Join
with one or more practitioners in a study group
using Ideas in Action as a part of your
self-directed study to gain Continuing Education
Credits toward your Feldenkrais Practitioner
Certification.
Learn the structure & strategy of Functional
Integration® (FI) lessons. Explore the theory
and practice of the Method by teaching lessons
around a specific functional theme. Develop an
understanding of not just what to do, but why.
Each phase of a lesson is presented with an eye
to technical detail and to an explanation of the
reasoning behind it. Considering time-tested lessons
as if they followed the same logic as a musical
score, Ideas In Action brings
to light the compositional sense, technical organization
and experiential processes that underlie effective,
unforgettable learning.
You will learn, step-by-step, what to notice and
how to respond. This fosters the deep appreciation
of the grammar & syntax of lessons necessary to
become a reflective practitioner. The finer points
of technique and self-use are clarified.
In this program you will:
• Cultivate movement observation abilities
• Refine hands-on sensitivity & skills
• Develop better self-use
• Study classic lesson composition
• Learn FI scores & strategies
• Enhance creativity & intuition
• Become a more effective educator
This DVD set is available only to Feldenkrais
teachers who have completed
an accredited Feldenkrais training program
or who have studied with Mia Segal or Yochanon
Rywerant or trainees in the third or fourth year
of accredited trainings. We reserve the right
to require proof of participation, graduation
or membership in a national Feldenkrais
professional association prior to completing any
order.
Watch
an Introductory Video to Ideas in Action 2006
Ideas
in Action 2004 & 2005:Price: $375.00,
16 DVDs in a binder with a data CD which includes
workshop manuals and ATM transcriptions. Your
Price: $337.50 w/coupon.
Ideas in Action 2006:Price: $425.00,
19 DVDs in a binder with a data CD which includes
a Study Guide, MP3 files of the ATMs and SPIFFER
notes. Your Price:
$382.50 w/coupon.
The way you move both informs and is informed
by the way you act, think and feel. Restrictive
habits in movement and posture inhibit your natural
body intelligence and limit your freedom of true
self-expression in action. Improving your posture
isn’t about stretching or exercising or
holding your body in the “right” position.
Improved posture arises organically from ways
of moving and being that are natural and feel
good. Posture with a Purpose
utilizes directed attention and sensory-motor
exploration to help you discover your best posture
and live your best life.
There are no rules to remember, no exercises to
feel guilty about not doing. These lessons will
help you transform sensory motor exploration into
learned improvement and healthy habits that you'll
keep for life. Perfect posture is within you and
practiced mindfulness and self-awareness can help
you set it free.
An
excellent introduction to the Feldenkrais
Method.
Hadaka-Jime:
The Core Technique for Practical Unarmed Combat
is a unique training program that is based on
one core Judo technique. Dr. Feldenkrais developed
the program as emergency training for soldiers
in World War II. Through ten one-hour lessons,
soldiers learned to defend themselves against
an armed opponent in the most rapid and effective
way possible.
Feldenkrais emphasizes concepts of the learning
process throughout the book. He encourages the
reader to maintain a relaxed attitude, to start
with slow and precise movements as he explains
the timing, and to master the movements by repetition.
The result is a spontaneous movement which is
correct and precise.
He emphasizes that a fighter must first acquire
the ability and then put it to practical use.
Thus, the first three lessons teach the core technique,
Hadaka-Jime. The remaining lessons implement the
technique in a variety of situations - against
armed or unarmed attacks from different directions
- all of which culminate in the use of the core
technique. This approach deepens the learning
so that the fighter can effectively perform the
core technique with many alternatives to survive
the situation.
"This
impactful book reveals a pioneer who is equal
parts warrior and educator, who creates a lesson-like
experiment, rich in the interplay of theme and
variation. Thank you, Moti, for making this historically
important book available once again."
- Larry Goldfarb,
Feldenkrais Trainer
Become the Awareness Through Movement®
(ATM) teacher you’ve always dreamed of being.
The complete DVD program of Larry Goldfarb's pragmatic
and useful Anatomy of A Workshop demystifies the
structures and strategies of effective, memorable
ATM lessons.
Understand
how ATM lessons work and why.
Learn
the language that invites curiosity and participation.
Engage
even your most challenging students.
Promote
easy, successful transfer of learning.
Enjoy
discovering and refining your personal teaching
style.
Price: $375.00, 15 DVDs in a binder with a data
CD which includes workshop manuals and ATM transcriptions.Your
Price: $337.50 w/coupon.
A
Guide to Body Sense is an essential resource
for Feldenkrais® Practitioners, health
professionals as well as the public who are interested
in exploring their body-self relationship. Fifty
beautifully illustrated Feldenkrais Awareness
Through Movement® lessons are presented
in the book with eighty pages of text. Each of
the eight chapters explores anatomical segments
and their relationships - the pelvis, trunk, arm-trunk
coordination, leg-trunk coordination, feet and
hands, movements in sitting, eyes, head & neck,
and various advanced movements. The lessons in
each chapter are presented as short sequences
of movements which clearly enhance the sense of
the skeletal movement and alignment. The book
is designed to free the body of inefficient habitual
patterns, easing chronic conditions and keeping
you young.
