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Foundations Course - Six Lessons on The Gokhale Method

  • Foundation Courses

    Foundations Course - Six Lessons on The Gokhale Method

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  • Starting Jun 9, 2023
  • Time:
    8:00 AM - June 11th, 2023 1:00 PM
  • Language: English
  • Location: 5700 Pheasant Hill Road, Madison
  • Category: Foundation Courses
  • More events in this city: Madison
  • Seats available: 1
  • USD $ 450.00  (Six 90-minute lessons)
  • Lesson 1:
    Friday
    June 9, 2023
    starting at 8:00 AM
  • Lesson 2:
    Friday
    June 9, 2023
    starting at 9:45 AM
  • Lesson 3:
    Friday
    June 9, 2023
    starting at 11:30 AM
  • Lesson 4:
    Sunday
    June 11, 2023
    starting at 8:00 AM
  • Lesson 5:
    Sunday
    June 11, 2023
    starting at 9:45 AM
  • Lesson 6:
    Sunday
    June 11, 2023
    starting at 11:30 AM

Venue

Name of Facility: St Stephens Lutheran Church
5700 Pheasant Hill Road
Madison, WI 53704
United States

Facility Details: Enter via the Staff Parking Lot; faces Pheasant Hill Road

Parking Info: Street parking on Pheasant Hill Road, or park in the large parking lot behind the building. If you park on the street, simply walk up the hill to the staff parking lot. If you park in the large parking lot, you will need to walk around the building to the staff parking lot.

About this workshop

The Foundations Course is a core offering of the Gokhale Method. In six 90-minute lessons, you can change your habits efficiently and profoundly through a combination of verbal explanation, visual materials, and gentle hands-on guidance from a qualified Gokhale Method teacher. All qualified Gokhale Method teachers are personally trained by Esther Gokhale.

  • Reduce or eliminate many kinds of musculoskeletal pain
  • Prevent joint degeneration
  • Increase energy, stamina, and flexibility
  • Improve your circulation and breathing
  • Reduce stress
  • Look and feel more confident


Effects are often immediate and last a lifetime.

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“In six sessions I felt transformed. The approach is stunningly simple and confers immediate results. I wholeheartedly endorse this program.”

        - Deirdre Stegman, M.D. Internal Medicine, Palo Alto Medical Foundation


“Every year tens of thousands of patients undergo major back surgery without any benefit. By using the novel techniques of the Gokhale Method, many of these patients can avoid such needless and expensive medical procedures and quickly return to a pain-free life.”

        - John R. Adler, Neurosurgeon, Stanford University Medical Clinic, Stanford, CA


"Although stunningly simple, the Gokhale Method™ turns much of conventional wisdom about pain and posture on its head. Each session of the course gave immediate results and I now look forward to many years of a healthy neck and back."

        - Joan Baez, folk singer and activist, Woodside, CA

Your Teacher

Sigrun Franzen
[email protected]
6085790941

Sigrun tried the Gokhale Method after a significant bout of back pain in 2019 that limited her ability to do daily activities. After the Gokhale Method Foundations Course, she was struck by the method’s simplicity, depth, and staying power. Sitting and standing gradually became more comfortable. Leaning over while teaching piano became a healthy, enjoyable activity instead of a painful one. Other activities that had been uncomfortable—such as balancing on an organ bench to play foot pedals while reaching to play keyboards at different heights—had a simple solution. A twenty-year running injury disappeared after applying...Read more


If the posted dates don't work for your schedule, or if you would prefer private instruction, please click below to initiate a request for private instruction with them. Your teacher can help with follow up appointments as well, get in touch with them.

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What others are saying

Benefits of learning the Gokhale Method:

  • Reduce/eliminate many kinds of musculoskeletal pain
  • Prevention of joint/disc degeneration
  • Reduce stress levels
  • Improve circulation and breathing
  • Look and feel more confident
  • Weight loss and reduce appearance of belly fat
  • Increase energy, stamina, and flexibility
  • Increase height (up to 1" or 2.54cm)
  • Increase productivity

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