"Best Of" Recommendations for May 14 "Move Better, Feel Better" Encore Day
Over 900 viewers for "Awareness Through Movement®: Adapative Athlete Edition" at the Move Better, Feel Better Feldenkrais Awareness Summit.
We are giggling with delight at the fantastic reception. Big up to the ASPNC social media crew! Thanks to their amazing efforts, the Adaptive Athlete team were acknowledged for introducing the Summit to a wider audience. We made the “leaderboard” of Summit supporters. Everyone ahead of us was a Feldenkrais Trainer (or Assistant Trainer) with decades of experience and a mailing list to match.
I especially recommend:
Day 1: Olena is the teacher’s teacher. She knows her anatomy, thinks like a dancer, and can describe it all with perfect clarity.
Day 2: Breathe through your nose. That’s the theme of the day. I was intrigued by dentist William Hang, who helped people eliminate pain by undoing the damage of braces.
Day 3: Alan Questel is all about liking yourself better, and humor is part of his thing. He and Lavinia have a blast during the panel discussion.
Day 4: the anatomy/science nerd stuff with a graduate level anatomy lesson with John Sharkey on fascinating fascia. Roger Russel, one of the original students, deep dive into timing of muscular activation in his talk on the Weber-Fechner-Hanneman. Carol Montgomery’s discussion of foot health was really a lesson in full body connection.
Day 5: I was so caught up with the science, I missed this day.
Day 6: (THE) Natalie Goldberg on Feldenkrais and Haiku. There’s a haiku board where you can drop your submission. Also, my classmate Daniel Banks demonstrates inclusive, supportive language. Bernadette Pleasant defines juicy; more than that she brings the body into the discussion of facing racism.
Day 7: All the talks, including ours, were terrific. Paul Linden demonstrates how lifelong learning can ‘neutralize’ Parkinson’s. Anne Elizabeth Straub is alive!
Day 8: Dr. Albert Wong on the physiological foundations of experiencing and relieving trauma. Therapy professionals will get more out of these presentations than I did.
Day 9: Linda Flanders on running a political campaign using Feldenkrais principles. Extraordinary.
Day 10: The research papers are intensely science nerdish. Any and all will be of interest to people comparing ATM to PT in reducing pain and regaining function.
Also, May 12, meet Mia Segal, beloved Feldenkrais Method grand master. She sat beside Dr. Feldenkrais as he refined the method and has stories!
Thank you Cynthia and Lavinia for your interest in what we're doing up here in the North Country. It's true: we bat above our weight class! Remember: Thanks to the Summit’s generosity, the deadline to purchase Summit merchandise and earn a donation for ASPNC is now May 31! (A whole month more. Thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you!)
