Bell Hand Extended
with Assistant Teachers Raz Ori & Anastasi Siotas
As infants, it is essential that we spend time on our stomachs, exploring sensory-motor strategies that we have in common with our reptilian ancestors. This is a critical period in our development, a time in which many of our most essential abilities are learned and developed, including the orientation of our head and neck, directionality, eye coordination, anti-gravity functions, the synergistic coordination of the flexors and extensors, and the abilities that we will eventually assemble into crawling and walking.
Because working in the prone position can yield such extraordinary results and benefit almost every physical difficulty, David developed this ATM-oriented program for Feldenkrais Practitioners to share the ways in which the foundations of well-organized adult movement emerge and unfold on the stomach.
This program features some of David's own developmentally rooted ATM lessons and some profound lessons created by Dr. Feldenkrais. You will learn strategies for helping your students to restore their comfort in the prone position and regain access to long-forgotten neural patterns and critical upright anti-gravitational wisdom. David also addresses how these ideas can be translated into Functional Integration lessons.
Feldenkrais Access presented this workshop December 3-4, 2022.
What People are Saying
"After this course, I am feeling like a baby again that was so deep in myself. Your teaching is an extraordinarily generous gift."
~Lila L.
"It's amazing that I feel so much space around my pelvic floor and a reorganisation of my hips. I feel like a baby again!"
~W.R.
"These are the most introspective lessons. Practicing made me feel humble and reminded me that I’m a life-long student."
~Hozumi Kessler
Learning Online with David Zemach-Bersin
“After fifty years studying the Feldenkrais Method, I propose that one of the most functionally effective and generative positions to work with--in both Awareness Through Movement and Functional Integration-- is prone, lying on the stomach.”
~David Zemach-Bersin
Meet David Zemach-Bersin
Senior Feldenkrais Trainer David Zemach-Bersin met Dr. Moshe Feldenkrais in 1973 and studied with him for over ten years in the U.S., England, and Israel. He also studied extensively in Israel and the U.S., with Gaby Yaron and Yochanon Rywerant, both of whom graduated from Dr. Feldenkrais' first training program. Other influences on his work have been Yang form Tai Chi, Aikido, meditation, systems biology, and phenomenology. He has maintained a private Functional Integration practice since 1977 and is recognized for his contribution to strengthening Dr. Feldenkrais’s legacy. A graduate of UC Berkeley with two years of post-graduate work in physiological psychology, David has created numerous audio and video programs for both Feldenkrais Practitioners and the general public and is the co-author of Relaxercise (HarperCollins). He is a past President of FGNA, and a co-founder of Feldenkrais Resources and the Feldenkrais Institute of New York. David has directed 17 Feldenkrais Professional Training Programs and teaches advanced trainings worldwide. Since 2020, he has been teaching primarily online and has worked to synthesize his thinking and the profound benefits of Dr. Feldenkrais' ideas in programs for both Feldenkrais Teachers and the public, most of which can be found at FeldenkraisAccess.com. David would like to acknowledge his debt to Mark Reese and Dennis Leri, whose intellect and friendship he greatly misses. David and his life partner, Kaethe, live in the Farmington Valley area of Connecticut.
What's Included:
- Eight ATM lessons (29-55 min length)
- Five discussions
- One recorded Question & Answer session
- Lifetime access to recordings
- Option to download
Lessons Titles:
- Joining Lightness & Rolling, Part I & II
- Bell Hand, on your stomach, taking your elbow back
- Bell Hand, Rolling from Side to Side
- Primitive Patterns & the Bell-Hand, Part I & II
- Connecting the Bell Hand with the Feet, Part I & II
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