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Passionate about the pedagogy of delivering Feldenkrais to an open audience, Andrew Gibbons is intent on refining his craft. Andrew sees the potential for using Feldenkrais as a practice to level up your biological fitness to perform in all areas of your life. In introducing his explicit style of investigation into finding efficiency in movement quality, Andrew is not shy of designing lessons offering challenge to those willing to “engage” in the rigour of a learning experience. Far from just having an “experience” in a lesson, or even enjoyment in learning experientially, Andrew brings a desire as a teacher to provide a context and scaffold whereby the student begins to understand for themselves what the benefits of this practice can be. Andrew exploits the ATM context to build a movement experiment with specificity which asks students to engage in a way that heightens their responsibility as learners. He helps them to sense biomechanical principles for themselves, to make clear and deliberate movement choices and to learn to trust their own experience.
Andrew unpacks what it means to understand how to reflexively deliver ATM, in not only offering lesson structure but having the sensitivity to perceive the potential diversity of student response and experience requiring lesson adaptation. He discusses the layers of skill teachers need to refine to adapt and change delivery to make the precise details of how a lesson works accessible to as many people as possible. He does not hide from the need to give inherent value to each student ready to apply themselves within each lesson, demanding presence from both teacher and learner.
He gives a healthy blueprint for successful self-motivation as young ATM graduate teachers in bringing to life this ingenious Method of orienting people clearly and attentively to the way we “use” our bodies in movement - for whatever purpose we desire. Andrew’s enthusiasm brings richness to the conversation, challenging us to develop both with and within the Feldenkrais Method.
Andrew Gibbons: https://bodyofknowledge.me
Feldenkrais Moving into the Unknown: [email protected]
Hosted by: Heidi Carroll, Libby Murray, and Kym McGregor.
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People discovering how to help themselves is Margaret Mayo’s passion. And for over 35 years she has helped people find more of themselves through the powerful medium of Awareness Through Movement classes. Even after all this time Margaret can’t believe how simple Feldenkrais concepts such as knowing where your hip joints are can have such a profound effect. This lively discussion weaves insights about teaching Awareness Through Movement classes with wisdoms for ATM participants. For Feldenkrais Practitioners Margaret shares how she prepares her lessons, the importance of language and how to make lessons accessible. For all of us who do ATM lessons Margaret’s valuable reminders and insights offer ways of “helping us discover more of ourselves”.
A delightful and warm conversation that reminds us of the power of thinking and listening to ourselves from the inside.
Contact Margaret Mayo:[email protected]
Explore more of the research study that Margaret refers to:This Podcast- Moving Into the Unknown Episode 19 Dr Susan HillierFeldenkrais Moving into the Unknown: [email protected]
Hosted by: Heidi Carroll, Libby Murray, and Kym McGregor.
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Anna Yen, a highly trained and well accomplished performer, theatre producer and Feldenkrais Practitioner shares her passion for play, presence and rhythm.
Play she enthuses shows us the wonder of possibilities and the delight of learning while highlighting our blind spots. Her passion for play invites us to experiment in Awareness Through Movement classes. Using light attention we can discover different qualities of movement, interact more powerfully between internal and external, to become more present. Anna’s mentor, Monika Pagneux, one of Europe's leading exponents of movement in contemporary theatre, who integrates Feldenkrais into theatre schools terms this, “waking up”.
Anna also introduces us to the musicality of movement, so we can see more of and flow with the the natural rhythms of life and to play with the timing, emphasis and patterns in Awareness Through Movement classes.
“Play Moves” and “Wake Up”, are Anna’s ATM series that use imagination, theatre skills and games to expand awareness, options and engage us with the subtleties of our surroundings and to become more aware.
Explore more of Anna Yen:
Website: https://playmoves.org
SBS production of Anna's play Chinese Take away: https://vimeo.com/ondemand/chinesetakeaway
Explore more of Monica Pagneux:
Her book and movie: https://robertgoldenpictures.com/photography/the-theatre-the-arts/the-work-of-monica-pagneux-inside-outside/
Anna Yen's article about Monika: Monika Pagneux The Feldenkrais Journal, No 25 LET'S PLAY 2012. Feldenkrais Guild of North America
Feldenkrais Moving into the Unknown: [email protected] Hosted by: Heidi Carroll, Libby Murray, and Kym McGregor.
