exercise program. It is your responsibility to evaluate your own medical and physical condition, or that of your clients, and to independently determine whether to perform, use or adapt any of the information or content on this website. Further, when purchasing any product from this website, you assume all responsibility for loss, damage, or injury when using any of the products, and assume all responsibility for proper, safe installation and use of all products. Any exercise program may result in injury. By voluntarily undertaking any exercise displayed on this website, you assume the risk of any resulting injury to yourself or others.