The Sensory-Motor Developmental Foundations of the Feldenkrais Method April 20, 2007

This Free evening is a wonderful opportunity to meet Roger Russell (who lives and works in Germany)and to learn more about how The Feldenkrais Method is being applied to the field of child development.

All of life’s activities we are constantly in motion. The significance of this simple fact has
enormous personal meaning for each of us. For example, our inner life and self-esteem are deeply influenced by our comfort and ease of movement. Mobility, coordination, power, and dexterity, all play a role in movement, breathing, looking, touching, communicating, and play. We learn how to weave this mulit-modal movement tapestry in infancy, and our adult movement skills emerge out of these experiences. We do it, without being taught, and without knowing how we accomplished such an extraordinary feat of learning.



This free evening presentation will give you a glimpse into how this process of infant sensory-motor development unfolds. There will be a group Feldenkrais lesson, and Roger will show some video presentations filmed by Roger Russell and his wife, Feldenkrais Trainer, Ulla Schlafke, demonstrating particular themes of infant movement development learning.

Themes will include:

• How an infant learns to coordinate a coherent sense of its body, its sense of self and its spatial orientation


• How new movement patterns emerge and are constructed.


• How new movement patterns develop out of familiar habits.


• How infants change their locomotion patterns from being on all fours to walking upright is woven together from a complex series of new movement patterns.


• How the self-image is built through movement.



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