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Jenni Evans reminds us that there is always possibility for improvement. Our body is where we live but we are not just our bodies. We are our life experiences, contexts, communities, relationships and more. By bringing us back to the fundamentals of ‘what is Feldenkrais’, Jenni assists newcomers and seasoned veterans to understand the expansiveness and potency of the Feldenkrais Method.
Offering specific examples and real-life stories to demystify the Feldenkrais Method, Jenni helps us to realise that it is in patiently listening to and honouring our ‘self’ as a whole system that we learn to allow and trust our innate intelligence to move us into a more potent way of being in and engaging with the world. The Feldenkrais Method resources us with increased awareness, a learning process and gives us an empowering framework to uncover options to meet the moment between thinking and acting in a new way.
Through our discoveries and learnings in Awareness Through Movement Classes or interactions in one-to-one Functional Integration sessions, Jenni demonstrates that small changes have a rippling, profound impact on all aspects of our self, our relationships and the world around us.
Explore more of what is Feldenkrais:
The Australian Feldenkrais Guild offers a few different videos
https://www.feldenkrais.org.au
Explore more from Jenni Evans:
For a list of Feldenkrais practitioner trainings, calendar events – ATMs & workshops go to:
https://feldenkraisinstitute.com.au
For all Feldenkrais resources Jenni runs https://www.feldebiz.com.au
It has a wide selection of Feldenkrais books, downloadable lessons and equipment.
Email: [email protected]
Feldenkrais Moving into the Unknown: [email protected]
Hosted by: Heidi Carroll, Libby Murray, and Kym McGregor.
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Connor Voss brings both a personal and wide lens view of how the Feldenkrais Method® can help everyone potentiate their own authentic self-expression, at whatever level or in whatever context we experience ourselves dancing. He invites us to take a fresh and fluid look at how we experience ourselves in the world by interweaving intersections from his deep loves of movement, modern experimental and improvisational dance, practice of Feldenkrais, and social activism. Connor also gives great advice for practitioners on building working relationships with community to make Feldenkrais accessible to more people.
Connor finds language to disentangle the ‘push-pull’ relationship between dance and Feldenkrais. He elucidates for dancers how a supportive and reflective Feldenkrais environment can deepen and validate their qualitative somatic experience and can individualise their own internal creative experience of what dance can be beyond choreographic score and structure. Connor also introduces how individual introspection in Awareness Through Movement® can deepen our understanding of the world around us and the play between constraints and freedoms in both human body and larger societal systems.
Connor's Website: www.vossfeldenkrais.com
Online classes and recorded ATMs available
Feldenkrais Moving into the Unknown: [email protected]
Hosted by: Heidi Carroll, Libby Murray, and Kym McGregor.
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Irene Lyon, nervous system expert, teaches people around the world how to work with the nervous system to transform trauma, heal body and mind, and live full, creative lives. After graduating as a Feldenkrais Practitioner Irene went deeper into the somatic world, studying the work of Peter Levine and Somatic Experiencing and Kathy Kain's Somatic Practice. Using this unique blend of understanding, Irene assists people to address stored trauma and build their own capacity.
Through this “capacity building” Irene offers ways Feldenkrais enthusiasts and Practitioners can use ‘Trauma Aware’ practices to create a safer more inclusive Awareness Through Movement and Functional Integration experience.
Irene’s insights suggest the majority of people experience dysregulation of their nervous system in some form and believes that education about the nervous system such as the hierarchy of freeze, fight, flight and social engagement can assist in engaging more fully in the Feldenkrais process and engaging more fully in life. A truly remarkable conversation!
Irene's website and resources:
Website: https://irenelyon.com
Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/c/IreneLyon
Downloadable booklet on creating safety in Mind-Body Classes: https://irenelyon.com/10-practices-for-creating-safety-in-your-mind-body-classes
Downloadable booklet to assist recognising undiagnosed trauma: https://irenelyon.com/5-signs-of-undiagnosed-trauma
How to find a good somatic practitioner: https://irenelyon.com/2019/11/14/how-to-find-a-good-practitioner/
Feldenkrais Moving into the Unknown: [email protected]
Hosted by: Heidi Carroll, Libby Murray, and Kym McGregor.
