The Perception & Action Podcast 389 – Interview with Todd Hargrove, Playing with Movement, The Feldenkrais Method
Feb 15, 2022
Movement expert Todd Hargrove discusses the benefits of exploring movement over corrections, the Feldenkrais Method, and the role of play in enhancing skills and movement capacity. The conversation touches on slow movements for body awareness, movement variability in physical therapy, and the multi-factorial nature of pain.
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Benefit Comes From Exploration, Not Always Motor Change
- Improvements from motor-control exercises often stem from exploration, not the taught motor change.
- People feel less pain after varied practice even when measured motor patterns don't systematically change.
Feldenkrais Roots And Theoretical Links
- Feldenkrais was developed by Moshe Feldenkrais to improve awareness and coordination through mindful movement.
- Todd connects Feldenkrais ideas to Bernstein and dynamic systems perspectives on variability and self-organization.
Explore One Task With Many Constraints
- Use repeated, varied constraints on the same task to let better movement patterns emerge.
- Compare different ways of performing a task and notice comfort, range, and effort to learn options.