Abilities Lessons in Movement with Jeremy Krauss
Jeremy Krauss discusses JKA-ALM and Feldenkrais ATM / How do physical changes in JKA-ALM influence emotional well-being and creative thinking? / Experience a free 25 min JKA-ALM Intro lesson
Jeremy Krauss discusses JKA-ALM and Feldenkrais ATM (12 min)
Topics: Differences and similarities between JKA-ALM (Jeremy Krauss Approach Abilities Lessons in Movement) & Feldenkrais ATM (Awareness Through Movement) / Variations in ways of attending to yourself in movement / Self-regulation / Awareness as an ability / The mechanics of change / Novelty / Perspectives on efforting more or less
How do physical changes in JKA-ALM influence emotional well-being and creative thinking? (13 min)
Topics: Creating change in movement influences emotional, cognitive and sensory domains / Ease, anxiety, stress and relationship to environment / Going slower or faster / Reducing or increasing effort / How to listen to a pleasant sensation / Avoiding emotional life through feeling good in movement / Limbic resonance through mirroring / Changes in mood, aliveness, feeling taller / Loosening patterns of behavior / Feeling more connected to yourself and other people / Secure and insecure attachment / Attaching on to yourself and listening to your own needs / Self-regulation / Resilience / Feeling better to gravity, feeling better with yourself
JKA-ALM Intro lesson to Creating Change Workshop (25 min)
Some experiences from the intro class: Change can be so quick! / I feel emotions release. Great! / Such simple things create clear changes and open new spaces. / Legs feel larger and longer / Range of motion in trunk increased / My legs feeling more active and participating in stand and gait. / I have a real sense of well being. It especially helps a knee issue on the left side"Lumbar relaxed / Increased awareness and articulation of joints / Feeling much freer :-)
About Jeremy Krauss
Jeremy Krauss has been teaching and having a private practice for over 40 years. He is the Founder and Director of a new and unique understanding and perspective of early movement development for working with Special Needs Children and adults in therapeutic learning situations – The Jeremy Krauss Approach (JKA). He has created an interdisciplinary training program to educate people in the JKA and teaches and presents JKA worldwide. Jeremy has also been a Feldenkrais Educational Director for over 25 years. Jeremy’s knowledge of the early development and classical Feldenkrais is unsurpassed. He is recognised worldwide as an excellent teacher for both his clarity as well as his creative abilities in presenting practical and theoretical aspects and in developing new and unique materials. His specialty is his extraordinary ability in working with Special Needs Children with developmental challenges and disorders as well as teaching and presenting complex skills in developmental and Functional Hands-on. Learn more about Jeremy’s work here: https://jeremy-krauss.com
Interview with Jeremy Krauss About JKA Solvents and Glue
The Origins of JKA Solvents and Glue with Jeremy Krauss / Emotional and Physical Stability/ Stability and Strength / The Relationship between JKA Solvents & Glue + Feldenkrais' Alexander Yanai / Difference Between JKA Solvents and Glue and The Feldenkrais Method
This interview is edited into 4 separate video clips. The first one is for everyone. The last 3 might be more interesting to practitioners / people who've been steeped in the Feldenkrais method for a while.
The Origins of JKA Solvents and Glue and Who It Is For (29 min)
Ideas about Feldenkrais lessons/ Emotional and Physical Stability (11 min)
The Importance of Sequence: Relationship between JKA Solvents & Glue + Feldenkrais' Alexander Yanai (15 min)
Difference Between JKA Solvents and Glue and The Feldenkrais Method (20 min)
About Jeremy Krauss
Jeremy Krauss has been teaching and having a private practice for over 40 years. He is the Founder and Director of a new and unique understanding and perspective of early movement development for working with Special Needs Children and adults in therapeutic learning situations – The Jeremy Krauss Approach (JKA). He has created an interdisciplinary training program to educate people in the JKA and teaches and presents JKA worldwide. Jeremy has also been a Feldenkrais Educational Director for over 25 years. Jeremy’s knowledge of the early development and classical Feldenkrais is unsurpassed. He is recognised worldwide as an excellent teacher for both his clarity as well as his creative abilities in presenting practical and theoretical aspects and in developing new and unique materials. His specialty is his extraordinary ability in working with Special Needs Children with developmental challenges and disorders as well as teaching and presenting complex skills in developmental and Functional Hands-on. Learn more about Jeremy’s work here: https://jeremy-krauss.com
Improvising as a Way of Life w/ Stephen Nachmanovitch
Movement & Creativity Podcast #3: Tiffany Sankary interviews Stephen Nachmanovitch, author of Free Play and The Art of Is. They talk about improvising as a way of life in teaching, learning, parenting, creative process and the balance of play, chaos, receptivity, self discovery, imperfection and connection."
