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Focusing your Touch: Advanced Training in the Feldenkrais Method®

 

 by Ralph Strauch

Your eyes take in a tremendous amount of information. You use only a small fraction of that information, selectively filtering and attending to what seems important to your current functioning. Your tactile and proprioceptive systems also provide much more information than you actually use. You selectively filter that information as well, though perhaps less well than you filter visual information because you are less conscious of using it.

As a Feldenkrais Practitioner, the quality of your Functional Integration depends heavily on how you use tactile and proprioceptive information. This workshop on CD will help you learn to focus your tactile/proprioceptive awareness and attention more consciously, to enhance your Functional Integration. You will feel the positive difference that this can make in the quality of the FI experience, and so will your clients.

Specific issues and skills we address include:
  • Consciously focusing your attention where it serves you best, irrespective of where you are touching your client. Exploring different questions with the same movement by changing your focus of attention.
  • The nature of the cultural agreement which creates the collective illusion we call reality, and ways we create unnecessary limitation within that agreement. The distinction between pushing on and moving with your client, and the difference it makes in the resulting experience.
  • The perception of pattern as more than the relationship between isolated parts. Using the perception of pattern in FI. Enlarging the pattern you work with to encompass yourself as well as your client, and working with the conjoined system that results.
  • Discussion of treatment and exploration as tools for facilitating change. The role of exploration in Functional Integration and the practice of the Feldenkrais Method as an exercise in not-knowing.

This 2.5 hour recording is an edited version of a live presentation at the 2005 Feldenkrais Annual Conference. Periods when participants were practicing and no verbal instruction was occurring have been eliminated, and additional comments added where necessary to clarify meaning. The material has been divided into chapters to facilitate review of specific sections.

Track Titles

Focusing Touch Disk 1
1-1. Introduction
1-2. Controlling your focus
1-3. Controlling focus (cont.)
1-4. Pushing and moving
1-5. Functional Integration practice
1-6. Creating limitation
1-7. Moving with vs pushing against
1-8. The perceptual shift
1-9. A different reality 		Focusing Touch Disk 2
2-1. Perceiving pattern
2-2. Pattern in Functional Integration
2-3. Treatment vs Exploration
2-4. Enlarging the pattern
2-5. The conjoined system
2-6. Asking different questions
2-7. The nature of Feldenkrais practice
2-8. Training soft focus
2-9. Working with impulses

2 CDs in a jewel case
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