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Testimonials from participants in past Advanced Trainings with Ralph
"The whole training was led in a sensitive, balanced, and encouraging way -- highly conducive to learning.The chunks of time alloted for peer work were just right to encourage experimentation. I appreciated the approach, and the whole group felt at ease with itself"
"...the forms with touch, connection, and listening (other than "moves"); the sense of centre rather than boundary; the soft, subtle, and powerful place between the least resistance and the first hint of collapse; and the level of non-doing we practiced will all, I suspect, have a very significant impact on how I live as well as on my FI and ATM practice."
"I found the training very inspiring, because it confirmed my own way of working and provided me with new ideas which I am going to use in my practice"
"I found the open attitude to the Method a relief and liberation. To have these theoretical and experiential viewpoints on the Method clarified things about the Method and have given me the optimism that I could do FI -- from my viewpoint -- in my way! (having had little confidence about doing FI before this)"
"Being still at the beginning of my training I had a lot of anticipation about how I could get the FI exercises "right." Ralph's openness in encouraging us to experiment and engaging with the group as a whole helped very much with this. I have seldom felt so comfortable throughout a workshop."
"Thanks for the relaxed, supportive environment. I think it allowed us better learning and practice."
It was a well designed, facilitated and shared learning experience -- a learning space which led participants into an engagement to a practical and self-reflective learning work I rarely had come across. Ralph's expertise and organization became an invitation to join him on this continuous adventure of somatic learning, integration and sharing. Ralph's open-listening attitude to students was a special gift in the dancing dialogue.
Ralph has a gift to allow the expression of diverse viewpoints, quietly hold his initial reactions to those viewpoints, and guide each participant to opening to alternate slices of reality. And then he manages to express those "cracks in the cosmic egg" in the form of ATMs
The training provided an in-depth exploration of this aspect of the Feldenkrais Method. It was interesting, fun, and my personal & professional growth was actively stimulated & inspired.
This training is key to taking my practice of the Feldenkrais Method towards being more elegant and my life more joyful. The simplicity and authenticity of Ralph's teaching encourage confidence in his students.
"Amazing, the "not-doing" but feeling & taking time & becoming aware"
"A great chef who serves up an impeccable meal and then gets out of the way enough that you can truly appreciate the food and fully digest it. Thanks Ralph"
Ralph Strauch, Ph.D., practices the Feldenkrais Method in Los Angeles, California. He trained with the founder of the Method, Dr. Moshe Feldenkrais, and brings to his practice a wide range of insight and experience. He was formerly a Senior Mathematician with the Rand Corporation where his research focused on choice in the face of uncertainty, and has been exploring the mind-body relationship through the internal martial arts and related practices since the late 1960s. He has presented advanced training for Feldenkrais Practitioners in the United States, Canada, Australia, and Great Britain. A more complete description of his background can be found here.
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