ZOGA Movement Introduction - Warsaw 20-22.09.2024 course conducted in English

Zoga Movement Introduction - Introductory Workshops

Training Location:

Golden Floor Centrum, al. Jerozolimskie 65/79, Warszawa

Class Hours:

Day 1: 09:00-17:00, Day 2: 09:00 – 17:00, Day 3: 09:00 – 17:00

Instructor:

Wojciech Cackowski

This course is intended for:

physiotherapists, movement and manual therapists, movement and fitness trainers, yoga and fitness instructors, as well as students.

Number of instructional hours:

28 instructional hours

Note: Course in English without translation.

For participants not from Poland: please don't sign up through our website.  To sign up for the course, send an e-mail to: biuro@movuto.pl. Please provide us with the following information:

• The training you want to attend
• First name and last name
• Phone number
• Your address

The course price is 650 euro.

About the method:

Zoga was developed through the creator Wojciech Cackowski's decade-long exploration of possibilities for changing the structure and function of the human body. Confronting scoliosis, he sought methods capable of alleviating issues associated with a body exhibiting a distinct scoliotic pattern.

Structural Integration Anatomy Trains, Osteopathic visceral therapies, joint work, and precise utilization of yoga asanas became the path to freeing himself from scoliosis-related problems and significantly reducing postural patterns.

Combining these experiences resulted in a method focused on making changes in the spatial organization of the body, leading to the development of a more efficient postural pattern that balances itself in gravity. Zoga aims to provide freedom and awareness of movement and posture in 4D, challenging all possible body relationships to gravity and creating multiple global and local movement vectors available in the body. It uses the map of Anatomy Trains to guide biomechanical interventions around the tensegrity fascial system. Yoga asanas serve as functional tests and positions inducing various pulling vectors between different fascial layers. Zoga is designed to support Structural Integration goals and create lasting changes in the musculofascial organization of the human body.

Zoga can take the form of:

• individual self-exploration journey (self-education process) based on educational materials and personal experience;
• group movement sessions with a Zoga Movement Practitioner;
• one-on-one sessions with a professionally trained Zoga Movement Therapist.

Zoga in practice teaches:

• Skills to read the body and identify restrictions in tissue gliding;
• Use and control movement to achieve effective and balanced functioning in gravity;
• Achieve balance and minimize the amount of energy used to remain at rest and in motion;
• Attain greater body balance in movement and how forces are distributed within the fascial system.

During the 3-day training, you will learn:

• How individual fascial layers mutually influence each other;
• The course of fascial planes according to the Anatomy Trains concept;
• How specific positions affect tissue tension and gliding;
• How to create new intervention strategies based on visual postural and functional assessment;
• How to help your students overcome limitations in their body movement;
• How to manually intervene in training/sessions.

Training Schedule:

DAY I:

• Welcome participants.

• Introductory material, theory of the ZOGA concept.

• Asanas as functional tests of the sagittal plane.

• Lunch break.

• Utilizing Structural Integration Anatomy Trains principles in ZOGA Movement, Directionality of tissue movement.

• Organized movement around the sagittal plane, Superficial Front and Back Lines.

DAY II:

• Fascial mechanics, the influence of individual fascial layers on each other, Relative movement within the body.

• Sagittal plane - manual techniques.

• Lunch break.

• Intervention and analysis of frontal plane movement.

• Working on balance in the frontal plane in motion. Practice.

DAY III:

• Examples of using postural and functional assessment in creating treatment strategies for the transverse plane. Practice.

• Spiral movement and preparation for opening the body center.

• Lunch break.

• Deep Tape, movement, and manual work.

• Questions. Conclusion.

Participants will receive:

• professionally prepared script in Polish
• the right to participate in practical and theoretical classes
• certificate of course completion
• VAT invoice (via email - after completing the training)

Instructor:

Wojciech Cackowski

Wojtek has been fascinated with movement, sports, and bodywork his entire life. It is his greatest passion to study and develop holistic approaches to the treatment of the human body. He applies this passion, along with his deep understanding of anatomy and manual therapy techniques, to the workshops he teaches around the world.

Since completing his degree in sports education and physiotherapy, Wojtek became a board-certified ATSI structural integration practitioner, as well as a Certified Anatomy Trains Teacher for Tom Myers, a ScarWork Certified Teacher for Sharon Wheeler, and the Founder of the Zoga Movement concept. Furthermore, Wojtek is actively involved in multiple educational projects, including Myofascial work with Disabled Children, the Zoga Face Integration, Certification Programs for ATSI, and other projects that connect multiple medical specializations.

He also sits on the Board of Polish Manual Medicine Association and is a Member of Exercise in Medicine Poland. Wojtek is a proud father of two, currently residing and practicing in Poland.