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		<title>More thoughts on Autonomy</title>
		<link>http://somatic.com/blog/2009/06/autonomy2/</link>
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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>Defining the Feldenkrais Method</title>
		<link>http://somatic.com/blog/2009/02/defining-feldenkrais/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Feb 2009 04:37:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ralph Strauch</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[understanding]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[To explore issues around understanding the Feldenkrais Method we need some definition of what the Method consists of. I don’t believe a formal definition is feasible; instead I’m going to suggest somewhat loose and fluid boundaries to the territory that contains it. Not everyone will agree with my choices, and that is part of the problem [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ways of knowing Feldenkrais</title>
		<link>http://somatic.com/blog/2009/02/knowing-feldenkrais/</link>
		<comments>http://somatic.com/blog/2009/02/knowing-feldenkrais/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Feb 2009 20:19:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ralph Strauch</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Thomas Kuhn]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[For the past quarter-century I&#8217;ve been engaged in the practice of the Feldenkrais Method, a revolutionary approach to human development created by Moshe Feldenkrais, an Israeli physicist, engineer, and deep thinker about the nature of being human. Over that time the number of Feldenkrais practitioners has grown, from less than one hundred when I began to study [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>1</slash:comments>
	
		<series:name><![CDATA[Understanding Feldenkrais]]></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>
				<category><![CDATA[Awareness]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Feldenkrais]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Perception]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[balance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[being grounded]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[somatic organization]]></category>

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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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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
	
		<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>
	
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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>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>
				<category><![CDATA[Awareness]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Choice]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Feldenkrais]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Perception]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Perceptual process]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[attention]]></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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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
	
		<series:name><![CDATA[Perception]]></series:name>
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		<title>The Somatic Dimension</title>
		<link>http://somatic.com/blog/2008/01/somatic-dimension/</link>
		<comments>http://somatic.com/blog/2008/01/somatic-dimension/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Jan 2008 17:46:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ralph Strauch</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Action]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Choice]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Effort]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Feldenkrais]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[somatic organization]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://somatic.com/blog/2008/01/08/somatic-dimension/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[So far we&#8217;ve been looking primarily at the perception of information impinging on you from the outside world. But human experience involves more than that. You are a physical being, with a physical body that moves through space and interacts with the world around you, physically and in other ways. You assess situations, make choices, [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
	
		<series:name><![CDATA[Perception]]></series:name>
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		<title>Memory and Expectations</title>
		<link>http://somatic.com/blog/2007/12/memory-expectations/</link>
		<comments>http://somatic.com/blog/2007/12/memory-expectations/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Dec 2007 22:46:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ralph Strauch</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[B/13]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[faces/vase]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[memory]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[perceptual lens]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[playing cards]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[somatic self-image]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Past experience and what you learn from it play a significant role in shaping your perceptions and your current experience. The examples we&#8217;ve looked at so far make that clear. That&#8217;s why you could recognize things like faces and vases, characters like B and 13, and four suites of playing cards &#8212; two red and [...]]]></description>
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		<series:name><![CDATA[Perception]]></series:name>
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