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JANUARY 6, 2023:  ADJUNCT STUDY
WEEK 8 DAY 1 ~~ 3 August 1981 Afternoon Session Tape #66 ~ DVD 22T3 38 – Talk—Improving Eyesight

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NEXT WEEK WE RESUME STUDY OF YEAR ONE WEEK 7

Amherst Training Year 1 Week 7 July 23, 1980
Talk: On low and high-grade energy TP#53 DVD 18T3
ATM Through the gap, hand-held TP#53 DVD 19T1
Amherst Training Year 1 Week 7 July 24, 1980
ATM: Morning prayer TP#54 DVD 19T1
ATM: Differentiation of body through gap TP#54 DVD 19T2
ATM: Onto back – moving head through gap quickly ( part 1) TP#55 DVD 19T2
ATM: Onto back – moving head through gap quickly ( part 2) TP#55 DVD 19T3
Amherst Training Year 1 Week 7 July 25, 1980
Talk: Weber-Fechner law. TP#57 DVD 20T1 … NOTING a Study page ~ ‘The Weber-Fechner-Henneman Movement ..
ATM: On knees flexing pelvis ( part 1) TP#56 DVD 20T1
ATM: On Knees flexing pelvis (part 2) TP#57 DVD 20T1
ATM: On the voice [the tape is stuck around 135 and recovers later] TP#57 DVD 20T1

Amherst Training Transcripts Year 1 1980, © Copyright January 2007. All rights reserved by and to the International Feldenkrais Federation, Paris, France, in cooperation with The Feldenkrais Institute, Tel Aviv, Israel.

Amherst 1980 WEEK 9 DVD ToC (Table of Contents) updated 2023 03 10

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December 2022

We Welcome New Colleagues

Laura Monning, Germany, Graduate of Jeremy Krauss, Vienna 6 in 2015

Nunes Eider, France, Graduate of … a training in France

Introductory Notes & Prerequisites & Navigational References

A study group for Feldenkrais® Practitioners and Trainees in any year of their study to learn and reflect on the Amherst Training materials (1980-1981). The Amherst materials are available for purchase by practitioners and trainees on the IFF Materials Distribution Centre website: https://feldenkrais-method.org/materials/item/amherst-training-transcripts-dvds/
** In order to be a part of this study group you agree to the following:
1/  send Katarina a link or documentation or graduation diploma to show that you are a Feldenkrais Practitioner or Trainee
2/  have purchased or intend to purchase some of the Amherst DVD, VHS recordings, or transcripts from the International Feldenkrais Federation (IFF) or access them via your regional Feldenkrais library and/or Feldenkrais colleagues.
** To receive login details for our Zoom meetings, please fill out this form on this page, thank you.  (here is the URL to this form/page for reference if you wish to invite a colleague https://thinkinginmovement.ca/amherst-study-group/)

Navigating The International Feldenkrais® Federation (IFF) Distribution Center
DROPBOX https://www.dropbox.com/s/pd5xnt0ewb91znm/
PDF https://thinkinginmovement.ca/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/The-International-Feldenkrais-Federation-IFF-materials-compiled-by-Katarina-Halm-Nov-2019.pdf

The Amherst Training materials are already available to all Trainees, and may be purchased online at the IFF website here: https://feldenkrais-method.org/…/amherst-training…/

A free member account is required to gain access to the full catalog of materials, which includes many free materials courtesy of the IFF Archive. To create a Free IFF account use the REGISTRATION link: https://feldenkrais-method.org/registration/

Amherst Study Group: Introductory Notes & Prerequisites

A study group for Feldenkrais® Practitioners and Trainees in any year of their study to learn and reflect on the Amherst Training materials (1980-1981). The Amherst materials are available for purchase by practitioners and trainees on the IFF Materials Distribution Centre website: https://feldenkrais-method.org/materials/item/amherst-training-transcripts-dvds/
** In order to be a part of this study group you agree to the following:
1/  send Katarina a link or documentation or graduation diploma to show that you are a Feldenkrais Practitioner or Trainee
2/  have purchased or intend to purchase some of the Amherst DVD, VHS recordings, or transcripts from the International Feldenkrais Federation (IFF) or access them via your regional Feldenkrais library and/or Feldenkrais colleagues.
** To receive login details for our Zoom meetings, please fill out this form on this page, thank you.  (here is the URL to this form/page for reference if you wish to invite a colleague https://thinkinginmovement.ca/amherst-study-group/)

 

