Acquiring The Feldenkrais Profession

by Yochanan Rywerant [BOOK]

CONTENTS

I. Preface
II. Introduction
PART A: THE BASICS
III. Review of various “principles” and “working concepts

1. Habitual and non-habitual patterns
2. Learning by sensing differences
3. Awareness, a way of changing intentional patterns
4. The stages of baby-development
5. Orientation in space and the field of gravity
6. Hierarchy of levels of control, changing of control-level
7. Clarity of the distal and proximal parts involved in patterns of action
8. Defense mechanisms (anti-patterns)
9. Communicative manipulation (the manipulon)
10. The force-surface-pressure relation, the “surface-like” style
11. Clarifying alternative choices, versus imposing correction
12. Goal-directedness versus attention to process, learning by “playing”
13. Modes of control: sedate, aroused
14. Neutral position versus extreme position
15. The potent state, or readiness to act versus mere relaxation
16. The efficient use of the skeleton (in gravitational field, etc.)
17. Acceptance of proposed new patterns; the “Aha!”-Reaction
18. The constituents of a pattern of action, sensory anticipation
19. Corollary discharge and “relative conjugate movements”
20. Sensory filtering in habitual patterns
21. Cause and effect vs. stimulus and response
22. Heuristic learning vs. model imitation
23. Using the senses, calibrating the “gain” of the response
24. “What stops me?” as a way to go on exploring
25. Using existing (“ingrained”) patterns and responses
26. Agonists and antagonists linked neurologically
27. Muscle groups involved in more than one function
28. Non-normative approach vs. “indoctrinated” (hidden) norms
29. Cortical involvement in unusual contexts and settings
30. Different levels of control addressed by different “languages”
31. Communications as verbal (serial, digital) and as sensory (images)
32. The concepts and functions of monitoring and choice-making
33. Reversibility for improved control and efficiency
34. The role of pain, “measuring” pain, progress and rate of rehabilitation
35. Meta-messages in ATM & FI
36. Supplying the missing constituent in a deficient pattern of action
37. Pattern recognition as a phase of learning
38. Primitive (old) patterns
39. Respecting dominance
40. The view on posture
41. Respecting structure
42. Shearing stress and friction, supporting at right angles to surface
43. Testing, usually by going to extremes
44. Repetition, its rationale
45. Integration through change of environment, position or context
46. Integration through the head, its rationale
47. Keystone-manipulation

IV. Review of various themes appropriate for frontal talks (“lectures”)

1. The origins of patters of action
2. Communication by words and images
3. Image of action, the map-territory relation
4. Hierarchy in the CNS, levels of control
5. Structure and function
6. The skeleton
7. The Weber-Fechner principle
8. The neutral point
9. On touch
10. Perception of the world
11. Damage of the CNS
12. Muscles
13. The neuron
14. Entropy
15. The two hemispheres
16. Upright stance in the gravitational field
17. Physical principles
18. Passivity – activity
19. Dualism in language and philosophy
20. Recommending a bibliography

V. Considerations in ATM

1. “Principles”
2. Strategy
3. Tactics
4. Series of lessons

VI. Considerations in FI

1. The style of FI
2. The FI session
3. The limits of FI

PART B: Hints of building a curriculum
VII. General Outline
VIII. A few additional specific items

1. Didactics of ATM lessons
2. Didactics of FI demonstrations
3. Didactics of tutoring FI
4. Didactics of the practicum

The book for long time out of print, so not easy to find it. Use smart search in different sources.
It’s also available in German translation by title Grundlagen der beruflichen Feldenkrais-Arbeit.