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David Zemach-Bersin gives a deeply philosophical, beautifully paced and moving account of his personal relationship with the work of Moshe Feldenkrais. Simultaneously unravelling some of the ingenious logic and acknowledging the art form of the Feldenkrais Method, David uses an example of a pivotal Awareness Through Movement lesson and underscores some of the finer fundamentals of Functional Integration. In his desire to understand the rewards of Moshe Feldenkrais’ insight, intelligence and teaching methods, David reflects on his years of observing Moshe with awe for the unending optimism this extraordinary man had for the potential for humans to change, to improve and to feel and be our whole selves.
David’s conversation flows around the deep beauty and fine subtlety of how integrated our whole body systems are in how we relate to and harmonize with our environment. He tells poignant and powerful stories to paint a rich landscape on a Feldenkrais canvas he envisages will continue to spread and impact our world in our quest to know ourselves better.
David's Website with FREE resources: https://www.feldenkraisaccess.com
David's Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCebpkt_dXo9KKyHWMmvt1xw
Feldenkrais Moving into the Unknown: [email protected]
Hosted by: Heidi Carroll, Libby Murray, and Kym McGregor
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Molly Tipping specialises in working with people experiencing anxiety and associated issues. In this lively conversation Molly shares her wisdom interlaced with Dr Moshe Feldenkrais’ extensive references to anxiety. She takes us on a fascinating journey describing the repertoire of Nervous System responses available during our ‘apprenticeship’ to mature adulthood. Molly normalises our Autonomic Nervous System responses of fight, flight, freeze and describes ways to help clients gain awareness and alter their internal environment to ‘show up’ in ways they need or want to in their varied daily contexts.
Molly takes the same lens Moshe Feldenkrais used to understand biomechanics and the development of movement and applies it to emotional maturity. In her client led practice Molly unpacks the musculoskeletal system and deliberately maps it along side the emotional or qualitative states we inhabit in the world.
Working with the nervous system and spectrum of emotions is Molly’s forté. Listeners will be inspired by Molly’s methods developed from her Feldenkrais Training and extensive research. She integrates other somatic methods to help her clients and students build skill, enhance their life experience and effectively move towards maturation.
Molly’s Website: https://www.tippingmotion.com.au
Feldenkrais Moving into the Unknown: [email protected]
Hosted by Heidi Carroll, Libby Murray, and Kym McGregor.
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As Professor in Neuroscience and Rehabilitation at the University of South Australia, Dr. Susan Hillier explains the term “neuroplasticity” and how directly experiencing the Feldenkrais Method parallels evidence from neuroscience. Susan discusses current scientific research in how the role of body awareness and the impact of training sensation, perception and awareness can re-establish meaningful function for the whole person after stroke and other movement disorders.
Sharing her personal journey into the Feldenkrais Method, Susan tells of discovering profound personal change along the way to becoming an Educational Director of the Feldenkrais Training Program in Australia. She derives enjoyment in witnessing how the intrigue in Feldenkrais Awareness Through Movement lessons, Functional Integration lessons and in Feldenkrais Trainings helps people feel agency and autonomy to put choices into practice to improve their own functioning.
Outlining some structure and functions of the neural connections in our changeable brain, Susan points to how scientific inquiry into strengthening physiological and behavioural feedback mechanisms for learning are vital in evidence-based research, clinical therapy and Feldenkrais practice. Susan lauds the rich international Feldenkrais community now in supporting the emergence of new pedagogy to find ways we can teach, learn and deliver the Feldenkrais Method successfully.
Links for further learning: International Feldenkrais Federation (IFF) Reference database for research https://feldenkrais-method.org/research/reference-database/
Literature Review: The Effectiveness of the Feldenkrais Method: A Systematic Review of the Evidence by Susan Hillier and Anthea Worley, 2015 https://www.hindawi.com/journals/ecam/2015/752160/
Book: The Feldenkrais Method® - Learning Through Movement. Chapter by Susan Hillier – The Importance of the Brain, Nervous System and Body in Learning https://feldenkraismovementbook.com/
Feldenkrais Moving into the Unknown hosts: Heidi Carroll, Kym McGregor and Libby Murray.
