Victoria II Training Segment 11

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Guest Trainer: Alan Questel

Day 1 Sunday Feb 5, 2012

AM
Introduction to Alan
Regards the self-image as a reflection of how much one likes or does not like themselves.
What could be the downside of asking this question?

• Immediately brings up negative side
• Resistance to the question

Alan’s plan for the segment arose from what he found in teaching some advanced trainings. Wanting to include the gaps in learning in trainings themselves.
What make for an effective lesson?

• Mobilize hip joints
• Freedom of lower abdomen
• Distribution of movement proximally (through torso)
• Connecting head to torso
• Connecting the lesson to activity in client’s life.

Group process:
What are your habits of practice with someone?

• Side-lying
• Supine
• Kneeling over table
• Prone

Made a list of familiar things one does in these positions
Break
Practice with partner:

1. Partner lies in one of the 4 above positions
2. ‘Practitioner” chooses three ONLY moves and works with partner with no conversation
3. Change roles
4. Feedback

Break
Discussion: Often beginning with the familiar gives one a sense of inner authority
Continuation of exploration:
Make a note of the person you worked with, the position and what you did and then with SAME partner do three things that are unfamiliar.
LUNCH
PM
ATM: Side-lying Pressing and Lifting Ribs (from Alan)
Break
FI Demo: (with Ahmis) Side-lying hands on shoulder/arm/ribs and moving gently. Where does quality change?
Moving to other places; pelvis/spine etc. gently rolling. Every movement is a potential ‘reference’.
Think that you are asking questions with each movement.
Rolling and extending. Do what you know to ask the questions staying with what is ‘easy’ range, then return to reference.
New: Placing hands UNDER ribs to lift ribcage. One hand is lower on ribcage than other, one in front and other in back where you feel you have person in your hands.

DAY 2 Monday Feb. 6, 2012

AM
Discussion:

• When does a lesson begin?
• What questions could you ask someone?
• What are we ‘experts’ in? Movement and providing a learning environment. Asking questions, sensitive touch

Break
ATM: Supine- Sacral Clocks (Alan)
FI Demo: Side-lying review of yesterday: rolling and sensing then lifting from under ribcage and moving forward and backward from same place.
NEW: As they roll, where they stop is where muscles engage

1. From behind place one knee/leg against their pelvis, scoop a hand under belly in front and lift, waiting as breath comes into hand. Then SLOWLY lower hand to table and wait to see what may follow. Remove hand and give a moment to settle and check rolling at pelvis again 7?or other earlier movements to check quality etc.
2. Sitting below butt, slide hand under lower greater trochanter with other fist at front of knee to stabilize /anchor and use your leg on the floor and lift pelvis from underneath.

LUNCH
PM
Practice with same partner as yesterday afternoon:

• Start with what you know
• Try new things
• Return to beginning to check

DAY 3 Tuesday Feb. 7, 2012

AM
Questions and discussion from yesterday.
What is in an FI from the onset?
1. Sensing

• Contact and connection
• Observation
• Skeletal sense, connection, support
• Sensing effort in yourself and other
• Both self and client are sensed throughout
• Breathing
• Support from ground/table

What is effect of lesson? Neurological, aesthetic, experience of ease, connection etc.
2. Movement

• Quality and Range: smooth, stickiness, jumpy, jerky, restricted. (language)
• Direction of ease, planes of movement. axis of movement.
• Antagonistic relationship of musculature
• What else moves?
• Timing, sequence, distinctions

3. Attention

• Patters of cardinal function :flexion, extension, side bending, rotation.
• Reaching bending, turning, twisting: Enhanced 3D relationship to environment
• Connect these to an Intentional activity; walking, carrying groceries etc.

