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I Walked The Line - Gait for Wild Human Potential #Gait #Feldenkrais #Acupuncture
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Personally - Each day, as I "walked the line", I became more aligned, within myself. I noticed my stance narrowing,opening my midline, broadening my awareness, gently softening myself to the world.... |
Professionally -
As an acupuncturist and craniosacral therapist I have learned to feel restrictions in my clients lying on the table....during the class, I learned to see those restrictions and how they affect movement and gait...I gained an appreciation of how structural balancing and aligning leads to greater vitality and self expression...balancing the qi, revitalizing the life force energy, opening the midline to the breath of life.
Integrating -
I could feel/see how the VPLH is directly related to the Kidney meridian - starting at K 1, the roman sandle,the first point of the meridian, and moving up the medial aspect of the leg to the dantien, and all that it holds, before moving on and expressing outward to the rest of the body - there's a lot more to that story...
Mimi Tagher, Acupuncturist
Florence. Kentucky
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#Reverb10
The Prompt for December 3 – Moment.
Pick one moment during which you felt most alive this year. Describe it in vivid detail (texture, smells, voices, noises, colors). (Author: Ali Edwards)
Aahh, so glad to move on beyond that 12/2 prompt. Funny how one moment life can be not so pleasant and the next lovely. I could sit and bask for a time just in the opportunity to relive this past years highlights.
There are so many moments in the life of an individual or organization that are ALIVE. Trying to speak for an organization on this one is interesting and yet organizations are made of people and I am part of it's living/breathing capacity. There are moments when teaching our workshops, when something happens that is beyond all expectations. It is rarely something so specific that I can name "it." Yet there is a consistent vivid feeling of electric vibration in my cells, a knowledge that this is beyond me and so much more than I can name or understand, a clarity at how momentous and monumentous the unfolding in our lives right now. I may not get any other feedback for the rest of my days about what happened for these folks in that moment, but it does not matter. I know the journey of becoming more human is filled with these kinds of unknowable and often invisible birthings.
Cynthia Allen
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Writing? Really? #reverb10
The Prompt: December 2 – Writing. What do you do each day that doesn’t contribute to your writing — and can you eliminate it? (Author: Leo Babauta)
Truly this prompt annoys me to no end and so early in the process! Leo Babauta seems to be have presupposed that we are all needing or desirous to write wahy more than we are. In fact write we do at ILCMA. We write newsletters and posts for blogs, twitter, facebook, & linkend. We write articles and document research. We try to write grant applications. Wow this one really brings out the whine in me--which isn't exactly what I would want to take forward and manifest in the new year.
Cynthia Allen
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Ta! Da! Our video, The Seed, on our mission/vision is now ready for your to view.
We hope you will take a few minutes to view and listen. So many people contributed to this project! We have alot going on and wanted to capture as much of it as possible. Who knows you may see someone you know (maybe yourself) and get some needed inspiration.
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2010 Calling; 2011 Community The reverb10 challenge. #reverb10
December 1 One Word.
Encapsulate the year 2010 in one word. Explain why you’re choosing that word. Now, imagine it’s one year from today, what would you like the word to be that captures 2011 for you?
(Author: Gwen Bell)
My one word for Integrative Learning Center in 2010 is calling. As one of the founding members and CEO since its inception, 2010 was a year of realizing we needed to call on others to come forward and develop the vision further and too own that vision. That necessitated my not only issuing the call but learning to let go of the founding interest. It has been an interesting year for sure and an area that I continue to navigate with (I hope) increasing skill and grace.
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In the process of testing group posting options for Integrative Learning Center
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Algiers Memorial Statue: Freedom of Speech; Freedom of Religion; Freedom of Want; Freedom from Fear
My next writings now forming in the background of my mind because this not only the intention of our founding fathers, it is the intention of the Feldenkrais Method and of Integrative Learning Center of Mid America. For ILCMA I would only add Freedom to Serve.
Love spontaneous inspiration!
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Bones for Life Classes Improve Function and Balance in Community-Dwelling Adults
By C. A. Montgomery, MSPT, GCFP, BFLT/T;
C. M. Allen, GCFP, BFLT/T;
S. D. Farber, PhD, OTR, FAOTA, BFLT
Initially this study was designed by Allen/Montgomery with consultation by Farber in the area of data analysis and manuscript review. The purpose of this study was to determine the efficacy of Bones for Life® as a method to facilitate improved functional status in a group of community-dwelling elderly adults at the City of Cincinnati Dunham Recreational Center in Cincinnati, Ohio.
Participants were randomly divided into two groups in which Group One received baseline testing followed by a 6-week Bones for Life course, and post-testing. Group Two received baseline testing followed by 6 weeks of routine activity, a second round of baseline testing to control for the passage of time, a 6-week of Bones for Life course and then post-testing. Quantitative measures were used to assess differences in participant’s functional status (Timed Up and Go, Standing On One Foot, 360 Degree Turn, 20-Second Step Count). Qualitative measures of perceived change in Balance, Posture, Pain/Comfort, Awareness, Function, and Emotion(1) were assessed.
The study is in the final stages of statistical analysis of quantitative data and initial stage of manuscript preparation for publication. Analysis of the raw qualitative data suggest a 68.2% improvement in Function, 50.0% improvement in Balance, 40.9% improvement in Posture and 31.8% in pain reduction.
Target date for Journal submission is June 2010.
(1) These terms are based on how subjects defined their experience during the study and/or were derived/modified from definitions.net and the Merriam-Webster Dictionary.
Awareness: The kinesthetic knowing about one’s self and one’s relationship to the environment.
Balance: The dynamic state or condition where all regions of the body are functionally aligned so that the center of gravity is over the base of support and the body is able to adapt to the changing conditions of the environment. There is equilibrium among the parts.
Function: Improved performance or a newfound capacity to perform an activity for a specific purpose.
Pain/Comfort Continuum: The self reported description of bodily sensation ranging from acute or chronic distress to comfort/ease.
Posture: The arrangement of the body and limbs in relationship to gravity.
For future upcoming classes please check out the following link:
http://www.futurelifenow.com/class-schedule.htm
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How Does Our New Logo Move You?
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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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