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Description:

Why this?
Support and balance are the two sides of our most fundamental moment-to-moment relationship with the planet. If you are like most people, you are probably going about your daily life in an uncentered and ungrounded support without realizing it. You may not feel particularly out of support or off-balance, but you are probably feeling the inevitable results—the holding yourself up and sense of weight and working against 'gravity'—that lead to ongoing tensions and effort. This not only wastes enormous energy but all-too-often causes chronic and progressive damage.

It is your birthright to have the poise and grace that come with balanced and supported movement. Without this, your best efforts at freedom and ease will always be undermined, and your sense of calmness and presentness will be lost to you.

What is it?
This series of demonstrations has been developed over the last 15 years by David Gorman to teach people, in a very practical and experiential way, the principles of support and balance and how to live them in everything you do.

The series takes you through simple practical demonstrations you can do at home that will show you clearly through your own experiences the benefits of freedom and ease this knowledge gives you.

It also teaches you how to be in touch with your own system's signals—feedback that will become second nature in guiding you and telling you what you need to know to be in support on the earth, free to respond and present in your life.

Who is it for?
Everyone... After all we all live and work in relation to gravity and the planet - why not make it a friendly and cooperative relationship rather than one of struggle and effort?  Especially valuable for actors, dancers, musicians in their work, athletes, and teachers of body-work, movement, etc.

These recordings are at one and the same time, a practical way to learn this knowledge for yourself, as well as to learn how to go about teaching it to others while adapting it in your own way to your own teaching style.

How is it structured?
This audio recording progresses through the series of step-by-step demonstrations in a natural sequence, each one giving an experience and an explanation of a fundamental principle then leading on naturally to the next step.  

In this way the series builds through daily life activities — standing, walking, bending, sitting and standing up, lifting, squatting, etc. — showing how to recognize when you are supported and when you're not, the resulting freedom and ease of operating in support and balance, as well as the problems and symptoms when you are habitually out of support.

There is almost 27 hours of material comprising the series demonstrated over 3 days of one workshop, a shorter version over 1 day of another workshop, as well as feedback and various supporting material about our structure and function. All this is interspersed with the questions that intelligent people ask and the answers which deepen and clarify the demonstrations and the understanding of the underlying principles.

Note on the recording: These are not studio recordings, but recordings from live interactive workshops. The sound was recorded live on a professional minidisk recorder and is usually of high quality. It captures the flavor of the workshop atmosphere with real people learning and sharing. But occasionally the sound may be fainter due to normal movement activity during the workshop or when overlaid by outside noise. However, on the whole, this should not interfere with your ability to make sense of what is said.
  

  

What does the CD contain? Workshop and Piece Descriptions:

(total time: 26 hours, 54 minutes):

Minneapolis Patterns of Being, November 2003   01 Standing on Top of the World 1   02 Standing on Top of the World 2   03 Standing on Top of the World 3   04 Standing on Top of the World 4   05 Standing on Top of the World 5   06 Standing on Top of the World 6   07 Standing on Top of the World 7 Provence Training Workshop August 2003   08 Standing on Top_Alternate short version 1   09 Standing on Top_Alternate short version 2 Minneapolis Patterns of Being, March 2004   10 Effect of teaching this support process   11 Recap of support-balance exploration   12 Pedagogy-student's or teacher's perception?   13 Q-Where is the support in sitting?   14 Is 'moving at joints' the best point of view?   15 Q-Forces on spine & structure of discs   16 Coordination mechanisms, Proprioception   17 Red & white muscle fibre adaptation Philadelphia Open Workshop, March 2004   18 Suspension System & demonstrations

(running time 17 hours, 5 minutes) 141 min. (2 hrs, 21 min.) 116 min. (1 hr, 56 min.) 169 min. (2 hrs, 49 min.) 160 min. (2 hrs, 40 min.) 197 min. (3 hrs, 17 min.) 114 min. (1 hr, 54 min.) 128 min. (2 hrs, 8 min.) (running time 4 hours, 37 minutes) 142 min. (2 hrs, 22 min.) 135 min. (2 hrs, 15 min.) (running time 3 hours, 2 minutes)    8 min.  23 min.  16 min.  21 min.    7 min.  28 min.  71 min.    8 min. (running time 2 hours, 10 minutes) 130 min. (2 hrs, 10 min.)

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