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Mia Segal was Dr. Moshe Feldenkrais’ first observer, protégé and trusted collaborator in perpetuating his masterful work. Mia is joined by her daughter Leora Gaster in recounting moments from their close personal relationship and home life with Moshe. This has afforded them unique insight and perception into the spirit of Moshe's artful attitude and approach to improving human ability. Mia and Leora speak passionately of the importance of the work for teaching responsibility and autonomy to children, its ground in Judo principles and the art of gentleness. Mia, together with her daughter Leora, still loves actively teaching and sharing the system of questioning and refinement of learning evolved by her close association with Moshe Feldenkrais. Mia’s work over seven decades has enriched the lineage of already potent teaching and learning of practitioners today. Leora and Mia support how research is widening to encompass the interlacing of individual aspects of cutting-edge science as we contemplate how humanity fits with our environment. They conclude by highlighting the importance of research in confirming Moshe Feldenkrais’ work today.
Mia and Leora welcome students to Mind Body Studies Academy at: https://mbsacademy.org/
https://www.facebook.com/MBSAcademy
https://www.instagram.com/mbsacademy/
Upcoming courses: https://mbsacademy.org/mbs-new-courses-2022/
Feldenkrais Moving into the Unknown hosts: Heidi Carroll, Kym McGregor and Libby Murray.
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As a trauma-informed integrative physiotherapist, Paul Watt offers Feldenkrais and Tension Trauma Release Exercises (TRE) alongside physiotherapy. He accompanies clients of all ages on often difficult journeys of exploration towards harmony, balance and self-love to come "home" to themselves.
Paul's discussion of TRE offers great parallels and insights into a deeper understanding of Feldenkrais as well as how TRE can be taught as a self-educative technique used to complement Feldenkrais to unpack accumulated stress, unresolved narratives and chronic holding patterns. He recommends trying TRE in the process of continually re-orienting to our environment with kindness.
You can contact Paul Watt via:
Website: highwayelephant.com.au
Email: [email protected]
Contact Moving Into The Unknown:
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Deborah offers insightful expertise on chronic pain and pelvic floor health coupled with simplicity of process. Initially enticed by Moshe Feldenkrais’ theory of the mind and body connection, Deborah embarked on a personal journey of emotional and mind transformation. With more than 34 years as a revered Feldenkrais Practitioner and Trainer, Deborah has developed a unique style engaging people in a gentle, safe and pleasurable process of self discovery. An inquisitive scholar, Deborah has delved deeply into pelvic floor health and chronic pain research and has keenly refined a distinctive, highly effective style which has enhanced the quality of life of thousands of clients throughout her career.
As a Feldenkrais Trainer, Deborah continues to inspire students and graduates to develop and gain confidence to pursue their passion as practitioners. Deborah’s authenticity shines as she explains how her unwavering curiosity has allowed her to explore and develop deep understandings. She shares practical, easy to implement strategies and techniques for the path she has grown to love, that of working with people with chronic pain. Deborah helps listeners understand through evoking curiosity, we can interrupt our patterns and that pain can change as people alter their self image. This is a delightfully personal and practical conversation with a highly respected Feldenkrais elder.
Deborah's website:
https://www.feldenkraissf.com/
https://www.feldenkraissf.com/about-me-deborah
Self-Paced Online Feldenkrais® Courses:
https://www.movementandcreativity.com/deborah-bowes-online-feldenkrais
Feldenkrais Moving into the Unknown hosts: Heidi Carroll, Libby Murray, and Kym McGregor.
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Leora Gaster brings Moshe Feldenkrais’ background to the foreground with a fresh sense of aliveness and gives colour to the creative environment she experienced growing up through the formative exploratory years of Moshe Feldenkrais' work with her mother, Mia Segal. It’s an uplifting account of the vibrant experimentation and cross-pollination of ideas with eminent thinkers influencing the human potential movement. Leora expands on how the synthesis of Moshe Feldenkrais’ work was based on questioning with respect - all the science and philosophy of the time.
Immersed in the influence, observations and teachings of Moshe Feldenkrais since childhood and emerging with wisdom and clarity of her own, Leora is embracing a new generation of practitioners with Mia Segal in Mind Body Studies Academy and is ready to impart with simplicity the tools and techniques everyone can use to improve the whole of life. MBS Academy teaches an accessible language of communication between our brain and body using movement-thought exercises to empower self-knowledge and self-mastery. Leora gives a practical example for understanding the essence of this effective work in a simple precise blueprint.
