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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, bending, sitting and standing up, lifting, squatting, walking, climbing stairs, etc. — showing how to recognize when you are supported and when you're not, highlighting 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 are almost 25 hours of material comprising the series demonstrated during one 2½ day workshop from 2009 and another 3 day workshop from 2009 as well a PDF file of the illustrations mentioned in the 2009 workshop. 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 digital 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.
  

  

Contents   Total time: 24 hours, 45 minutes:

Introduction    01 Intro to Standing on Top of the World               99 min. (1 hr, 39 min.) London UK workshop, October 2009   02 Standing on Top of the World 1                      143 min. (2 hrs, 23 min.)   03 Standing on Top of the World 2                      183 min. (3 hrs, 03 min.)   04 Standing on Top of the World 3                      148 min. (2 hrs, 28 min.)   05 Standing on Top of the World 4                      168 min. (2 hrs, 48 min.) Montreal CA workshop, December 2009   06 Standing on Top of the World 1                      158 min. (2 hrs, 38 min.)   07 Standing on Top of the World 2                      163 min. (2 hsr, 43 min.)   09 Standing on Top of the World 3                      124 min. (2 hrs, 04 min.)   09 Standing on Top of the World 4                      135 min. (2 hrs, 15 min.)   10 Standing on Top of the World 5                      166 min. (2 hrs, 46 min.) Illustrations from the Workshops                       PDF file

 
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