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~ Ten Bones for Life® Basic Principles ~
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1. Explorations of options: System chooses what is right for the situation present (Organic Kinaesthetic Learning)
2. Multi-Angle Pressure
3. Learning through Passivity
4. Use of Polarized Movement
5. Awareness of the Posterior
6. Proportional Flexibility
7. Use of surface contact
8. Cultivating the memory of the pathway of pressure
9. Accumulating consensus
10. Deprogramming the compulsive addiction through selective inhibition
The above list of BFL Principles, immediately useful and inspiring, is now ordered numerically to enhance the flow of our reflections and teaching strategies during the coming weeks and months.
*CREDIT: The original list of principles was provided by Carol Montgomery during the Bones for Life® 3 training she taught in Phoenix AZ 2011 as a part of the Integrated Learning Center of Mid America’s (ILCMA )BFL training program.
Bones for Life® and BFL® are service marks of Ruthy Alon.
BFL Principle #2: Multi-Angle Pressure
BFL Principle #3: Learning through Passivity
BFL Principle #4: Use of Polarized Movement
BFL Principle #5: Awareness of the Posterior
BFL Principle #6: Proportional Flexibility
~ Sense when you move with a flexibility that is proportional throughout your whole body and being .. perhaps it brings you a feeling of being sturdy. delicately gentle while being strong .. turning a little this way and that way from your very centre ..
BFL Principle #7: Use of surface contact
Notes from Minal ‘Use of Surface contact; Does leaning differently or lessening the effort on the surface contact invoke differences? What changes does it invite? What new options show up?’
Notes from Kim RW: Katarina has been telling me about these wonderful posts. I have to agree. What a delight to read your comments and to know you from classes. Now, these words have a deeper meaning for me.
Right now, I need to take time to practice. Rush, rush; do, do; things, things; too much, too much; not enough time, not enough time; self-discipline, self-discipline. All this makes me ungrounded like I’m hovering over the surface. Grounding is important in Vipassana meditation. Being grounded helps one to become deeply present with the body, with the breath, and with the world around and within. This is much like Ruthy’s suggestion to surrender to gravity (which can give us contact with a surface). I use the Pum Pum to help get grounded to Mother Earth’s surface
Note from Alfo: “For Nietzsche, the surface is consciousness
From Ecce Homo:
“To become what one is, one must not have the faintest notion of what one is… The whole surface of consciousness – for consciousness -is- a surface – must be kept clear of all great imperatives. Beware even of every great word, every great pose! So many dangers that the instinct comes too soon to “understand itself” —
BFL Principle #8: Cultivating the memory of the pathway of pressure
BFL Principle #8: Accumulating consensus
BFL Principle #10: Deprogramming the compulsive addiction through selective inhibition
Developing BFL Principles
~ Ten Bones for Life® Basic Principles ~
~ Ten Bones for Life® Basic Principles ~
~ Welcoming you to post your notes
1. Explorations of options: System chooses what is right for the situation present (Organic Kinaesthetic Learning)
2. Multi-Angle Pressure
3 ~ Learning through Passivity
4. Use of Polarized Movement
5. Awareness of the Posterior
6. Proportional Flexibility
7. Use of surface contact
8. Cultivating the memory of the pathway of pressure
9. Accumulating consensus
10. Deprogramming the compulsive addiction through selective inhibition
BFL Principles are now ordered numerically (by Katarina)
to enhance a flow of reflections and teaching strategies.
(CREDIT” The original list of titles was compiled during
BFL trainings with Carol Montgomery and Cynthia Allen
and shared with us by Elizabeth Keith.)
1. Explorations of options: System chooses what is right for the situation present (Organic Kinaesthetic Learning)
1. Explorations of options: System chooses what is right for the situation present (Organic Kinaesthetic Learning)
“I avoided this one as I fell into my previous habit to avoid exploration. Before Feldenkrais® came into my life I had just started accepting physical pain as a normal part of getting older and saw no way out of my ailments. Once I re-learned through Feldenkrais that pain (physical, mental or emotional) is just the signal to act or do something different then I was able to let go of the need of other practitioners or doing another ATM to helping me get over my pain. Now I am able to use my own explorations from all ATM and training I have done to help me function better when needed. I am also learning that there will be always a lot more options available then I can explore.” – Minal
3. Learning through Passivity
3. Learning through Passivity
” My perspective of learning through passivity that I find I learn better when I am paying attention to what I am moving but also to the background movement and how it is engaging and connecting to the ground” – Minal S.
This could also apply to BFL # 7 surface contact. – Minal
Lovely: “also to the background movement and how it is engaging and connecting to the ground” – Katarina
5. Awareness of the Posterior
A tiny silver bell for your practice!