Leora affirms the continuity and relevancy today of the ways Moshe Feldenkrais was seeking to further develop the intersection between disciplines discovering the connections between movement, thoughts, emotions and self-image. She further distills and succinctly expresses the simple ways we can identify and change the seemingly inseparable physiological and psychological aspects of life to improve our human ability, movement and behaviour.
Links for all Leora’s resources and Mind Body Studies Academy:
https://mbsacademy.org/
https://www.facebook.com/MBSAcademy
https://www.instagram.com/mbsacademy/
Upcoming courses: https://mbsacademy.org/mbs-new-courses-2022/
Feldenkrais Moving into the Unknown hosts: Heidi Carroll, Kym McGregor and Libby Murray.
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It’s not just about the body! Body language expert Lavinia Plonka brings recognition of the fullness of expression of our emotions into relationship with our body posture, gestures and breath using the lens of the Feldenkrais Method® with her signature Emotional Body® techniques. Lavinia has always been attracted to the expression of self through her love of movement and recognises the role her extensive creative life in mime, dance and theatre has played in her own conscious evolution. Integrating all the elements of her own deep humanistic quest towards self-actualization and creativity, Lavinia gives us a sense of embracing the wholeness of ourselves, helping us recognise our passions and fears in identifiable archetypes of human behaviour.
Lavinia explains for everyone how from within a place of personal safety in a Feldenkrais Awareness Through Movement or Functional Integration lesson, we can begin to explore and recognise not only physical and movement habits but patterns of emotional expression. Here we can use the power of where we place our attention to discover our unseen emotional habits, uncover our biases, and see for ourselves the stories our bodies tell to find more congruency, capacity and resilience to channel more efficacy into our lives. We can find links between our physical and emotional discomforts, learn from these expressions and reorganise to release ourselves from many fears or other self-limiting emotions. Lavinia champions that finding creativity within ourselves is accessible to all of us.
For practitioners, Lavinia suggests that using the Feldenkrais Method as a means to develop our authentic professional path includes following Moshe Feldenkrais’ lessons for ourselves. In integrating what we know of our emotional as well as cognitive and physical “self” with ongoing discovery and interoceptive perception, we can give the best representation of our authentic selves to simply BE with our clients to help them to do the same for themselves.
Lavinia Plonka practises the Feldenkrais Method® as a teacher and assistant trainer and is the director of Asheville Movement Center in Asheville, NC, USA.
She runs Feldenkrais workshops, classes and retreats online and in person, and is a teacher of the Alba Method and an Emotional Body Instructor. She was an artist in residence for the Guggenheim Museum and movement consultant for theater and television companies around the world. Lavinia is a faculty member of the Shift Network and the author of several books and audio programs, including her best seller "What Are You Afraid Of?" which has been translated into five languages.
Link for all Lavinia’s resources: https://laviniaplonka.com
Feldenkrais Moving into the Unknown hosts: Heidi Carroll, Libby Murray, and Dale Dickins.
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Tara Eden, Feldenkrais Practitioner, began her Somatic Movement Project as a child and continued her innate life journey as an observer and student of the human condition. She travelled an intense route of self-expression via the heat and power of yoga, striving to overcome frustration, anxieties and burnout – society’s common symptoms of chronic disconnection to self in a saturated life chasing improvement, betterment and existential change. Tara explains how we have tried to form and conform ourselves to not only yoga but society’s poses and postures without reference to the individual self.
Moving from the frenzied pace of New York to exploring a spiritual path in Chiang Mai, Thailand, Tara found personal vulnerabilities were exposed in the energetic exchange of Thai massage. Leading herself with this newfound “feeling” and beginning to differentiate uncomfortable choice points led to the discovery of limitations in yoga for options of choice, rest and adaptation. Tara transitioned into a Feldenkrais immersion of authenticity and acceptance of self, and now offers this window to others wanting to see themselves clearly, discover healthier self-use, empowerment to trust and learn from their own embodied experience and to discover a unique inner calm, stillness and self-knowing that arrives spontaneously in an embodied state change.
Tara suggests strategies to have this container of Feldenkrais for yourself, as a structure and a lens for being able to support yourself and other people in their authentic experience of themselves, to literally and metaphorically “come to the floor” and reconnect with themselves.
Tara is a Feldenkrais Practitioner and member of ISMETA (International Somatics Movement Education and Therapy Association) offering individual, group, online and face to face Functional Integration and Awareness Through Movement lessons and Somatic Movement Mentorship.
