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A Sunday morning inspiration. You and baby Liv find support from the ground.
OMG. What a beautiful video piece. Short and viscerally vivid. Truly you don't have to be interested in movement to be moved by this piece.
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Zen and the Feldenkrais Method | Our Inaugural Interview with Russell Delman
| This is our inaugural podcast! At the beginning you will hear me reference mastering new technology. Although we did a number of recording tests, in fact, this recording does not represent mastery. However, it isn't bad for our first time. And we will get better and better at it. That is the nature of learning.At ILCMA, we are interested in understanding broad range of topics that relate to human development. Russell Delman has had a passion for Zen and for the Feldenkrais Method since his early twenties. He has devoted much of life to understanding his own nature and offers his findings to others. His Embodied Life Mentorship program is one we are very interested in at ILCMA. In the 30 plus years since he began his study with Dr. Moshe Feldenkrais, he has trained over 2500 Feldenkrais Practitioners around the world and maintained a private practice in California. Along with his wife, Linda (also a Feldenkrais Trainer), Russell developed the Feldenkrais-India Project teaching Mother Theresa’s Sisters of Charity to work with brain-injured children. Russell’s approach to his own life, steeped in Zen, Focusing and Gestalt Psychology, is ever present in this interview. |
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Part A - Russell on the Feldenkrais Method, his background in Zen, and how they go together:
Quotable moment:
"The person is now in touch with their life and how it’s expressing itself. In that moment they are alive to themselves. It’s not a mind, or a body or a spirit but it’s a living unity that the person is dropping into. That’s the beginning of the Feldenkrais Method."
Part B - Russell on Higher Purpose and Giving back to Humanity:
Quotable moment:
"There is a fundamental longing within the human being for real connection for something that only happens in the flesh."
Part C - Russell on the Evolution of Consciousness:
Quotable moment:
"Consciousness is evolving. It's not complete. What’s happening right now is the movement from a fear basis of life into taking care of life. I call this the movement from fear to love as the dominate operating principle."
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