Katarina
6. Proportional Flexibility
BFL Principle #6: Proportional Flexibility
~ Sense when you move with a flexibility that is proportional throughout your whole body and being .. perhaps it brings you a feeling of being sturdy. delicately gentle while being strong .. turning a little this way and that way from your very centre ..
7. Use of surface contact
7. Use of surface contact
“I always appreciate rooting back to surface contacts when I get challenged or lost during any ATM or BFL processes. I always come away with newer wisdom filling in to improve my self image through using different angles of pressure or expanding on the same previous angle of pressure. No matter how many times I do the same ATM, it is always different when I am constantly learning from the surface contact.” – Minal
Echoing Minal’s observations ~ with appreciation!!
“newer wisdom filling in to improve my self-image by using different angles of pressure or expanding on the same”
… and “constantly learning from the surface contact.” – Katarina
10. Deprogramming the compulsive addiction through selective inhibition
10. Deprogramming the compulsive addiction through selective inhibition
“Paying attention to the first moments of our thoughts to an emotional response, noticing if is this habitually or automatically programmed response or a fixating (for example wanting to help others) response.
Once you find yourself in habitually state noticing where is tension held in your body and what parts are more in your awareness which parts are missing in your awareness.
Are you able to sense the ground or your feet, your spine, hands Once you start feeling grounded notice with curiosity if you have other options or helpful ways of responding
This will lead you to learn how to de-programming your habits, addictions or over-reactions.” – Minal
References and Further Reflections
A description of the Bones For Life® Wrap
A ready made wrap : fabric for wraps ~ July 3, 2020
~ Welcoming you to post your notes
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~ Developing ways to convey the meaning of "process" in a BFL® title
From Doug B, April 22, 2020
“Guided movement explorations — often of innovative, unusual or unused options — sequenced in “time,” that take you to a more resourceful (healthier) somatic “place”
. . . Best perceived if you attend to your physical sensations / configuration & felt sense of being (e.g., attitude) both before and after each “process.”
It’s good to have multiple levels of description, multiple metaphors, since each will have her own associations and interpretations ;-)
which comes about (where you arrive at) without imitating the final result, (pretending you’re __X_____)
Maria V wrote:
In Movement Intelligence, a process is a short sequence of guided movement variations preceded and followed by a self-evaluation. The sequence is designed to [insert lots of stuff here, the words “organically” and “innate” come to mind :-)]. Processes are done mostly in standing or sitting.
"What Texting can do to your spine" from Elizabeth Keith
TBA
Learning diary & Workbook with appreciation to Terhi Summa
Learning diary & Workbook with appreciation to Terhi Summa
Learning diary & Workbook with appreciation to Terhi Summa
June 2020
Terhi Summa – Senior Trainer for Movement Intelligence
Offered alternative learning suggestions.
Learning diary
A learning diary introduces the reader to the main arguments and other important points of a course through student’s own observations and interpretations. A good learning diary reflects student’s own thought and learning processes, and thus, at its best, it is the result of a “dialogue” between a student and the new information introduced in the course. A student ought to make connections between issues, concepts and topics discussed in the course, and assimilate them into student’s broader understanding of the topic in question. https://people.uta.fi/~atmaso/teaching/learning-diary.html
Work book
Work books may be customized into interactive manuals or on-line databases which are used to help provide structure and depth to the issues being learned.
Workbook usually covers important concepts and tasks related to syllabus. Workbooks are used for solving extra problems and concepts which students have already studied in live classes and from the manuals. In MI typical things for the work book are for example making lesson plans for different kinds of audiences, writing the 10-point analysis or clarifying safety issues in imaginary situations.
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Side-lying and exploring behind with my hand while reaching & painting the space behind me upon waking helps brighten my day.
Learning through passivity – simply learning and observing how the weight shifts on the contact points in any orientation and the changes that follows while coloring in more and more of the self-image.
That’s so nicely put Mínal : “coloring more and more the self image, as in an anatomy coloring book! I loved it
The right relationship with our bodies, the real persuasive dialogue should be established in terms or passivity, otherwise and imposition wouldn’t last long. Our body relies on the familiar to function and while it can indulge in novelty as a way of moving, or acting-reacting, soon or later could find reasons as to why, as an intelligent entity it has chosen certain patterns and made them preferable under certain circumstances, mostly relating to injuries. Then Ruthy comes up with her term Neurological Diplomacy which I find it in a way a form of passive learning, in which one part, the stronger, the clearer, the more reliable, is encouraged to “imitate”, to enact the qualities of the lesser, weaker side. To me this principle has meant the solution to so many of my problems, and I even apply it to other disciplines I practice. But then again Ruthy speaks that “awareness itself won’t solve the problem”. What’s left for us is the constancy of practicing, and to learn how to be soft, gentle, compassionates and sometimes, even passive.
