Growing Young

$60.00

by Alan Questel

Discovering, laughing, wondering, playing, giggling, novelty, joy, enjoyable challenges, having fun, being silly, doing something ‘just because’... How often do you find yourself in one of these experiences...as often as you used to...as often as you would like? The pleasure you enjoyed as a child, from just rolling around and playing, is embedded in movement and is easier to rediscover than you might imagine.

by Alan Questel

Discovering, laughing, wondering, playing, giggling, novelty, joy, enjoyable challenges, having fun, being silly, doing something ‘just because’... How often do you find yourself in one of these experiences...as often as you used to...as often as you would like? The pleasure you enjoyed as a child, from just rolling around and playing, is embedded in movement and is easier to rediscover than you might imagine.

Utilizing Awareness through Movement lessons you will explore all these facets of your self and find greater access to discovery, novelty, wonder, playfulness, laughter, joy, fun, silliness, enjoyable challenge, giggles, and doing something ‘just because’!

7 Audio CDs

This series is a live recording from the Weekend Workshop: Growing Young

Presented by Alan Questel in Lucerne, Switzerland, May 28-29, 2011

: CD ONE

1. Intro / Learning/ Self Image / How to do the lessons

2. ATM 1: Easy Rolling

CD TWO

1. Discussion: Feeling heavier / How we connect to ourselves…listen to ourselves / Childish…childlike

2. Talk: What makes us old? / Birthdays / Attitude – abilities – routine

3. ATM 2: Habits!

4. Discussion: Our muscular habits / Knowing about our habits

5. Talk: What changes as we get older?

CD THREE

1. ATM 3: Going from sitting to sitting

2. Discussion: Pain / Unstable or mobile?

3. ATM 4: Long leg rolling and…!!! #1

CD FOUR

1. Discussion – Challenge / Using ourselves differently / Movements AND ideas / Courage / Small windows / Small successes / What would be different if… / When I first felt old / Comfort

2. ATM 5: Long leg rolling and…!!! #2

3. Discussion – Cloud 7 / Getting comfortable acting in ways we don’t usually act / If we change...they have to change

CD FIVE

1. ATM 6: Folding and unfolding…a different kind of fun

2. Discussion: Being vulnerable / Moving in the six cardinal directions / How our muscles work in opposition

CD SIX

1. ATM 7: Fun and challenge with your hands and feet

CD SEVEN

1. Discussion: Inner authority / Exercising our brains / Responses in unexpected places / How does a mother do that?

2. ATM 8: Really rolling

3. Discussion: Florence and Rosetta / Feeling successful and continuing to learn
: Alan S. Questel trained directly with Dr. Feldenkrais in Amherst, Massachusettes. Since that time, he has lectured and taught at hospitals, colleges and Feldenkrais Professional Training Programs throughout the world. He is known for his clarity, creativity and down-to-earth style of teaching. He brings a depth of understanding, humor and a gentle human perspective to the learning of the Method and creates lively conditions for learning.

An actor before becoming interested in the Feldenkrais Method, Alan worked and toured with Jerzy Grotowski (My Dinner With Andre) and Paul Sills (Second City, Chicago and Story Theatre). Even today, one of his great interests is the embodiment of creativity, and he has developed a body of work for performers utilizing the Feldenkrais Method. Alan sees the Method as a means for individual maturation, and aspires towards making this appreciable and concrete for his students both in training programs and in his practice.

Growing Young

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