You can reach out to Tara:
Website: https://somatic-movement-project.com
Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/feldenkraiswithtara
Feldenkrais Moving into the Unknown hosts: Heidi Carroll, Libby Murray, and Dale Dickins,
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Thanks to our guest interviewer Jools Glinkowski.
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Kim Sargent-Wishart leads us on an exploration of somatics, inquiry and how we can find even deeper and more subtle ways of exploring our felt sense. Expanding on Moshe’s ideas of sensing the self through the nervous system and skeleton, Kim explains how sensing into any part of our anatomy gives us new insights and ways of being.
Kim is a Melbourne based Certified Practitioner and Teacher of Body-Mind Centering®, and a Registered Somatic Movement Educator and Therapist. Originally from the United States, Kim has danced since childhood, completing a Bachelor of Arts in Dance with Honors. Her studies in massage, anatomy and kinesiology, Pilates and Body Mind Centering® bring tangible and embodied connection to all aspects of creative exploration and expression.
As an artist, researcher, educator & writer, Kim specializes in somatic education, physical practices & contemplative photography. She is also a long time student of Buddhist traditions.
In 2016 Kim was able to put all her interests together into an intriguing Doctorate entitled “Making Nothing out of Something: Emptiness, Embodiment and Creative Activity." She holds weekly drop-in and themed classes online.
Explore her work here:
https://kimsargentwishart.com
https://www.facebook.com/circulatemovementarts/
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Taro Iwamoto meets people at exactly the point of understanding of their own movement or life challenges, responding and making connections with them via his YouTube channel “Feldenkrais with Taro Iwamoto”. He takes great pride in making simple, practical and useful YouTube videos using the Feldenkrais Method that speak to people of diverse ages and abilities. Taro has found a way to make an impact on how people connect with themselves to improve their own performance beyond the limitations they perceive, expanding individual human capability not just in the functional actions of everyday life, but in shifting ideals of perfection in favour of recognising that other options exist.
His unique Feldenkrais learning framework on YouTube takes inspiration from his background in athletic training, physical therapy and martial arts to use clear, elegant messages to engage people to discover their own solutions to movement within their own safe environments. He is inspiring people daily with Feldenkrais principles to be comfortable on solid ground, be able to find their way to stand, to overcome the fear of falling and to use the adaptability of their own nervous system for better balance, independence and ease of existence in many areas of life.
Feldenkrais with Taro Iwamoto
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/TaroIwamoto
Website: https://trans4move.com/
Feldenkrais: Moving Into the Unknown hosts: Dale Dickins, Heidi Carroll and Libby Murray; [email protected]; twitter@FeldenkraisMI
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Nick Strauss-Klein is committed to unveiling the grand vision of the Feldenkrais Project of carefully collated online audio Awareness Through Movement (ATM) lessons for all of humanity. The Feldenkrais Project promotes at its core the actualisation of the Feldenkrais Method across the globe, in a form easily available, digestible, sharable and definitely durable. In amplifying the accessibility of these simple but deeply clarifying lessons, Nick is a beacon, orientating us to the fundamentals of familiarising our ‘selves’ with the guiding principles and structures of Feldenkrais.
Offered free, this novel model of the Feldenkrais Project has grown to be fully crowd-funded as the level of public responsiveness continues to grow. Ordinary people are discovering extraordinary wisdom first-hand and have the opportunity to contribute their own individual responses to lessons and ATM practice in fascinating raw and honest testimonial. Whether orienting newcomers to the Feldenkrais Method, delighting his growing website listening community or satisfying the curiosity of the serious Feldenkrais learner, Nick provides a Feldenkrais resource of great depth and uncommon contextualisation for everyday life, valued by all levels of participant. Nick’s pure intention of generating interest in and expanding awareness of the life-changing benefits of the Feldenkrais Method is now gaining traction and inspires practitioners to achieve this with online offerings.
This conversation suggests there may be a direction to connect the body of worldwide endeavours to continue Moshe Feldenkrais's legacy, in collaborative explorations linking self-organising interest-based groups such as Australia’s Feldenkrais Interest Group, the Legacy Forum of the Feldenkrais Guild of North America and Cynthia Allen’s Feldenkrais Awareness Summit.
