Jump Rhythm Workshop: Standing Down Straight (Part 2)

RELAX, then SWING!

Standing Down Straight® Workshops With Billy Siegenfeld

Join us in exploring the Standing Down Straight® Technique — a method of voice-and-movement training that helps us do the tasks of everyday living without causing strain or injury to the body. How? By guiding us to use life’s most effective and cost-free aid to healing and strengthening the body: gravity-directed relaxation.

Part 1: Explore the joy of feeling like a kid again by STANDING DOWN STRAIGHT® (SDS).

Created and developed by Billy Siegenfeld, SDS is an anatomically fact-based, relaxation-powered approach to both performing arts training and body-mind health. It guides us to use the RELAXING force of GRAVITY rather than the STRAINING force of MUSCLE to move and vocalize with less effort and more energy, whether onstage or in daily life.

Part 2: Think science meets art.

By fusing nature-made relaxation with human-made imagination, SDS lets us partner up with friends and use our joined eyes, hands, and rhythm-singing voices to groove together to that great joy-making music called swing. Think Ella. Think Sinatra. Think yourself, not caring about today’s news, only about what the kid in you feels like.

Workshops take place at 21ten Theatre in Portland. Recommended for 15+. Contact Jordan@JumpRhythm.org for questions.

Learn more at https://jumprhythm.org/.