Composing Experience

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

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Living in Gravity DVD

March 28th, 2010 · No Comments · , Effort, Perception, balance, being grounded, contains video, somatic organization

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

In the first post in this series on Being Grounded, I defined being grounded as a state of relaxed skeletal balance where the forces generated by the weight of your body pass cleanly through your skeleton into the ground, and supporting forces from the ground are transmitted back up through your skeleton. I’ve recently released [...]

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Defining the Feldenkrais Method

February 20th, 2009 · No Comments · , Feldenkrais, Perception

This entry is part 2 of 4 in the series Understanding Feldenkrais

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 [...]

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Ways of knowing Feldenkrais

February 8th, 2009 · 1 Comment · Feldenkrais, Perception

This entry is part 1 of 4 in the series Understanding Feldenkrais

For the past quarter-century I’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 [...]

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Which way is up?

January 4th, 2009 · No Comments · Awareness, Feldenkrais, Perception, balance, being grounded, somatic organization

This entry is part 3 of 5 in the series Being Grounded

There are few questions in life more important than “Which way is up?” We joke about that, describing someone who doesn’t grasp what’s going on around him by saying “he doesn’t know which way is up.” The question, though, is one that you really do need to answer almost constantly, whenever you’re awake and upright. [...]

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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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