Shelley Senter: Conscious Awareness, Kinesthetic Intelligence, and the “Self"

FM Alexander coined the term "self" to describe a unity of what we often separate as the mind and the body. This class is about considering this unity, as well as ideas and experiences of simplicity, language, control, paradox, imperfection, the use of the eyes, and kinesthetic listening as a tangible tool for negotiating uncertainty and restoring trust in our selves.

Working with the proposition that we are perfectly designed for movement and balance, readiness, and presence, we can engage our awareness to learn to trust this design. Developing conscious awareness and kinesthetic intelligence, we can learn to un-do or un-learn patterns of interference, creating opportunity for understanding how we use (or misuse) ourselves, for improving our coordination and functioning, and for promoting self-reflection and profound self-knowledge.

The Alexander Technique highlights subtlety, interior space in relation to the space around us, self in relation to others. It is a critical practice of moving, perceiving, and responding to the world consciously and creatively rather than habitually.

Please have enough space to lie down and extend your arms and legs.

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