The Magazine By, For, and About Feldenkrais® Practitioners and Trainees
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The Feldenkrais Method®: Moving Beyond Ourselves
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Welcome
In Touch
is a monthly e-newsletter about developing one's competence as a Feldenkrais®
teacher. Issues will contain articles about teaching the Feld
enkrais Method® of somatic education,
running your own business, and more.
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From the Editors
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Photo by Jason Rosewell on Unsplash |
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It has been a season about breath. Starting with Covid-19 and its attack on the lungs, to the battlecry "I can't breathe!" to our dear MaryBeth's passing due to pulmonary complications, we have been rudely reminded of our fragility and our relationship to the function of breathing.
This issue is an opportunity to look at how we work with breathing in different ways: Robert Sussuma writes about breathing and the voice, Ellen Soloway offers a video (complete with an FI
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demo on a very well behaved "client") on breath, pecking and more.
Both our contributors and myself wish to dedicate this issue to MaryBeth Smith, who worked tirelessly to make these publications useful and entertaining. We will do our best to try to wear these big shoes.
--Lavinia Plonka
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Robert Sussuma |
BETWEEN ME AND YOU: Understanding Breath, Voice and Transformation
As Feldenkrais
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Practitioners, we often describe our work in FI as a conversation between two nervous systems in which we use touch as our mode of communication. Like speech, our movements carry messages and intentions, our touch indicates tone and inflection. Somehow, these are perceived and understood by the person with whom we are working. And, we too are listening. We are receiving sensory information from their system as much as they are from ours. In this living, learning loop, we refine our movements based on what we "hear" in their system and, in turn, they have an opportunity to respond in novel ways to us responding to them in novel ways. It is a wondrous dance, an exchange of intelligences and, in short, a thrilling and transformative dialogue.
But, a literal conversation, a good old "you say something then I say something" gab session is also an exchange between two nervous systems - one that we humans have been practicing and optimizing for many thousands of years, one that is so commonplace it is practically invisible to us.
It goes something like this...
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Mark your calendars
Zoom Cafes -
August 5th - Black Lives Matter: Continuing the Conversation
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FGNA 2020 Conference ONLINE! September 11-13, details coming soon!
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Promote Your Practice
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Dive into the breath -
AY List of Breathing Lessons
If you are feeling anatomically challenged, this delightful TED ED video can give you a wonderful tour of your lungs.
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Oxygen's surprisingly complex journey through your body - Enda Butler |
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Breathing WIth Ease During Covid
It's not just about staying healthy, it's about staying sane and comfortable and wearing a mask can compromise both. If you haven't had a chance to listen to Fariya Doctor's class on Breathing WIth Ease During Covid, take a listen both for yourself and your students!
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What's the right way to breathe? A different take on breathing exercises
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In Touch Editorial Policy
All articles reflect the individual views of the authors if signed, and the view of the editorial staff, if unsigned. Unless an article explicitly states that it is reporting a Guild policy, it does not reflect any official point of view adopted by the Feldenkrais Guild® of North America.
All Fedenkrais Method® images ©Robert Golden. Used with permission.
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