Anatomy: Anatomy Classes and Workshops, Anatomy Class Schedule, Gallery Anatomy — Workshops and Classes: Kriota Willberg offers anatomy workshops and classes targeted to the practice and teaching of yoga, dance, and Pilates that range from 20 hour teacher training programs, to weekend intensives, to workshops and "parlors". Although structure and level varies depending on the focus of the group, all programs focus on the musculoskeletal system and basic kinesiology, with occasional detours into other systems of the body (nervous or respiratory, for example) or in depth focus on injuries and injury prevention. Classes use lecture, palpation, movement, and a live model to access auditory, visual, and kinesthetic learning methods. Class materials may involve (but are not limited to) anatomical charts, model skeletons, hand-outs, our own bodies, and tracing muscles and structures on a live model. As participants learn to locate bones and muscles, trace their outlines, see them move through space, and feel these structures palpated and move on themselves, they will have an opportunity to appreciate the anatomical model in a three dimensional form. Increased anatomical awareness will also increase one's understanding of alignment and injury prevention. photo: Janaki (Phyllis) Swalwell Illustration: Kriota Willberg Anatomy for Cartoonists at the Center for Cartoon Studies White River Junction, VT Cartoonstudies.org This course gives students information that can be used by cartoonists and artists to define characters through the depiction of the physical body in relationship to action, personality, state of health, age, fitness, etc. Students learn about the shape and function of the skeleton at large, basic types of joints, where they are located, how they move, and how they cannot move. They learn to recognize bones on the surface of the body, and how to locate these bony landmarks through skin, muscle, and fat. In addition to the function of muscle, locations and actions of major muscle groups, and how to recognize superficial musculature on a body, students learn about the body's covering layers; the skin, fat, and the connective tissue that holds us together. Also, we discuss the physical characteristics that define infancy, childhood, puberty, adolescence, and adulthood, growth patterns of the skeleton, where fat is stored in the body at different stages in life, and different types of fat distribution patterns. Building off of this material, we can then explore the visual impact on the body of aging, not only to the skin but the skeleton, muscular system, connective tissue, and fat distribution. Powerpoint lectures present examples of a variety of cartooning styles that successfully (and sometimes unsuccessfully) demonstrate an amazing range of body types in action, inaction, health, disease, age, and occasionally alien forms. Work with live models gives students opportunity to interpret the layers of tissues and systems of the body with a more discerning eye. photos R. Sikoryak, Illustrations CCS Students