Ingrid Kecerin Kasumagić

Phone:00 385 91 506 9505

Education:
– 2002. Faculty of Kinesiology, Zagreb

Work experience:
from 2005 onwards: Recreation Manager, Zagreb Sports Association – “Sports for All” programs: exercise in local self-government, Nordic walking, Nordic skiing, alpine skiing

from 2013 onwards: Trainer of the Movement Intelligence program

2017 onwards: Mind Body Study Academy Feldenkrais Practitioner

“Linking Thought and Movement for Continuous Improvement”

from 2019 onwards: external associate at the Faculty of Kinesiology in Zagreb

Consultations, courses, programs, workshops:
As a practitioner of the Feldenkrais and Movement Intelligence method, she conducts consultations and individual and group exercises with people of different ages and health conditions.

As an organizer and instructor of certified, internationally recognized courses from the Movement Intelligence program, she leads the following programs:

Bones for life – basic program of exercises
Bones for life on Chairs / Kosti za život – exercise program on chairs
Walk for life / Hodanje za život – a program of exercises to improve natural movement skills in nature and indoors

Movement solutions – Solutions for movement disorders Organizer of international workshops:

2012. Learn to move with minimal effort with the Feldenkrais method
(instructor Dr. Mara Fusero)

since 2013 twice a year: Feldenkrais workshops and Anat Baniel method/ Workshops for experts, parents and children with developmental disabilities (Feldenkrais and Anat Baniel instructors Nancy Aberle and Lynn Bullock, and 10 practitioners, over 900 hours of work with children and parents)

2013: “What does the brain need to bring order to chaos?!”
2014: “How does Feldenkrais help children with developmental disabilities?”
2015: “Principles of Somatic Learning”
2016 and 2017: “Vision, Movement Coordination, Learning”
2018: “Paradigm Shift – From Mechanical to Informational Approach in Bodywork”
2019: “Learn to Recognize Differences – and Improve Motor, Sensory, and Cognitive Functioning”

Approach:
With the body, it is the same as with other things and phenomena in nature and in life: everything that is beautifully and harmoniously organized functions well. When the body and movement are well coordinated, they give us a beautiful and fluid feeling, give us security, and increase ability and creativity. This is not so difficult to achieve because all the wisdom is within us, we only need to know how to awaken the inner, not just the external teachers. The overall life experience is manifested through movement, so by observing, questioning, and listening to movements (physical, mental, as well as sensations and feelings) we come to information that can change our lives for the better. I base everything on personal experience because I have experienced it myself and seen it in others, and that is why I am happy when I am able to pass this knowledge on.

I want to encourage people to learn about their nature, and the nature of which we are an integral part, to achieve a more complete understanding of themselves, to come to authentic feelings and authentic expression through movement, whether it is walking, running, bending, reaching and other purposeful everyday functional movements, or in dance and other types of artistic expression. It is about awakening the awareness and wisdom that is innate in us in this sense and understanding our own effectiveness with which we can achieve ease and harmony of movement and shape our own behavior.

The “Bones for Life” program was founded by Ruthy Alon, an Israeli Feldenkrais method trainer. The approach to working with the body and the exercise processes are based on the principles of somatic sensorimotor learning by Dr. Moshe Feldenkrais. The program can be learned by anyone and then applied daily, for personal needs or in work with others.

“Bones for Life” teaches about the importance and role of the skeletal system in the process of movement, offers exercises/ideas about the conditions necessary to stimulate healthy bone metabolism, and about the correlation between the quality of functioning of this system and human physical and psychological health.