If this is your first visit, be sure to check out the FAQ by clicking the link above. You may have to register before you can post: click the register link above to proceed. To start viewing messages, select the forum that you want to visit from the selection below. |
|
|
Thread Tools | Display Modes |
#1
|
|||
|
|||
Particularly PREGNANT Feldenkrais students and practitioners
PARTICULARLY **PREGNANT** FELDENKRAIS STUDENTS AND PRACTITIONERS...
THE GREAT BIRTH ROBBERY "The Feldenkrais Method is a form of somatic education that uses gentle movement and directed attention to improve movement and enhance human functioning." http://www.feldenkrais.com/method/faq.html ATTENTION Female Feldenkrais students and practitioners - particularly PREGNANT Feldenkrais students and practitioners... Why not direct some attention to birth position and thereby enhance human BIRTH functioning? Semisitting and dorsal delivery positions deny sacroiliac movement thereby closing birth canals up to 30%. "Alternative" delivery positions (side-lying for example) allow maximal sacroiliac movement and thereby OPEN the birth canal the "extra" up to 30%. WARNING #1: Some MDs and CNMwives let women "try" "alternative" delivery positions then move them back to semisitting or dorsal (close their birth canals!) for the actual delivery. WARNING #2: MDs use forceps and vacuums while KEEPING the birth canal closed up to 30%... I hope Feldenkrais practitioners will make birth easier for pregnant students by directing attention to birth position thereby enhancing birth functioning. For pertinent cites and quotes from the medical literature... See Anat Baniel and WOMAN'S WORK (labor & delivery): Gastaldo asks for help making birth easier... http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group...t/message/2326 BEGIN excerpt from Anat Baniel and WOMAN'S WORK... Moshe Feldenkrais was interested in lost movement patterns...but so far I have been unable to find a single reference from him regarding what I call The Great Squat Robbery... See Feldenkrais lesson: Effortless Squatting http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group...t/message/2211 See also: Feldenkrais Method to help babies at birth? http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group...t/message/2212 I am interested in Feldenkrais because squatting is an "excluded and unconsidered" movement pattern and according to the FELDENKRAIS GUILD of North America: "The Feldenkrais Method DIRECTLY ADDRESSES...recovering excluded and unconsidered movement patterns or actions." http://www.feldenkrais.com/standards/index.html (emphasis added) So far the Feldenkrais folks do not seem interested in PREVENTING the exclusion of "excluded and unconsidered" movement patterns! I had thought Feldenkrais folks would be first in line to help prevent The Great Birth Robbery and The Great Birth Robbery... END excerpt from Anat Baniel and WOMAN'S WORK... Anat Baniel never responded. The Feldenkrais Guild responded - but only to say they were not interested. Thanks for reading, Sincerely, Todd Dr. Gastaldo |
Thread Tools | |
Display Modes | |
|
|