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Fun with Time, Space & Cognition
In our work we have learned that there are profound rewards to be had for engaging our habits and working with them: a better understanding of ourselves, a richer and deeper comprehension of the world around us and a way to make our own way. Habits can work for us or against us. The rule, depth and reach of habits stretch from the mundane to the truly cosmic. America’s greatest philosopher, C. S. Peirce, has stated that the so-called Laws of Nature should be called Habits of Nature. He argued that even the laws of nature are subservient to evolution and are not immutable. Modern physics is beginning to agree. These workshops will use Awareness Through Movement® to explore Time, Space & Cognition. The lessons will be presented as kinds of enacted thought experiments allowing us to explore the markers of space and time through a playful engagement with our thoughts, feelings, sensations and actions. Experienced within an embodied framework of actual and imagined action the markers will make self-evident, accessible and changeable the full play of habits that underlie our Being and Becoming.
Reversibility: Coming to (an Under-)Standing
Reversibility -- to know what one is doing and to be able to continue or change one’s course of action -- is central to realizing Feldenkrais’ practical idea of awareness. In this workshop we will take a simple action, coming from lying to standing, and explore it in various ways so that everyone will get a concrete experience of reversibility. Acquiring a felt sense of reversibility has a positive long-term effect on all areas of our lives.
Instructor: Dennis Leri
Tuition: $160
January 28 & 29, 1:00 - 6:00 pm
Aikido of Tamalpais 142 Redwood Avenue, Corte Madera, CA 94925
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Marking and Unmarking Time: Being Time
When is the Past, past? When does the Future become the Present? Time involves making certain markers: Past, Present, Future. Our embodied sense of time, like any other sense, can be refined and deepened to allow us to experience a vastly expanded sense of the Present. One can, in effect, become Time for a time being. By using Awareness Through Movement® lessons to unlearn our habitual markers and measures of time we can alleviate the oppressive feeling that “there is never enough time.”
Instructor: Dennis Leri
Tuition: $85
February 11, 1:00 - 6:00 pm
Aikido of Tamalpais 142 Redwood Avenue, Corte Madera, CA 94925
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Making Space
There are habits – language, tastes, styles of dressing, sleeping positions, etc. and then there are habits– the Laws of Nature, Time, Space and Cognition. For example, it is said that Time flows and that there is a directional arrow to that flow: Past->Present->Future. But what if we treated Time as a habit or even considered that there is no such thing as Time? There are ways to imagine Timeless experience that involve Space moving. It is possible in Awareness Through Movement® to use our attention and intention to perform thought and movement experiments to loosen up our habitual relation to Time. What would that be like? We will find out through using accessible Awareness Through Movement® lessons in an unusual way.
Tuition: $85
Instructor: Dennis Leri
March 10, 1:00 - 6:00 pm
Aikido of Tamalpais 142 Redwood Avenue, Corte Madera, CA 94925
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Introduction to the Feldenkrais Method® with Dennis Leri
In this one-day workshop participants will be introduced to the mode and style of learning called Awareness Through Movement®. There is really nothing like it in terms of its pedagogy and variety. Persons with movement difficulties as well as world-class athletes and performers have all benefitted from participation in Awareness Through Movement® classes and workshops. Come to this one-day introduction and learn unique ways to improve movement, refine sensation, clarify thinking and integrate emotional range.
Tuition: $85
Instructor: Dennis Leri
May 12, 1:00 - 6:00 pm
Aikido of Tamalpais 142 Redwood Avenue, Corte Madera, CA 94925
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Questions: info@SemioPhysics.com or call 415.857.4778
Registration: Send checks payable to “SemioPhysics” to:
SemioPhysics, 12 West Street, San Rafael, CA 94901
Credit card payment is available. Email or call for more information.
Refunds (less $30) given with 2-weeks prior notice before workshop.
Additional Workshops with Dennis Leri
Organized by Feldenkrais® Resources Training Institute*
The Life in a Day of Emergent Awareness
The part is greater than the whole - Sufi Saying
February 26
A Mid-Summer's Dream Intensive
Awareness Through Movement® 5 - Day Intensive
with Dennis Leri & Carol Kress
August 22 to August 26
Sequences with Consequences
How to Get the Most Out of Awareness Through Movement® Lessons
October 21
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