Discussion on Lesson 2

12/8/2019

Below is the discussion we had about the second Awareness Through Movement lesson presented: Brining the Elbows to Knees. We recommend you do the lesson before listening the discussion.

You'll also find online discussion(s) via the comments on the this Awareness Through Movement lesson. Julie answers an great & commonly asked question that was posed by Josefin.

2 Comments

Susan

12/8/2019 02:25:39 pm

Wonderful! Thank you all so much for sharing your thoughts and to Sandra what was going through your mind as you planned the lesson. I did feel that you were teaching me how to stop and feel things, helping me to notice what things I might pay attention to and I especially appreciated that about the lesson.

Sandra Bradshaw

17/8/2019 08:25:30 am

Hi Susan
Thank you for your comment here. You hit the proverbial nail on the head when you said the lesson helped you stop and feel things and pay attention in ways that you wouldn't normally do.

Designing an audio lesson is so different from teaching in front of a class, particularly when you have no idea who will be doing the lesson or if they have ever experienced Feldenkrais work before. When I was preparing this lesson I realized the text was very important but equally important was the pacing. With beginners there is always the tendency to rush a movement. Even when they are told to go slower they still move too quickly. I felt that if I paced the movement to my verbal instructions it would help people move more slowly and give them more opportunity for observation.

The difference between this audio lesson and a recording of a live class is that in a class you are watching what people are doing and the next instruction is always dependent upon your observations of the students. If you are keen to study the difference between the two types of lessons, go back and do Alice's lesson which was done live class and then do to the one I did to compare the strategies we used.

What I particularly love about the Feldenkrais Method is its immediacy. It's not recipes that are presented rote. It's dynamic and a lesson always emerges out of the needs of the students. .

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