Much of a lesson is with #2
LEARNING AND ENQUIRY
Break
ATM: Standing, With Top of Head on Wall: Turning arms and Turning around Top of Head. (Alan)
LUNCH
PM
FI Demo & Practice: Review of yesterday and Sunday
Finding some response or lack of response may lead to further questions.
NEW: Side-lying. Add one hand @ lower ribs on upper side and one @ upper ribs on upper side and moving them down toward table.
One hand from behind in front under lower ribs on under side and other flat on upper scapula. Sense between hands and bring diagonally toward each other and then rock.
Fingers ‘under’ top scapula (like holing a wing) and ‘pulling’ away. Differentiating scapula and ribs.
Sitting at head and lifting and translating head
1- Find how they go back with arm on side (not in front) Rolling as one
2- Sliding only arm/scapula backward
3- Rolling ribs from upper side
4- Rolling ribs from lower (on table) side
5- Arrange head as for looking forward with person on side
6- Translate head
7- Check forward and backward movement again
Practice with SAME partner as yesterday
Break
FI DEmo: Person lying prone. Bring one knee up toward chest.
What activity could this influence? Make a list
With a NEW partner slide a leg up thinking of one of these activities and then another. Does it change how you slide the knee up?

DAY 4 Wednesday Feb 8

AM
Questions Use of rollers

• Take away excess work
• Comfort
• Plevis contact with table increased
• Functional: increases movement

Shapes, symmetry (coffee mug hand out)
If we look for symmetry we may miss the value in their asymmetry.
What are the advantages and disadvantages in the structure?
Self-organization: Be able to move in the 6 cardinal directions without a lot of disturbance. Have a free pelvis and sense of support.
Can THEY do what they want?
Break
ATM: Side-lying Opening and ‘Snap’ Closing Side to Side, Moving From Underneath (Alan)
LUNCH
PM
FI: Review of yesterday and refinements.
NEW: Side-ling
2 hands on greater trochanter, pressing into table to connect to other hip
Sitting in front of person holding their arm so elbow is up to maintain the arm as one piece. Push and pull arm then ask person to:

1. Resist the push or pull so they can identify where they ‘work’. Resist by engaging shoulder blade backward as you pull and. Resist by bringing whole back backward
2. Pull and resist by opening lower arm joint
3. Pull and push leg and arm and resist in various ways

Practice with same partner as last time
Reference shoulder and pelvis
review yesterday
do new explorations
return to reference
Break
FI practice: NEW PARTNER Give them an FI with 3 questions

• How do you spend your day? What movement activities
• Any pain or discomfort?
• What would you like to be better at or improve?

Start in side-lying but do anything you want.
Explore distribution of effort, hip joints and their relationship to the questions.

DAY 5 Thursday Feb. 9, 2012

AM
Practice: Returning to 1st partner and side-lying do 3 familiar things each after short interview with same three questions and then 3 unfamiliar things.
Break
ATM: Hip Joints By Way of Lengthening #1 (AY 268 (Alice)
Lunch
PM
Groups of 4-5. Why have someone lying on a roller the long way?
FI: Person lying on roller legs standing:
Small movements lifting shoulders and sense adjustments
Small movements pushing from ribs and sensing adjustments
Raise head and move to each side of roller and look for counterbalance. Then asks to move pelvis to increase balance
Pull at knee in and out
At knee lift and move knee/foot tiny bit each way and find where it is easy. Note the adjustments for balance.
Come back to knee movement and head again to check
Break
Groups of 6: 3 observing and others:

• one kneeling over table
• one side-lying
• one sitting

Observe and take turns giving an instruction that all move the same. Movement takes place in same place in all orientations. If not, change the instruction so they do. This speaks to relationships.

DAY 6 Friday Feb 10, 2012

AM
Questions and discussion re: role of novelty in learning and teaching
Teaching original ATMs
FI Demo and practice: Person lying on roller legs standing

• Very Small Slow movements with waits
• Attention to if person is feeling precarious
• Translating head
• Lifting each shoulder
• Wait for adaptations
• Practice with NEW partner

Break
ATM: Hip Joints By Way of Lengthening #2 (AY 269) Alice
LUNCH
PM
Demo Lying on roller and upping the challenge with rollers under one, then both feet and under arms
Groups of 6 (& 1 of 8): 3 lying and 3 giving instructions as yesterday. 4th person lies supine with legs on table.
Give instructions and then change them so it goes:

1. From proximal to distal or distal to proximal
2. Same movement from opposite side.

Here you need to know what point is moving as well as pattern/relationship.