Easier,
more comfortable living can emerge from a more
efficient use of our skeleton, yet this ability
is a hidden and relatively unperceived aspect
of who we are.
The function of our skeleton to bear weight and
transmit force is underutilized in our everyday
use. Finding our skeleton allows a new way for
us to interact with our environment.
Through Awareness Through Movement (ATM)
we will discover how we can become more "skeletal",
resulting in a new and more vital sense of ourselves
in a truly foundational way.
Complete
recording time: 6h 28:46, 8 Feldenkrais
Lessons, 6 CDs in a Binder with Booklet, List
Price: $60.Your
Price: $54.00 w/coupon.
Equestrians
of all skill levels will find this program innovative,
fun, educational and effective for improving their
skill, recovering from injury or simply riding
more comfortably.
These lessons will help you develop the ability
to self-regulate and adjust your riding posture
from moment to moment. Horses respond to the information
transmitted from your pelvis, feet, legs, back,
arms, and hands. These signals must be precise.
But often riders unintentionally give mixed messages
that confuse the horse. With Riding with the Whole
Self lessons, you will gain the tools to recognize
when and how this happens and how to be more focused
and precise. This precision will lead to less
fatigue and more comfort for both you and your
horse.
The
first 6 lessons are to be done at home either
lying or sitting on the floor or a chair. The
last two lessons are done mounted.
8
Feldenkrais Lessons, 7 CDs with Booklet,
List Price: $64.95, Your
Price: $58.46 w/coupon.
The
Twenty Awareness Through Movement Lessons
book is both a learning and a teaching tool.
These classic lessons are ideal for practitioners
and students of the Feldenkrais Method
looking for additional material to present to
public classes where there is little or no prior
experience of the Method.
Erin presents the lessons in a straightforward,
easy-to-learn format. Each lesson is broken
down into (1) orientation, (2) movement suggestion,
and (3) sensory reference, all of which are
noted with clear instructions in three columns.
Many practitioners and students have found this
format beneficial for exploring the logic of
ATMs. Working with lessons when they are explained
in this way offers an opportunity to deepen
your understanding and felt sense of their natural
coherence.
73 Pages, Wire Binding or Download, List Price:
$34.95, Your Price:
$31.46 w/coupon.
Originally developed by Jerry Karzen to inspire
the students in his Feldenkrais®
Professional Training Programs to design their
own Functional Integration® lessons,
this six-lesson program is ideal for Feldenkrais
Practitioners and Trainees, as well as those involved
in dance, pilates, yoga, martial arts and athletics.
These Feldenkrais Awareness Through Movement®
lessons gradually increase flexibility and self
organization in your feet, knees, hip joints,
spine, ribs and neck. Beginning with basic sequences,
the movements increase in complexity, leading
you to experience a more complete 'body' integration
and sense of self.
5
CDs in a binder or Download, 6 35-50 Minute Lessons.
Download = 250MB. List Price: $59.95 for the CDs
or $49.95 for the Download.
Your Price 53.96 for the CDs or $44.96 for the
Download w/Coupon.
The Power of the Pelvis is a CD set designed to
activate and enliven your vital center. The pelvis
can be a source of spontaneity and joy, or the seat
of challenge for anyone who has had an injury, illness
or trauma that has compromised pelvic mobility.
Athletes, martial artists and performing artists
rely on its power for peak performance. These two
CDs contain four lessons and an introduction. A
great introduction to The Feldenkrais Method®.
2 CDs in a Jewel Case or Download (82MB). List
Price: $26.00, Your
Price: $23.40 w/coupon.
If
you want to develop your speaking or singing voice,
this audio program is a must-have! Improve speaking
and singing by emulating the kind of movements
and sounds that infants use to develop their voices.
Enhance your voice by reprogramming the neuromuscular
patterns that are the building blocks of vocal
functioning.
Relieve physical pain
Improve posture and mobility at any age
Keep your brain young
Recover from illness or injury
Excellent for athletes and performing artists
The
Feldenkrais
at Home™ series uses safe, gentle, relaxing,
non-impact movements for optimal skeletal alignment,
physical mobility and a pain-free life. Free your
back and neck from chronic stiffness and pain.
Recover youthful posture and movement. All the
movement sequences in this program serve to calm
and focus the mind, increasing your ability to
concentrate.
I just attended an introductory workshop on the Feldenkrais
Method.
The movements are slow. Very slow. In fact, in a typical
"lesson", you move a limb just the tiniest
amount, maybe an inch or less, then move it back.
Then compare how your body feels fore and aft.
It's customary to lie on a bit of thin padding, because
we tend to flinch and stiffen up when we lie on a
hard floor.
But, by the end of the lesson, you're amazed –
you can roll about like a ball of goop on the hard
floor. Like a rubbery baby, with no 'ooooffs' or 'yeowchs'.
You move with grace and purpose, like a seasoned performer
or virtually any member of the animal kingdom who
is not thinking moment to moment, "how am I looking?"
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