Comments on: Getting Comfortable Teaching Feldenkrais https://www.ryannagy.com/2018/getting-comfortable-teaching-feldenkrais/ with Ryan C. Nagy Mon, 05 Oct 2020 19:47:32 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: ryannagy https://www.ryannagy.com/2018/getting-comfortable-teaching-feldenkrais/#comment-260304 Tue, 13 Feb 2018 21:02:29 +0000 https://www.ryannagy.com/?p=5009#comment-260304 In reply to Ruth Roland.

Thank you Ruth! That was great to read. I did not know you were Norwegian. All this time on Easy Feldenkrais I thought you were a native speaker of English. Though in Norway, you do start learning English early, yes?

It took me a while to get used to hearing my own voice as well. I think that happens to most people – they think that there own voice is strange when they first hear it outside their body (so to speak!).

I am glad that you are recording and doing sessions, it is a great way to learn. And then when you review the sessions after doing the recordings you will get even more. I am getting ready to spend an entire day, maybe even two days, reading and reviewing transcripts of sessions that I have taught. I find it very useful for learning to think about and organize sessions and groups of sessions….

cheers!

Ryan

]]> By: Ruth Roland https://www.ryannagy.com/2018/getting-comfortable-teaching-feldenkrais/#comment-260303 Tue, 06 Feb 2018 05:39:31 +0000 https://www.ryannagy.com/?p=5009#comment-260303 I also record for myself! I am a first year Feldenkrais student. Our teacher want us to remember the lessons somatically in our bodies. It takes me a long time to do that! I got so frustrated by reading papers and try to remember all the steps in a lesson. Or the feeling of stopping all the time, because you need to read about the next step. So I started to record for myself. I try to read slowly. I have been recording and translating from English to Norwegian at the same time. And pausing, what does this word means, sometimes translating a bit wrong. And it is really strange first time to listen to my own voice. I thought my voice was deeper. For me, to start to record the lessons I only have written access to is really another way of deep learning. I start to understand what I need. There are some teachers, their voices feel not pleasant, I stop listen to them. I need a calm voice. A voice telling me about every tiny step I need to do. A voice without judgement. A voice telling me it’s okay not being able to do the whole lesson. Some of the teachers forget to tell you about the tiny bits in a lesson. Like having your eyes closed. That’s also frustrating! I love it when you in your recordings tell me to do less, or just imagine a movement. It is so easy to forget that this is not gym, not pressing yourself, no personal trainer pressing you harder and harder.

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