DAY 7 Monday Feb.13, 2012

AM
FI demo & practice (Alice): Lying along 2 rollers (head at top tail at bottom)

• Lifting head sensing connection to spine as lower head
• Rolling and then side-bending head
• Lifting both rollers at shoulders to lift shoulders and move toward flexion
• Lifting one roller at shoulder and then alternating
• Lifting one, keeping it raised, lifting the other and then lowering one and then the other
• Moving rollers from shoulders progressively outward so rollers are more V shaped top to bottom and doing all of the above. Supporting head as you go.
• Rolling person off the rollers

Break
ATM: AY # 270 Continuation Holding Knee (Hip joint by way of lengthening)(Alice)
LUNCH
PM
FI: Groups of 6: Return to 3 in different positions that are or approximate sitting.
Give an instruction and note what pattern of movement is
Invite the same pattern somewhere else
Invite same pattern in yet another place
Here is generalization of action.
Talk and Questions: Feedback: how to give and receive
Homework: Three questions /feedback that would help you. Contract with a partner
FI practice: partners
One person does a small movement as part of a larger action (ex. beginning of golf swing) and slowly amplifies the movement until partner guesses what it is and does the entire movement. Define what the major pattern is (ie rotation etc.) and then DE-amplify it and then do it de-amplified in sitting and then in a lying position. Partner will generalize the pattern through small touching helps and see if the entire action is then different. Use cardinal patterns: flexion, extension, rotation, side bending.
Feedback

DAY 8 Tuesday Feb. 14, 2012

AM
Questions asked by class:
Nervous System: why people ‘help’ and why they may be unaware of doing this.
How to take a function and help someone improve it.
ATM: Walking with Your Back. Supine. Achilles between toes. Side-lying and lengthening
Groups of 5: What was evoked in the ATM and how could you use in an FI? Try different things as well as walk and talk.
Break
FI: Idea of a ‘default’ lesson. What are we trying to address in most lessons:
Co-contraction as an example of how we work against ourselves. Holding belly all the time.
What works for whom when
Congruent relationship between flexors and extensors
Concept of ‘neutral’: place where least effort is used as beginning
Side-lying: Explore co-contraction and help person to a place of more even distribution of effort.

• Find how person moves- ribs & shoulders, pelvis &ribs
• Do many of the ‘moves’ from last week in real time as part of a lesson
• ADD: 3 NEW things

1. Holding under knee/thigh and under foot as ‘stirrup’ and ask person to push against you and both note where the work is and where in torso and/or belly they may notice work.
2. Do this again and you ask them IF they would exaggerate the push what shape would they begin to make. How would they move? Sense where the power comes from
3. Ask person to roll forward as if toward stomach and get LONGER in front and push heel into your hand again (you are still holding leg).
Then: Sitting in front at head hold person’s hand as if shaking and ask them to push into you in similar ways as leg and find places of work and power connecting through skeleton
Sit at sit-bone and ask them to push into your hand and then move hand behind sit bone and they push toward you here getting longer as belly goes forward and sit bone back. Return to arm and push again in both directions (arm and sit-bone). “Imagine hand still back there and push back as you lengthen and push arm).
Return to earlier movements and note differences.
This helps create a map of person’s awareness and sensation.
LUNCH
PM
FI: Quick repeat of demo and then practice with partner.
Begin by using some of the questions on the handout.
Break
Discussion: Emotions as a complex constellation of sensation and context. Emotions emerging in a lesson.

DAY 9 Wednesday Feb, 15, 2012

AM
Groups of 4:
What would you do when someone really cries/gets emotional in a lesson?
If you were the one on the table what would you want? How would you like the practitioner to respond?
Break
ATM: Upright Posture #1 Alice (from Chava)
Break
FI Demo & practice. Organize someone for standing and walking
Supine: 3 New things and then back to yesterday’s and earlier.
1. Lifting head and lowering with a sense of lengthening. Look for where the quality changes and stop there. Raise shoulders and ribs and return to check head.
2. From leg: 1 hand on greater trochanter, roll leg in and keep it there and gently push into the ITBand. Look for where the leg can fo just a BIT more inward. Do same on other leg lifting, shortening and moving the IT Band.
3. Holding under ribcage so that ribs rest in hands with fingers pointing toward spine. Lift fingers to lift ribs. Ask person to press into your hands and note where movement/work occurs. Ask them to move from sternum and pelvis and legs and then return to raising ribs.
4. Return to leg that feels lighter or easier and raise leg and ask person to ‘push’ leg into your hand and toward the table and note where the work is. Push as you lift the leg and lengthen with a bit of resistance. You pull as you lower and then ask them to do this,
LUNCH
Questions.
Practice with same partner as yesterday

