“Amelia was having a kid’s day in the country with David and a friend that he brought along. They had a picnic, and Amelia was playing games with the boys.”

“I spent time working to strip down exercises to find the core of what is effective in an exercise. This alone brought about many changes in my body.”

"The hands have to be open, they have to be soft, they have to be sensitive to somebody’s body, they have to be sensitive through your body. You have to understand the force through the floor, through you, into your hands, into them.”

The Itcush Method is a series of exercises and theories derived from the Mitzvah Technique developed by M. Cohen-Nehemia and intended to develop optimal physical functioning through balancing muscle tissue and aligning the skeleton.

Our bodies are in a dynamic state of constant rebalancing - the shift of the balancing forces. The more a body connects with the weight, the more it accesses the force or the spring.

Increasing kinaesthetic awareness in everyday patterns leads to the understanding that there is no dancing body, acting body, sleeping body, and so forth. The body is always the body.

The body moves according to familiar movement patterns. When a habitual pattern prevents optimal physical functioning, the pattern needs to be changed.

In this work, activation of the primary principles and theories are crucial in order to develop the student’s cognitive and physical understanding of how change in the body occurs. Between sessions, there is a need to maintain changes brought about by hands-on work.

Amelia was determined to reduce injury and physical distortion in the practice of dance. The goal was to bridge the gap between dance’s extreme relationship with gravity and a more healthful and ultimately restorative movement practice: movement that fed the body.

The foot does not prepare to hit the ground. It simply remains open to the experience of interacting with an uneven surface. This is why wearing shoes is so problematic – the shoe predetermines the foot's shape when it hits the ground.

Line of direction supports us in space, allows us to turn and cut though space, guiding us. Eventually the lines are no longer an idea - they actually exist.

“I walk backwards, its great for balance.”

“After experiencing Amelia’s hands, I felt there is something to this, but I was still stubborn towards it. Only when there was a revolutionary change in my body did I really grasp the importance.”

Pushing down off the floor with the foot or knees allows force to travel up through the leg, triggering the pelvis, and travelling on up into the spine. It creates a rippling motion in the spine all the way to the head.