Your nervous system is all the way outside your body and all the way inside and you're perceiving through every medium that you're present in." -Stephen Nachmanovitch
"Your nervous system is all the way outside your body and all the way inside and you're perceiving through every medium that you're present in."
-Stephen Nachmanovitch
Movement & Creativity Podcast #3:
Tiffany Sankary interviews Stephen Nachmanovitch, author of Free Play and The Art of Is. They talk about improvising as a way of life in teaching, learning, parenting, creative process and the balance of play, chaos, receptivity, self discovery, imperfection and connection. Stephen shares about his teachers & main influences: Gregory Bateson, William Blake, Yehudi Menuhin, and Jerome Bruner.
"Making art, whether you do it solo or in a group, derives its patterns from everything around us, in an inter-dependent network. We learn to work as nature does, with the material of ourselves: our body, our mind, our companions, and the radical possibilities of the present moment." - Stephen Nachmanovitch, The Art of Is
Video of interview:
Improve chronic pain though improving the functioning of your nervous system
Create new metaphors to counter the "war on pain"→ movement towards curiosity as an approach, rather than self-violence. Deborah Bowes shares her thinking behind her self-paced Feldenkrais Series: Curiosity, Self Image and Pain
Deborah Bowes shares her thinking behind her self paced online Feldenkrais Series: Curiosity, Self Image and Pain
Enlarge Curiosity and Develop Self Knowledge (5 min)
Create new metaphors to counter the "war on pain"→ movement towards curiosity as an approach, rather than self-violence.
If Winnie the Pooh and Friends came for a Feldenkrais lesson (1 min)
Feldenkrais Awareness Through Movement and Self Respect (1 min)
Online Feldenkrais series w/ Deborah Bowes: Curiosity, Self Image and Pain
The experience of chronic pain changes your self-image which is made up of how you move, think, feel, and sense yourself. Feldenkrais lessons help you to discover how to move more, sense more, think and feel in new ways that don't increase pain.
One if the main tools of the Feldenkrais Method is curiosity. Curiosity can be trained so that you can notice how you move and discover how to move differently, without pain, without judgement, starting right where you are. With awareness and learning to notice differences, you can change self-image and go from the limitations of thinking 'I can't' to the freedom of 'I can'.
Self-paced online series
This series designed for anyone who has an interest in chronic pain, such as, someone who has pain, or loves someone with pain, or works with clients with pain.
Deborah Bowes is a Feldenkrais® Teacher and Trainer. She initially trained as a physical therapist at Columbia University in New York and later earned a Doctorate in Physical Therapy from Shenandoah University in Virginia. She holds a B.S. in Biology and Physical Education from Rhode Island College.
As a Guild Certified Trainer of the Feldenkrais Method® since 2000, she has taught widely in the United States, Canada, Germany, Sweden, Australia and Colombia for 14 different training organizations and in over 32 training programs. Her other related in-depth studies and practices include Tai Chi Chuan, Qigong, yoga, sensory awareness, meditation, and dance.
Deborah co-founded the San Francisco Feldenkrais® Center for Movement and Awareness in 1988, and for the past 30 years, has provided Feldenkrais lessons, classes, and workshops to adults and children. She has made many presentations and trainings to professional organizations, university programs, hospitals, and other professional groups. She is an adjunct faculty member at Saybrook University, teaching Movement Modalities and Wellness. Her doctoral research demonstrated the benefit of her original Feldenkrais Method program, Pelvic Health and Awareness for men and women, for improving pelvic floor health.