DAY 10 Thursday Feb. 16, 2012-03-01

AM
ATM: Standing and Walking on the Table (folded) Alan’s
Break
Discussion: Vulnerability as safety
FI Demonstration and practice. Skeletal support
Side-lying. Finding through small movements, how person moves and gives a sense of support so they can ‘settle’ in. Calm Nervous system. Increase possibility for attention.
Set tone of ‘dropping in’ and attention
Bring leg up and shorten flexors to have them have possibility to change
‘Folding’ from various places
Coming back to some places with a change of shape
Round even more (from front, both arms toward knees and head) and continue with small movements as earlier supporting pattern of flexion.
Round more from legs bringing them up more toward chest as possible and easy.
Distribute rounding more through spine.
Place (as possible & easy) top arm on leg and lift leg with the arm and make small circles.
Practice with partner and change roles
LUNCH
PM
Groups of 4-5. Discussion of article on walking that was distributed yesterday afternoon.
Would you use it for your students? Why or why not?
Discussion on weight bearing and functional adaptation.
Demo: Skeletal organization at end of lesson.
Person sitting on table with feet on floor elbows on knees:
They round and lengthen self.
Practitioner sits behind with hands on pelvis and help them round and lengthen
With hand on lower back and on chest move fingers along vertebrae so they can round or arch from each place (toward each hand as you move it up and down).
Hand at neck and help them note where it gets long and move forward (chin as for translation) and back. Where is gaze?
Hands on shoulder blades helping rounding and lengthening by invitations for them to move apart/forward and together and down.
Give as homework: Sit and round or fold over hip joints LOOKING FOR LENGTH
Where is horizon
Release belly as they fold.

DAY 11 Friday Feb. 17, 2012

AM
ATM: Upright posture continued. (Alice) from Chava
Break
FI Demo and practice: Side lying: Review of few days.
All the work is asking questions and not telling or ordering.
Importance of connecting and staying with the person and “knowing when you have them in your hands”.
Same ‘push’ questions as you did with person but now person is supine
Practice with new partner and change roles 40 minutes each
LUNCH
PM
FI Demo and practice
Supine: Review of IT Band and internal rotation of hip joints
Lifting and lengthening head
Slide hands under back (upper) and asking person to press into your hands from different places.(Learning to use flexors from upper and lower and lengthening extensors)
At leg, lift and have person push. Looking for skeletal connection/ strength

DAY 12 Saturday Feb. 18, 2012

AM
Discussion $$ Money $$
Attitudes toward money and understanding yourself. What is your relationship to and emotions around money.
Groups of 3: From a personal point of view where are you? Comfortable or uncomfortable giving or receiving money. Include your sensory experience.
What are the practical issue we deal with re: practice?

• How much we charge
• Stand by decisions you make
• Insurance
• Ethics

Other Issues that arise: Our Feelings about

• Expectations, ours and others
• Colleagues
• Plenty/Lack
• Value and demand- has to do with your self-image and client’s.
• How differentiated am I about my feeling and actions around money?

Exercises
From the list in the handout, pick 1 and come up with an action oriented plan to address it (ie have a ‘listener’ to work with regularly)
Pick a client and stick to your decision and see what happens for you.
Break
ATM: Rolling from side-lying toward back using the ground to move. Moving from shoulder, pelvis, knee and head
Break
FI Practice: Using ‘de-amplified’ action; standing, sitting etc. work with 2 patterns you’ve identified and include use of table. Person on table shift position partway thorough (as if uncomfortable) and practitioner continues with same pattern in this position. Do this again so position shifts again. Change roles
Feedback on practice
Break
ATM: Supine and Kneeling with head on ‘wall’. Moving From Front of Spine. (Alan’s)
Good Byes END OF SESSION

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