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Malcolm Manning Eligible Member // Teacher
IDOCs » Awareness Perception Presence - MA thesis
This thesis is centred on a body of somatic movement work that I have been developing for the last four and a half years under the name Awareness Perception Presence – Somatic Movement Practice As “Invisible Technique (APP). The decision to offer this course marked a significant shift for me as a teacher. Rather than simply teaching forms that I had been taught and making them increasingly my own through the act of teaching them, I felt like I was for the first time embarking on developing my own body of work.
2012.04.21

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Though much of content is derived from two forms of somatic movement education that I have a particular affinity for, the Feldenkrais Method and experiential anatomy, it is supplemented by material that I have either picked up from my study of other somatic disciplines or else invented myself. What marks it out as my own is not so much the con- tent as the form in which I bring it all together and the manner in which I teach it.

This thesis is the written component of a period research into the process of developing of this work. My hope is that in the act of researching it, I might gain insights and make connections that could support the ongoing development of this work, and my teaching practice in general. I also hope, by virtue of the form and context of a thesis, to share something of my process of development with others and in doing so invite dialogue. 


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Ulla Mäkinen Eligible Member // Teacher
2012.08.10
thanks Malcolm for sharing this! I got so engaged reading it that I had to quote you on my anatomy lecture at the Contact Meets Contemporary -festival in Göttingen. I enjoy your way of writing a lot.


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