Curiosity, Compassion and Pain
Feldenkrais Podcast #4 with Deborah Bowes
We talk about:
• How Feldenkrais reassures the limbic system
• The relationship between pain and self image
• The phenomena of pain
• Feldenkrais is a bio-psycho-social model and pain is a bio-psycho-social experience
• The importance of empathy and compassion in changing neural pathways
Feldenkrais Podcast #4 with Deborah Bowes
We talk about:
• How Feldenkrais reassures the limbic system
• The relationship between pain and self image
• The phenomena of pain
• Feldenkrais is a bio-psycho-social model and pain is a bio-psycho-social experience
• The importance of empathy and compassion in changing neural pathways
Listen here:
6:13 Feldenkrais reassures the Lymbic System
6:44 How we can make everything really safe with people with pain?
7:28 How pain brings your attention inward
7:48 The Language of Pain: Finding Words, Compassion, and Relief by David Biro
8:52 Pain threatens to really alienate you, to exile us from the world.
9:12 Feldenkrais can move people from the phenomena of pain of “I can’t” towards “ I can”
9:58 The self image is enlarged rather than continually shrinking and being limited
10:42 As Dennis Leri likes to say, “There’s only 2 things we can notice: More or less, same or different?”…If I can help them make small distinctions, that can carry over as a process they can use for learning how to move.
12:07 The Five Questions
14:27 That ability to shift our attention is the ability to move from one neural pattern to another one
16:17 The importance of the word “support” inspired by Tor Norretranders idea of “exformation” from The User Illusion: Cutting Consciousness Down to Size
17:38 Deborah’s history with pain
19:27 Developing a sense of agency through Awareness Through Movement
20:54 Feldenkrais is a bio-psycho-social model and pain is a bio-psycho-social experience.
21:35 Pain research
21:52 Four characteristics of very effective practitioners: empathy, compassion, support and provided education
Empathy: The ability to feel and sense the other person’s experience
Compassion: The recognition that someone has special needs
25:19 Feldenkrais series at Stanford
27:27 Poster about the class presented at the International association for the study pain in Japan
27:47 Program at Kaiser / Discover Easy Movement and Pain Relief
28:52 What’s the relationship between pain and creativity?
29:04 Pain and curiosity. Feldenkrais said that the nervous system does 3 things:
1) It gives us information about our body
2) information about the environment
3) and the curiosity to do that.
“If any one of those functions becomes so small then life itself is threatened.”
30:12 The Painting Experience Michelle Cassou
32:57 “Pain brings you to the doorway of meaning” from The Culture of Pain by David Morris
33:57 Mind Body Skills program
34:52 Pelvic Floor Feldenkrais Series: Pelvic Health and Awareness
44:26 You can improve anything. That is the natural state of the nervous system. The natural state is to be able to move towards greater function and more health.
45:12 Change is inevitable, so we can direct the change in a way that’s very positive.
Self paced online Feldenkrais series with Deborah Bowes: Curiosity, Self Image & Pain
The experience of chronic pain changes your self-image which is made up of how you move, think, feel, and sense yourself. Feldenkrais lessons help you to discover how to move more, sense more, think and feel in new ways that don't increase pain.
One if the main tools of the Feldenkrais Method is curiosity. Curiosity can be trained so that you can notice how you move and discover how to move differently, without pain, without judgement, starting right where you are. With awareness and learning to notice differences, you can change self-image and go from the limitations of thinking 'I can't' to the freedom of 'I can'.
This series designed for anyone who has an interest in chronic pain, such as, someone who has pain, or loves someone with pain, or works with clients with pain.
Deborah Bowes is a Feldenkrais® Teacher and Trainer. She initially trained as a physical therapist at Columbia University in New York and later earned a Doctorate in Physical Therapy from Shenandoah University in Virginia. She holds a B.S. in Biology and Physical Education from Rhode Island College.
As a Guild Certified Trainer of the Feldenkrais Method® since 2000, she has taught widely in the United States, Canada, Germany, Sweden, Australia and Colombia for 14 different training organizations and in over 32 training programs. Her other related in-depth studies and practices include Tai Chi Chuan, Qigong, yoga, sensory awareness, meditation, and dance.
Deborah co-founded the San Francisco Feldenkrais® Center for Movement and Awareness in 1988, and for the past 30 years, has provided Feldenkrais lessons, classes, and workshops to adults and children. She has made many presentations and trainings to professional organizations, university programs, hospitals, and other professional groups. She is an adjunct faculty member at Saybrook University, teaching Movement Modalities and Wellness. Her doctoral research demonstrated the benefit of her original Feldenkrais Method program, Pelvic Health and Awareness for men and women, for improving pelvic floor health.
