As you may already know, I am doing most of my Feldenkrais blogging on RyanNagy.com. The main reason is that I have been living in Mexico for three years and “Utah Feldenkrais” is no longer a label that fits me.
I though you might like to know that I may have a webinar series coming up regarding integrating the various “Body Psychotherapies” into a Feldenkrais practice. Many practitioners are already doing so and many are training with Peter Levine of “Somatic Experiencing” fame. For more information, see the blog post: Feldenkrais And Somatic Psychologies, or simply watch the YouTube video. Would like to have your questions on the topic.
Again, if you could have a private conversation with an expert on the topic, what two questions would you like to ask? I would like to know! – Ryan
A comment from YouTube:
Hey Ryan,this sounds like a great webinar idea. I would add the Hakomi Method to the list of modalities. Pat Ogden was a long time Hakomi teacher who was one of the original students with Ron Kurts. She has a strong? back ground in working with attachment which is a key factor in working with trauma symptoms. I use both Hakomi, SE and my Feldenkrais influence in working with the majority of my clients.
From an email sent to Ryan:
my question to you is how can you be an expert answering these
questions if you have not had the experience using somatic
experiencing and feldenkrais. I can share that yes I have studied
polyvagal theory and trained with Chava shelhav in child’space and to get
to thenpoint of your inquiry I have studied se trauma resolution and
what Peter levines work presents is the answer/skill set with how to
create an opportunity to resolve the elephant in the living room that
no one is talking about during the 4 year feldenkrais programs. It has
been a potent learning process.
From Ryan: I am not claiming to be the expert, though I have benefited from these methods. I am bringing experts onboard to talk about these ideas. So, the questions are for them not me.
Ryan
Another email sent to Ryan:
The only question I have is how does F-Krais and Somatic Psychologies link, relate to one another. Without fairly extensive training, study and experience, how can one presume to practise any kind of psychological methodology?
Lisa
My (Ryan) quick response is that these systems are about sensory motor and physiological processes, not psychological processes. I was in error called them “Somatic Psychologies.” However, I will ask our presenter to clarify if we do a webinar.
I just finished my SE training. We (SE/FM) are a very unusual animal
and am still figuring out how I language what I do…happy to talk as
that always deepens my understanding.
….what I’m curious about is
precisely non-specific trauma: the elusive everydayness of it,
particularly as a side effect (or main effect!) of educational
practices. I pulled this from the course description:
“As Žižek points out, the decidedly modern trauma blindsides us:
even experiencing it, it appears to be meaningless, to come from
nowhere. We might even say that the most properly modern trauma is the
inability to be traumatized at all, to experience our trauma–which is
to say, to somehow move beyond its immediate event so that we can feel
it.”
So if Arendt points to the “banality of evil” it seems important to
examine banal, yet pervasive, forms of trauma. Anyway, all that to
say, this is one of the ongoing questions I have: how can we think
about and work with trauma, not just in its extreme and localizable
cases, but also at the subtle threshold with everyday life?
Looking forward to seeing what you pull together.