Alan Questel – Uncommon Sensing – Feldenkrais | Available Now !

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Listen to several introductory talks by Alan Questel. Each one discusses a different aspect of the Feldenkrais Method® to give you a better understanding of the Method and how you can benefit.

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Introductory Talks

Podcast 1
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An interview with Alan talking about ‘Embodying Healing and Creativity’

Podcast 2
… So my big interest has been, how do I help people gain more confidence through the process so by the end they actually feel like they can go out and practice the work. One of the jobs of an educational director is to deem when someone is competent to practice. So people do it in different ways, but you watch someone’s progression over the course of training, and of course there is a range that people practice in by the end of the training, some are highly skilled, some less highly skilled and there are many in the middle. But still is does revolve more around a feeling of being able to do something, because look I can deem someone competent, but they don’t feel competent. So then the question is, what needs to happen in the course of the training so that they actually feel, they are ready to do so. And to me the difference really is one of feeling… now the question is, of course, how do you get people to feel differently …o listen to a mp3, click on the links below, which will open up your favourite media player and play the mp3. If you would prefer to download the mp3, on Mac you can hold down the “option” key and click the link and for Windows users you can right click on the link and select “Save Target As”.

Podcast 3
…I started out by trying to define creativity, which I pretty quickly found was antithetical to the idea of creativity, because its not something finite, it’s a process, its dynamic. So then I started to explore different concepts that exist within the realm of the creative process and then I looked for movement experiences that led people to have an embodied sense of the experience of it, rather than just a cognitive understanding of it… if I ask a group of people, ‘Are you creative?’ What happens is that some people’s hands shoot right up, and there’s others who their hands slowly come up, and then unfortunately there’s a bunch that look to the floor, and start to get depressed. So I’ll ask a different question, ‘Do you know someone who is creative or more creative than you?’ And everybody raises there hand, without exception. And I’ll ask the question, ‘What’s different between you and them?’ And the difference, the only difference that I’ve come up with was someone who is more creative…