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®.
Watch a video
clip from the Public Edition
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 and 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 and knee problems
• Walking with a cane
• Moving your SI joints
• Summing up
• Physical and emotional support
Total Time: 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 and 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
