Living in Gravity - Professional Edition

by Ralph Strauch

We live in a field of gravity. Much of the effort we expend in life goes toward dealing with that gravity - keeping ourselves upright and moving within it. And much of that effort is unnecessary.

We think of life as hard work, so we work harder at it than we need to. We’re slightly off balance most of the time, constantly working to keep from falling over. We lose touch with the natural balance and fluidity that are our natural birthright.

This workshop will put you back in touch with that natural balance - in sitting, standing, and walking, and in the transitions between them. You will rediscover how your body was meant to move, and experience the ease and fluidity that more natural movement offers.

The Professional Edition is for Feldenkrais® Practitioners and Trainees and includes a second DVD containing Feldenkrais advanced training material related to working with skeletal support in Functional Integration®.

Professional Edition Table of Contents
Disc 1: Living in Gravity			Disc 2: Skeletal Support in FI
Introduction Sitting balance Living in gravity Balance in sitting Using your spine Moving your ribcage Being six years old Separating your legs Why you held them still Shifting into your feet Sitting to standing Shifting into standing Sit-to-stand transition The urge not to listen Feedback from your legs “Working hard” Listening to pain Current information Getting out of a car L istening to the chair Forces through your spine Awareness & consciousness Walking Standing weight-shift Walk by shifting weight Hurrying Discussion of walking Why tense when we hurry? Attorney story Stack of spools Walking with an empty foot Discussion: Shifting neurological control One thing at a time Why awareness matters Tight thighs & knee problems Walking with a cane Moving your SI joints Summing up Physical and emotional support Total Time	2:07 23:51 1:39 1:43 2:26 2:53 2:35 3:47 5:04 3:44 41:06 1:48 6:04 1:19 5:43 3:39 5:54 2:49 1:16 5:47 3:27 3:17 30:08 5:40 3:41 1:22 4:41 5:41 2:26 1:37 4:57 30:04 3:08 4:21 3:13 4:30 2:39 2:34 5:44 3:54 2:05:10		Section 1 Support as a theme Lifting through the spine Sensing into the body Learning to sense more Fl - sensing into body Feeling subtle change Fl - switch partners Broadening your focus Section 2 Seeing in the dark The conjoined system Fl - conjoined system Ask different questions Fl - different questions Finding trajectories More Fl practice Discuss FI practice Section 3 Non-verbal knowing Diagnosis & treatment Ending the lesson Integration into life Fl - skeletal path Using the spine to lift Computer stress Rocks in a backpack Section 4 Support from the table Fl - theme of support Sitting in chairs Lightness and grounding Pushing into the ground Shifting weight to stand Walking on ice Rigidity is not stability Total Time	28:16 2:03 3:28 6:32 4:23 3:46 3:34 0:49 3:36 34:31 5:28 10:05 2:38 3:09 1:19 3:17 6:52 1:41 29:29 2:01 2:00 4:08 3:30 6:23 5:36 1:52 3:53 21:28 1:42 3:09 2:46 1:20 4:22 1:18 3:44 3:23 1:54:01

2 DVDs, 359 Min.