Anat Baniel on Flexibility + Vitality (Feldenkrais Method)
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we just heard that the brain is the most amazing piece of technology
and let us take a look briefly its recent history
uh... back in 1981 Hubel and Wiesel
got the Nobel Prize
for their a groundbreaking research
on cortical plasticity, that means
their ability of the brain
too while you're in structure itself in response to accept on experiences
they've reached the conclusion that after will be called certain critical periods
the brain structures for the most part they're not going to be changing themselves anymore
that was back in nineteen eighty one
and
for human beings
eight-b_
observed that those critical periods a lot of
pieces of those critical beards happen
aided by the age of
who won
inven
they're part of fleet between age
five and ten ten
uh... doctor michael merson inmate the renowned brain sciences
back in the early seventies
uh...
he had a he's met important feature he just told me that last week
whom he admired and respected very deeply
also
advocated against the idea of brain mississippi so that was
aid
not too long ago on hide their
but in the early seventies when doctor myers than it did his research
he's observation is
in his own words
could not make sense in the world where the brain cannot change itself
so
and the only way he could explain what he was finding was any through the idea off it
very plastic brings to a life
fifteen years after that i was sitting in my office with a thirteen month old infant
baby
who was diagnosed by two top new york city attrition
a pediatrician says having
group what they labeled global brain damaged
she had
it truly dire prognosis
they said she will never crawls stand and walk talk
or head any meaningful functioning in adult life
hai
uh...
was unaware of the hugo and we solicitors tional
vp
it
the g_a_t_t_ or may cost the city of the brain
and i've not yet discovered the work of dr michael mirza make another scientist c of
the paper sixty research
never work for the child like there's a fifty four actually she was the very first baby
at her work for you
so my greatest asset that that time
was that and i had no idea what's not possible
i didn't have experienced this personally affair profound changes in my own life
and i made the assumption that there must be correlating changes in the brain
so i went for it
today elisabeth ease uh...
beautiful fully functioning
independent st woman
she has two masters degrees
she's married she also runs her own business
eight today
if indeed they feel free bus tickets for the accepted research shows it didn't
in inaction actually happening
however in dating life most people don't go around thinking about their changing brain
and they're not
many
student n shelley
in fact they bring in the direction that we want for most people
a
in the areas even in areas where it's obvious
the brain does need to rewire
like for instance in rehabilitation
where they say
injury even brain injury
or in certain thickness training musical training and so on
some of the practices of how native people are trained or educated
is not conceive
they've brain doesn't even exist in the computation of how to help people get better
i don't think i'm taking a high command favorite trail in there from time to time i see the
same people
stretching
before the get ready to do their ryan or their walk
in
they placed into the inflicting on the gate and they've been forward
and they start
you know stretching trying to catch their tops
and i've observed overtime victory most of them i'd do not seem to see much off it changed
and the stretching is supposed to increase flexibility and to also
warm up the muscles to prepare for a new york hiking
and are
question whether this is the
best way to to do it and probably some of you hear have tried stretching and have found
that sometimes it's not
quite as beneficial as it's supposed to be
uh...
id number a few years back i work
it briefly we'd be
principal that's your from a well-known
the american dance to
and she's head in she came to me because she had a
uh... lifelong
issue
she could not
lift her left leg behind they're doing in our best click on our best as well
is her
n initiatives that figures was her right leg
and has been stretching of course her whole aide training years and that has not changed
so
how about
redoing and ted like thing here
and i get your all act
standing
and let's give it a try
betsy what we can do
experiment that little bit now i know it's very crowded into theater
strategy and
so
i'm going to ask you
and you're going to do things going to be shown here but just picketed if you don't
understand these tax and so i'm gonna stand here
and i'm gonna ask on a fee to turn about twenty degrees
towards where i'm standing that these in order to create that little bit more space
and spread your legs a tiny paper you know there's not much space to spare the legs there
anyway
and now bend your knees just a tiny little bit
and has gone down
to reach your hand stores the floor victory gently don't pull hard cc confined space to
bend down here hence towards the floor
and come back up betsy plants are no more no need to give
failure amazing
as much as i can see here you go you thank you so much and now
if you are to want to go out further down normally what would you do the would probably
start pulling harder and trying to push harder hoping to somehow get yourself mark
flexible
so how do we try something a little different
you guys in the front row turn around and use the same back of the chairs your is here
the people behind you and all of you just can't squarely to towards me towards the front
leaving on both hands on the chair
spread your legs they've built their band the needs a little bit not a lock
and have the movement in the end of the killings you're going out
julia belly memorandum back
and not bamut your belly button
like it's really interesting
and bed
arch your back as you for real
here at the minimal out
show your tail to keep leaning on the chair with straight arms if you can
and now run your it back pulled the daily you look at your belly button
and then arts your back
let the barely free
and look up now
stop
turned twenty degrees towards me
twenty degrees quickly running out of time here
then there is a little bit
and ever image that your hands
and see if you're going a little further down
all against somebody figure something anyway stand back again
leave out the back of that she regained
and now
you're gonna pull your belly memoranda back except you're gonna turn your head
and pick up and they're your left arm pit
so you're out in your back home in the belly and then looking on the left i'm peter neufeld
like that
than your heart in your back letting that the belly up in looking over
you're left shoulder
and not pull the belly
well at that
end up and they're you're right that aren't there
right now lots of professors here is some answers selected answer u_n_ are carter back
pleasure bailey at the local over a year
right shoulder
excellence
and actor and twenty degrees the same way
and then that optus used
subbing
and
blog anti-gang first
yesterday
employees
front okay
what did you
lie
i hope you can see on map
what just happened where
you just brought tears to happen to have a brain
and that your brain can change
and let me tell you serve their briefcases some of the principles what i call the essentials
that uh... a daddy
we used here want gives you more we've attention something you just heard about
you mostly that tension movement inattention changes the brain extremely quickly
the second thing is slowing down
fair thing you do you think the reduced the force
the for things that you do you think you brought a few variations
and the fifth in your t_v_ set backed off a little bit from your goal to give you freedom
to experiment
is a five of nine essentials
that i used
the dancer
in a few minutes by the way it took about six minutes her
to be able for her brain to figure out how to move her
leggings wags so to say the state
and these are the same principles that they use avert
many years with elizabeth
helping her
move from
in overcome one limitation after the other two issues today
v
muscles just very briefly
justin's subject of stretching are not guilty stretching physiologically it's not like it's
crazy
muscles are built to contract and the contract when their tuition can interfere with their
movements because the brainy sending them to
it signalled the contract at the wrong time
so we have to somehow communicate with their brain to change the pattern with which it
is that organizes our movement
so
these essentials
do not give you see there there's simplicity
somthing movement for the tensions smile
need reduced force variation
falling back into it from the goal
we use them daily
to transform the lives that we work a lot the chilling special needs
autistic children and statement serve a policy in today to disorders
worked with musicians athletes people like that
you take this into your life to take this into your exercise you take this into your
thinking to do research all these principles
actually wake up the brain
and do you think the information
flight including information with me to speak we've which you can do it's remarkable changes
it has enormous implications
for education if we if we can take children that are
really having a hard time learning to read right-wing move and get them all the way through
college
and get them to be a two extremely intelligent imagine what you can do with it
with intelligent people
it's eat provides people back to human dignity said just remember leave you with that thought
that even on a bad day
you
have an amazing brain
and may provide your brain
what techniques
to create can invent for you
it will do it at all times
thank you so much
thank you