The way we see ourselves shapes how we live our life and how we practice as Feldenkrais® teachers. Gaining clarity about your own self-image can help so much in seeing your clients with more clarity.
For this issue of InTouch, we were lucky to interview two great trainers, Larry Goldfarb and Zoran Kovich, who offered their perspectives on how the idea of self-image affects our thinking and work with clients. Al Wadleigh offers an article on how maps of reality are created and the primary components of creating and maintaining our map of the world. Margot Schaal shares a beautiful evolution of self-image for one of her clients. We also included an unusual and poetic piece by Dorothy Kristin Hanna on self-image to inspire all of us to think outside of the box.
For this issue of InTouch, we were lucky to interview two great trainers, Larry Goldfarb and Zoran Kovich, who offered their perspectives on how the idea of self-image affects our thinking and work with clients. Al Wadleigh offers an article on how maps of reality are created and the primary components of creating and maintaining our map of the world. Margot Schaal shares a beautiful evolution of self-image for one of her clients. We also included an unusual and poetic piece by Dorothy Kristin Hanna on self-image to inspire all of us to think outside of the box.
Course content:
Interview with Larry Goldfarb – Using Self-Image Concept in Teaching
Article by Al Wadleigh – This is Not a Piece of Paper
Interview with Zoran Kovich – Using Self-Image of a Feldenkrais® teacher
Article by Margot Schaal – Who Am I?
Artistic Reflections on Self-Image – By Dorothy Kristin Hanna
Self-image comes from the core of the being.
Being what?
A human being?
Being still?
Being moving particles?
Being pure spirit?
Self-image, initially, is constructed from perceptions of the mirror-image of the person that is carefully examined by our eyes. We live in our bodies as a “lived body,” as one of my teachers, Sondra Fraleigh, often writes about in her books about dance and somatics. We live in our body and the decisions we make on our path create our self-image.
We are nothing more than a series of images that thrive moment-to-moment on the breath. Breath, being the most vital function, works in harmony with all our physical body’s systems and including our emotional, spiritual, and mental states.
Time is a telescope where our memories continue to color, change and evolve our present moment leading us into an unknowable, but somewhat predictable, future–depending on how we resonate with negative and positive experiences.
What we eat, what we read, what we hear, what we touch, and what we see–all create a response in our self-image. We share our self-image differently in different situations, taking in our environment in a wide or narrow or perhaps completely blinded scope.
We widen our scope for reality as we understand that there is nothing separate from us. We are all living in the world the same way: in a body, with our self-image changing moment to moment.
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Using Self-Image Concept in Teaching – Interview with Larry Goldfarb
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This is Not a Piece of Paper – Article by Al Wadleigh
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Using Self-Image of a Feldenkrais teacher – Interview with Zoran Kovich
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Who Am I? – Article by Margot Schaal
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2022-jan Newsletter Source-Self-Image of a Feldenkrais® Teacher
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