Awareness of the posterior :
I find it a key to a more integrated body in motion. As I’m having difficulties with my right heel I have tried to find out through different combinations of movements what it is that I’m missing. Practice is an ongoing lifestyle for many of us, and sometimes the exploration happens way far from our mats and rooms. I was walking today alongside the Hudson River,
Limping my way to work when I stoped and decided to try a Ruthy’s process: shoulder blades lifting the heels, from Chairs if I don’t recall wrong, and all of a sudden it was revealed to me that the stiffness of my right shoulder blade was the one causing the problem. So I gently went back to walking trying to recall the sensation of having the walking poles from WFL and I found myself more able to lift the right troubled heel. Cause it is the rear what we leave behind, and as the eyes are in the front we tend to think of ourselves as a frontal plane sometimes. Ruthy said that for some indigenous cultures the future was in the back, as it was the unknown and unforeseen. Instead we stare at the past not
Knowing that for something to come forward something has to move on the other direction. That’s the most precious gift, among others, that I got from WFL. The awareness of the posterior, what is that part doing, when I want to move forward.
Luis, wonderful observations. yes, it is all about being in a process of finding more options or differences between our front and back.
Thank you!
Dear Luis, it seems posterior and front is two sides of same coin- yes such a nice commemt…
Unseperable – unity of wholleness
Use of Surface contact; Does leaning differently or lessening the effort on the surface contact ivoke differences? What changes does it invite? What new options show up?
Katarina has been telling me about these wonderful posts. I have to agree. What a delight to read your comments and to know you from classes. Now these words have deeper meaning for me.
Right now, I need to take time to practice. Rush, rush; do, do; things, things; too much, too much; not enough time, not enough time; self-discipline, self-discipline. All this makes me ungrounded like I’m hovering over the surface. Grounding is important in Vipassana meditation. Being grounded helps one to become deeply present with the body, with the breath, and with the world around and within. This is much like Ruthy’s suggestion to surrender to gravity (which can give us contact to a surface). I use the Pum Pum to help get grounded to Mother Earth’s surface.
Lightly Pum Pum to land on the ground of Mother Earth’s surface!
Alfo notes:
For Nietzsche, the surface is consciousness
From Ecce Homo:
“To become what one is, one must not have the faintest notion of what one is… The whole surface of consciousness – for consciousness -is- a surface – must be kept clear of all great imperatives. Beware even of every great word, every great pose! So many dangers that the instinct comes too soon to “understand itself”
“To become what one is, one must not have the faintest notion of what one is… The whole SURFACE of consciousness – for consciousness -is- a SURFACE – must be kept clear of all great imperatives. Beware even of every great word, every great pose! So many dangers that the instinct comes too soon to “understand itself” (emphasis added)
” ‘Nietzsche on the Superficiality of Consciousness’ by Mattia Riccardi. This paper is the highlight of the volume. The background motivation is an attempt to make sense of Nietzsche’s statement that ‘consciousness is a SURFACE’ (EH, Clever 9), which Riccardi parses as the claim that consciousness is in some sense superficial. This claim is then DIVIDED into two further theses which constitute the superficiality of consciousness: (1) consciousness is superfluous (SC for short): ‘we can explain one’s behaviour without appealing to consciousness’ (p.93), therefore consciousness is causally otiose with respect to action-explanations; (2) consciousness falsifies (FC for short): ‘far from revealing the motives of our actions, it rather tends to distort them’ (p.93). The paper defends substantive articulations of these claims.” (emphasis added)
–– From Nietzsche on Consciousness and the Embodied Mind, Manuel Dries (ed.), Nietzsche on Consciousness and the Embodied Mind, De Gruyter, 2018, 350pp., $114.99 (hbk), ISBN 9783110246520.
Reviewed by Jonathan Mitchell, University of Manchester 2019.06.19 https://ndpr.nd.edu/reviews/nietzsche-on-consciousness-and-the-embodied-mind/
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Title: Ecce Homo
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*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK ECCE HOMO ***
CONTENTS
TRANSLATOR’S INTRODUCTION
PREFACE
WHY I AM SO WISE
WHY I AM SO CLEVER
WHY I WRITE SUCH EXCELLENT BOOKS
THE BIRTH Of TRAGEDY
THOUGHTS OUT OF SEASON
“HUMAN, ALL-TOO-HUMAN
THE DAWN OF DAY
JOYFUL WISDOM: LA GAYA SCIENZA
THUS SPAKE ZARATHUSTRA
BEYOND GOOD AND EVIL
THE GENEALOGY OF MORALS
THE TWILIGHT OF THE IDOLS
THE CASE OF WAGNER
WHY I AM A FATALITY
EDITORIAL NOTE TO POETRY
POETRY—
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Perhaps we see what our Gendlin-Aristotle colleagues say about this tomorrow morning …
Such a paradox, but passivity can actually be an active :)
Such a paradox, but passivity can actually be active :)
5. Awareness of the Posterior. How we can experience what is behind for support and follows when we leap forward …