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Focusing your Touch: Advanced Training in the Feldenkrais MethodŽ |
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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 audio
workshop 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
Functional Integration 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 Functional Integration. 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.
| Program Contents: |
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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 |
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