Study Group Previous Weeks

YEAR 2 WEEK 8 DAY 4 ~~ 30 July 1981
Morning Session Tape #63 ~ DVD 21T3
1 – Talk—Gravity and Functional Integration
12 – Questions from Students
Afternoon Session Tape #64 ~ DVD 22T1
19 – Letters From Class Members
25 – Functional Integration Practice—Review of Everything Learned Up to Now

Week 8 30 July 81 Page 6 of 32 ©Copyright December 2005. All rights reserved by and to the International Feldenkrais Federation, Paris, France in cooperation with The Feldenkrais Institute, Tel Aviv, Israel

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Brief Archive
º Noting from our study the week of May 2, 2022: “Changing Habits by Creating Lessons” … beautiful developments. “ If you know what you’re doing, you can improve and be able to do what you want” –– Moshé Feldenkrais Amherst Training Year 2 Week 8 29 July 81 Page 11 of 38 ©Copyright December 2005. All rights reserved by and to the International Feldenkrais Federation, Paris, France in cooperation

º Noting from our study the week of May 9, 2022: “Just overcoming the resistance” … “By making the thing comfortable” (- FI Demonstration–Squatting) “Just overcoming the resistance that he makes himself to do it. How do you do that? By making the thing comfortable” –– Moshé Feldenkrais Amherst Training Year 2 Week 8 28 July 81 Page 45 of 49 ©Copyright December 2005. All rights reserved by and to the International Feldenkrais Federation, Paris, France in cooperation

Current Notes

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  1. happybones
    happybones says:

    AMHERST WEEK 8 July 28 – Aug 1, 1980
    29 July 1980​

    We may review this at some time:
    Morning Session 3 Tape #62 …………………………………. 62-82
    ATM—Voice ……………………………………………. 62
    Talk—The Mouth, Tongue, Jaw ……………………………….. 65
    ATM—Voice (Continued) …………………………………… 66
    Talk—The Mouth, Tongue, Jaw (Continued) ………………………. 68
    ATM—Voice(Continued) ……………………………………. 69
    Talk—Chest and Breathing …………………………………… 72
    ATM—Voice (Continued) ………………………………….. 75
    Talk—Chest and Breathing (Continued) …………………………. 76
    ATM—Voice(Continued) ……………………………………. 81

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  2. happybones
    happybones says:

    AMHERST WEEK 8 July 28 – Aug 1, 1980
    29 July 1980​

    STUDY FOR FEB 3, 2023
    30 July 1980 Morning Session 1 Tape #63 …………………………………. 83-93
    Talk—Scanning Dimensions ………………………………….. 83
    Story—Measures, Mr. Dreyfuss ……………………………….. 85
    ATM—Scanning Dimensions (continued) ………………………… 86
    Talk—How Do We Know?—Our Internal Appreciation ………………… 90
    ATM—Scanning Dimensions (continued) ………………………… 92​

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  3. happybones
    happybones says:

    THEN STUDY LATER INTO FEB/MAR 2023

    TP#63 DVD 22T1 July 30 AM2 58 ATM: Mobility of hip – lying down

    TP#64 DVD 22T2 July 30 AM3 52 ATM: Hand below kneecap, sidelying

    TP#64 DVD 22T2 July 31 PM1 43 ATM: Mobility of the hip – hand under kneecap ( part 1)

    TP#65 DVD 22T3 July 31 PM2 76 ATM: Mobility of the hip – hand under kneecap ( part 2)

    TP#65 DVD 22T3 July 31 PM3 13 ATM: Sitting up with hands under kneecap (part 1)

    TP#66 DVD 23T1 Aug 1 AM1 43 Mon AM 190415 ATM: Sitting up with hands under kneecap (part 2)

    TP#66 DVD 23T1 Aug 1 AM2 26 Talk: Mr. Tel-Oren’s story (Israeli flutist who was shot, recovered using the Method)

    TP#67 DVD 23T2 Aug 1 AM3 91 ATM: Rolling to sit up

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The IFF grants permission to Tiffany Sankary & Katarina Halm to use excerpts of the Amherst training videos in the context of the Online Amherst Study Group. It is understood that these sessions are broadcast via Zoom (or similar) to a closed membership group of Feldenkrais® or Anat Baniel Method Practitioners and Students who have sent details of their training or graduation/certification to Katarina Halm. The video broadcasts will not be recorded. Members of the group will purchase their own copies of the materials to be studied or borrow them from a regional library.