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Being grounded is a natural way of being — 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’s part of a class of behaviors that I think of as pathologies of civilization [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Feldenkrais'
Pushing down is not being grounded
December 20th, 2008 · 2 Comments · Awareness, Feldenkrais, balance, being grounded
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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, the 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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Awareness and Attention
January 27th, 2008 · No Comments · Awareness, Choice, Feldenkrais, Perception, Perceptual process
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 [...]
The Somatic Dimension
January 8th, 2008 · No Comments · Action, Choice, Effort, Feldenkrais, Perception, Perceptual process, somatic organization
So far we’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, [...]
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