Composing Experience

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

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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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The Perceptual Process Model

October 12th, 2007 · No Comments · Choice, Perception, Perceptual process, somatic organization

This entry is part 3 of 8 in the series Perception

Think of experience as having two primary components, perception and action. Perception includes those processes through which you know yourself and the world around you — vision, hearing, proprioception (body awareness, balance, position in space, movement), intellectual and intuitive understanding, etc. Action encompasses what you do to interact with that world — getting a drink [...]

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