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		<title>More thoughts on Autonomy</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Jun 2009 04:16:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ralph Strauch</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My previous post on Empowering Autonomy has generated interesting and worthwhile comments, pointing out areas where my meaning and sometimes my thinking were less clear than they could have been, or where I could usefully expand on something. These comments seem to bear out my earlier observation that we each understand the world through our [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Empowering Autonomy</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Jun 2009 02:53:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ralph Strauch</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Feldenkrais Method serves many purposes. It can help you learn to move more easily and fluidly, to lessen chronic pain and discomfort, to moderate limitations created by neurological damage, to perform better at many different tasks, to heal old emotional traumas, and to understand yourself and your ways of being in the world more [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The importance of pelvic flexibility</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Feb 2009 04:37:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ralph Strauch</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The experience of being grounded comes from having a clear proprioceptive sense of the path of support from the ground beneath you through your feet. When your body weight is carried by a balanced, relaxed skeleton the supportive forces pass cleanly from one bone to next along the path, making that path of support relatively [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
	
		<series:name><![CDATA[Being Grounded]]></series:name>
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		<title>Which way is up?</title>
		<link>http://somatic.com/blog/2009/01/which-way-up/</link>
		<comments>http://somatic.com/blog/2009/01/which-way-up/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Jan 2009 04:15:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ralph Strauch</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There are few questions in life more important than &#8220;Which way is up?&#8221; We joke about that, describing someone who doesn&#8217;t grasp what&#8217;s going on around him by saying &#8220;he doesn&#8217;t know which way is up.&#8221; The question, though, is one that you really do need to answer almost constantly, whenever you&#8217;re awake and upright. [...]]]></description>
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		<series:name><![CDATA[Being Grounded]]></series:name>
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		<title>Pushing down is not being grounded</title>
		<link>http://somatic.com/blog/2008/12/pushing-down/</link>
		<comments>http://somatic.com/blog/2008/12/pushing-down/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Dec 2008 05:57:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ralph Strauch</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Being grounded is a natural way of being &#8212; part of our human biological heritage honed by millions of years of evolution. And yet, in contemporary society, really being grounded is relatively rare. Being ungrounded is much more the norm. It&#8217;s part of a class of behaviors that I think of as pathologies of civilization [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>2</slash:comments>
	
		<series:name><![CDATA[Being Grounded]]></series:name>
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		<title>Teaching &#8220;Composing Experience&#8221; in England</title>
		<link>http://somatic.com/blog/2008/11/teaching-in-england/</link>
		<comments>http://somatic.com/blog/2008/11/teaching-in-england/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Nov 2008 18:17:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ralph Strauch</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In May 2008, I presented a five day Feldenkrais advanced training in Composing Experience in Devon, England. The Winter 2008 issue of Functional Information, the Feldenkrais Guild UK Newsletter, included an article on the training and participants&#8217; reactions. A portion of that article is reproduced below. A description of the material presented in that workshop can [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The experience of being grounded</title>
		<link>http://somatic.com/blog/2008/11/being-grounded/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 22 Nov 2008 04:02:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ralph Strauch</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Much is written about being grounded. A google search turns up more than 700,000 entries for the term. Some are about the kind of being grounded that happens to a child as a form of punishment, but most have to do with connection to the ground and its consequences. Some writers see it in terms [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Awareness and Attention</title>
		<link>http://somatic.com/blog/2008/01/awareness-attention/</link>
		<comments>http://somatic.com/blog/2008/01/awareness-attention/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Jan 2008 06:48:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ralph Strauch</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Choice]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Perceptual Process model describes the information flows we use in the composing experience. I want to shift focus now to look at some of the ways we manage that information. Two major processes through which we do that are awareness and attention. As a simplistic first approximation, we might say that awareness makes information [...]]]></description>
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