The Feldenkrais Project https://feldenkraisproject.com/
Feldenkrais Interest Group https://fig.news
[email protected]Feldenkrais Legacy Forum FGNA https://youtu.be/Smg5Le76CDs
[email protected] "get a password to a website that tells you more information"Feldenkrais Awareness Summit https://www.feldenkraissummit.com/
piano by DJ, with a reminder: "all this stuff is practice"
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Russell and Linda Delman encourage us to bring warmth, humour and kindness of heart and mind to the exploration of our intimate inner selves and the “feeling states” of being human. Together they explain “embodiment” and introduce to us a simple and powerful practical taste of the Embodied Life School™️. Via Feldenkrais Method, conscious movement and meditation using precision specificity of feeling and sensing, grounded presence is created in your own immediate experience. Russell and Linda discuss the meaning of “integration” of feelings, sensations, emotions, thoughts and convey how using principles by which our nervous system learns to grow our awareness beyond our physical body can be used to awaken to our individual and collective human potential. This awareness may be a tangible doorway to enter new states of consciousness available and useful to all of us, to a larger experience of spaciousness and deeply connected relationship to ourselves, to others, to our environment and our earth.
Embodied Life™️ evolved from Russell and Linda’s extensive personal explorations and experience with Moshe Feldenkrais’ teachings, with Moshe himself, giving Functional Integration lessons to Moshe and in giving numerous Feldenkrais Trainings together, as well as Russell’s longstanding Zen meditation practice, somatic psychology and Focusing studies and Linda’s Sacred Dance, spirituality and conscious movement studies and deep appreciation for nature.
Sustaining awe, wonder and curiosity in how we deeply listen to ourselves in the present moment can grow our own capacity and resourcefulness in moving beyond our self-limiting habits and beliefs to find the possibility of expressions of freedom, wisdom and love Moshe Feldenkrais’ teachings were leaning toward. Russell and Linda have taken the Feldenkrais Method to another level, truly evolving their own handwriting in their offering to humanity.
Links : website The Embodied Life School™️ - seminars, program and retreats
Linda Delman's YouTube -over 50 short Embodied Life School practices, free to subscribers
Books, CD's and products including recently released Let's Bow Together: Meditations Guided By Russell Delman in English and German
Living The Embodied Life: Feldenkrais Method®, Meditation and Guided Inquiry
The Embodied Life School Movement Essentials: A Guide for Cultivating Awareness
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Heidi and Dale introduce a veteran gift to this Feldenkrais space, Alan Questel from SanteFe New Mexico USA. Alan has been practicing Feldenkrais since injuring his back many years ago whilst he was making a living to become an actor. He shares about some of the obstacles he faced along his pathway from being a client to becoming a trainer. Moshe often talked about practitioners bringing a unique aspect of themselves to his method, it seems his wish was that his insights for BEing human were expressed through people as they struggle/d with the maturation process of becoming a practitioner to further establish his work. Alan certainly took Moshe's intention to a different level, he has developed a signature style by practicing intentional acts of kindness via his Awareness Through Movement classes. He invites people to like themselves, beginning with sensing pleasurable options in the most unlikely movement - like rolling from back to belly with books on each foot (Imagine the advanced version of this, balancing books on hands also). Click here to see the downloadable collections on his website - reversibility, or as he calls it, ytilibisrever is amongst a host of valuable lessons.
They talk about the ripple effects this enquiry has introduced to his life and how it has shaped his actions.. true to his intention he offers listeners options to pay what they feel for one 'set' from his collection of material.
And, yes, the missing quote from Ram Das:“… when you go out into the woods and you look at trees,
you see all these different trees.
And some of them are bent,
and some of them are straight,
and some of them are evergreens,
and some of them are whatever.
And you look at the tree and you allow it.
You appreciate it.
You see why it is the way it is.
You sort of understand that it didn’t get enough light,
and so it turned that way.
And you don’t get all emotional about it.
You just allow it.
You appreciate the tree.The minute you get near humans, you lose all that.
And you are constantly saying
“You’re too this, or I’m too this.”
That judging mind comes in.
And so I practice turning people into trees.
Which means appreciating them just the way they are.”— Ram Das, On Self Judgment
Heidi and Dale host this episode, the format of two hosts per episode has been planned for the rest of the year. Next month Heidi and Libby move into the unknown with Russell and Linda Delman, more Feldenkrais legends.
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