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Feldenkrais Method and Putting

September 13 2003 at 9:33 PM
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Hi Geoff-

You have a very impressive site but I could not find anything about Feldenkrais "Awareness Through Movement" probably the most sophisticated movement (refinement,reeducation,cortical reorganization model. Do you have information about it related to golf or do I need to get to work creating it?

Thanks,

Benj Langdon
Big Sur, California-
no courses here on the mountain but Pebble Beach is not too far!



 
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Somatic Education Coming Soon!

September 13 2003, 9:35 PM 

Hi Benj!

I haven't put the movement awareness stuff on the website yet, because I am currently working thru the materials. Just this week, I have been studying the Alexander Technique via Edward Maisel, ed., The Alexander Technique: The Essential Writings of F. Matthias Alexander (NY: Carol Publishing Group, 1995), and Frank Pierce Jones, Body Awareness in Action: A Study of the Alexander Technique (NY: Schocken Books, 1976). I have been experimenting on the green with postures of the head-neck-trunk as these affect balance and breathing and vision and movement in putting. So far, pretty good! I will also be exploring the Feldenkrais Method, Rolfing, Yogic breathing, and a number of other mind-body integration techniques. I'm well aware of the main Feldenkrais resource websites, including http://www.feldenkrais.com and http://www.feldenkrais-resources.com, and will be starting with those books and articles. As my understanding increases of how these approaches apply in the context of putting, I will certainly be adding these resources to the website with some sort of commentary.

I appreciate your contacting me, and I hope I can learn enough about these somatic education approaches to help others in putting.

Cheers!

Geoff Mangum
Putting Theorist and Instructor
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PS - I have read Big Sur's Michael Murphy's The Future of the Body (Los Angeles: Tarcher, 1992), especially his Somatic Disciplines chapter 18 that covers the Alexander Technique and the Feldenkrais Method. I actually tried to contact him a couple of years ago to let him know about my project, but received no reply.

 
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Re: Somatic Education Coming Soon!

February 10 2004, 5:50 PM 

Hi Geoff,
when are you going to write about whether you found out something?

Axel

 
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