Brain Shaman

Rich Goldsand: Using Novelty, Movement, and Tensegrity for Self-Understanding & Growth | Episode 47


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This is a conversation with Rich Goldsand, a Feldenkrais practitioner who has been working with athletes, children, and a range of clients all over the world for over 30 years. We talk about how to use movement, novelty, and principles from tensegrity as tools for understanding and changing our self and habits. Through such, we can find points of intersection within our self, body, and life that open up awareness, learning, connection, freedom, possibility, and more. 

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Connect with Rich at: www.feldenkrais-goldsand.net

Join the FREE online course (October 26th, 17:00 Pacific time): www.learnitlive.com/Class/Opposing-Forces-working-together-/23575
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Here are some of the questions we explore in this episode:

  • How does embodiment impact learning and improvement?
  • How can we know and change our habits?
  • Why is movement such a powerful tool for self-awareness and change?
  • How much effort should you put into your actions and movements?
  • How can you change your perception of effort?
  • What are the limits of abstract theoretical knowledge and what role does our direct concrete personal experience play in our education?
  • How does novelty (in movement, sensory experience, etc.) and change to increase learning, neuroplasticity, and self-understanding?
  • How can we change our sensory input (e.g. through our eyes, ears, nose, mouth, etc.) to change our habits in thinking, perceiving, feeling, and action?
  • How can you change yourself and learn new perspectives of yourself by changing how you move and take in the world?
  • Why are mistakes, errors, and novel movements so important for learning?
  • What is the difference between choice and compulsion?
  • What is biotensegrity and how can we use it for habit awareness & change?
  • How can we use opposing movements to increase both our internal and external experience of ourselves?
  • What is the connection between existentialism and Feldenkrais?
  • What are the different kinds of discomfort, and do we need it?
  • How can you use Feldenkrais to improve athletic performance?
  • How can you use Feldenkrais to prevent or reverse aging?
  • What is it about pools or swimming that opens people up socially?
  • How can you use a foam roller to improve how you play a musical instrument or sport?

RESOURCES

BOOKS
 - Being and Nothingness by Jean-Paul Sartre
- Outlive by Peter Attia

PEOPLE
 - Alan Questel
- Anat Baniel
- Clayton Kershaw
- Dick Fosbury
- Jean-Paul Sartre
- Michael Jordan
- Moshe Feldenkrais
- Peter Attia
- Russell Delman

CONNECT & LEARN MORE
 
Rich Goldsand's website: www.feldenkrais-goldsand.net
  upcoming online course: www.learnitlive.com/Class/Opposing-Forces-working-together-/23575

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