Composing Experience

Perceiving and interacting with the world around you — a Feldenkrais perspective

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Teaching “Composing Experience” in England

November 24th, 2008 · No Comments · Awareness, Feldenkrais, Perception, Perceptual process

In May 2008, I presented a five day Feldenkrais advanced training in Composing Experience in Devon, England. The Winter 2008 issue of Functional Information, theĀ Feldenkrais Guild UK Newsletter, included an article on the training and participants’ reactions. A portion of that article is reproduced below. A description of the material presented in that workshop can [...]

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The experience of being grounded

November 21st, 2008 · 2 Comments · Awareness, Effort, Perception, balance, being grounded, somatic organization

This entry is part 1 of 5 in the series Being Grounded

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 [...]

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Awareness and Attention

January 27th, 2008 · No Comments · Awareness, Choice, Feldenkrais, Perception, Perceptual process

This entry is part 8 of 8 in the series Perception

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 [...]

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