Balance

$60.00

By Alan Questel

Balance (or the lack of it) describes how you are, both physically and emotionally. You know what it is—but what is it really? Balance is something you only really think about when you lose it. But do you know what you lose? Finding your balance is easier and closer than you think! In this workshop you will experience some of the fundamental ideas that inform you about your balance as well as ways you can understand it, utilize it and play with it.

By Alan Questel

Balance (or the lack of it) describes how you are, both physically and emotionally. You know what it is—but what is it really? Balance is something you only really think about when you lose it. But do you know what you lose? Finding your balance is easier and closer than you think! In this workshop you will experience some of the fundamental ideas that inform you about your balance as well as ways you can understand it, utilize it and play with it.

You will discover how instability can become mobility and how immovability can become stability. Through ATM lessons you will explore how it is you have balance, loose it and regain it again.

This series is a live recording from the weekend workshop Balance with Awareness Through Movement, whichQuestel presented in Lucerne, Switzerland, October 10 and 11, 2009.

Disc One

Introduction to the method/learning & movement/what is balance? 19:11
ATM 1: Balancing between Sitting and Lying #1 32:07
Discussion-Getting used to differences/Struggle/Doing it ‘right’/The only principle in Feldenkrais & being inclusive. 10:30

Disc Two

Intro to ATM: When have you felt a challenge to your balance? Do we know how we stand.... 01:46
ATM 2: Standing Over Your Hip Joint #1 36:32
Discussion-We know ourselves more clearly through movement/Being more skeletal 04:08

Disc Three

Intro to ATM: Two legged dogs!/Explanatory principles & experiential understanding/Experiencing our center of gravity 03:12
ATM 3: Sacral Clock 45:19
Discussion – The range of experiences we can have/Adapting the lesson/The sensation of an ideal movement 05:29

Disc Four

ATM 4: Standing Over Your Hip Joint #2 41:18
Discussion – Connecting to our everyday moments/Finding our hip joints/Disrupting balance & finding it again/Finding neutral... boundaries.../Stability & mobility 15:43

Disc Five

ATM 5: Standing Over Your Hip Joint #3 45:13
Discussion – New feelings, different feelings/Configurations of action 08:50

Disc Six

ATM 6: Balancing between Sitting and Lying #2 39:01
Discussion – Clarifying antagonistic muscle groups/A proportional distribution of movement 04:38

Disc Seven

ATM 7: Standing Over Your Hip Joint #4 49:30
Discussion – Becoming more skeletal and our muscular activity/you are now using yourself differently... 03:34

Disc Eight

ATM 8: Lifting and Rolling from the Opposite Hip 40:31
Discussion – How do we use the ground?/Thank you and goodbye 02:37

Complete recording time: 6h 28:46

Alan S. Questel trained directly with Dr. Feldenkrais in Amherst, Massachusettes. Since that time, he has lectured and taught at hospitals, colleges and Feldenkrais Professional Training Programs throughout the world. He is known for his clarity, creativity and down-to-earth style of teaching. He brings a depth of understanding, humor and a gentle human perspective to the learning of the Method and creates lively conditions for learning.

An actor before becoming interested in the Feldenkrais Method, Alan worked and toured with Jerzy Grotowski (My Dinner With Andre) and Paul Sills (Second City, Chicago and Story Theatre). Even today, one of his great interests is the embodiment of creativity, and he has developed a body of work for performers utilizing the Feldenkrais Method. Alan sees the Method as a means for individual maturation, and aspires towards making this appreciable and concrete for his students both in training programs and in his practice.

Balance

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