Links and Recommendations
The following are links related to Alaya Consulting:
Institute for Internal Transformation
Qigong classes and retreats by Qigong Master, Chris Fernie
New Ventures West
Certifies coaches in the Integral Coaching Method.
"Integrating Rigor, Compassion, and Creative Design : The Promise of Integral Coaching and the Professional Coaching Course"
by James Flaherty and Amiel Handelsman.
You can view the full list of articles here.
Feldenkrais Resources
Classes, articles, tapes, CD's, Books on the Feldenkrais Method
The Feldenkrais Guild
More information on the Feldenkrais Method
Books
Difficult Conversations: How to Discuss What Matters Most, Douglas Stone.
This book offers advice for handling unpleasant exchanges in a manner that accomplishes the objective and diminishes the possibility that anyone will be needlessly hurt. The authors, associated with Harvard Law School and the Harvard Project on Negotiation, show how such dialogues actually comprise three separate components: the "what happened" conversation (verbalizing what we believe really was said and done), the "feelings" conversation (communicating and acknowledging each party's emotional impact), and the "identity" conversation (expressing the situation's underlying personal meaning).
How We Decide, Jonah Lehrer, 2009.
How does the human mind make decisions? And how can we make those decisions better? Drawing on the latest neuroscience research, Jonah Lehrer explains how its a finely tuned blend of both feeling and reason. Which one is more effective depends on the circumstances at hand.
The Potent Self: A Study of Spontaneity and Compulsion, Moshe Feldenkrais, (1985).
Based in physics, Moshe Feldenkrais’s teachings help people extend. This book provides the underpinnings of his work, with emphasis on emotional and neuromuscular linkages. "Moshe Feldenkrais has created a towering body of knowledge. There is no other theory or practice that delves so knowingly and deeply into the relationship between the body, its reflexes, its habitual levels of muscular tension, and gravity. Feldenkrais [is] as seminal to somatics as Freud was to psychology." —Robert Shaw, M.D., Medical Director, The Family Institute of Berkeley, CA
Body and Mature Behavior: A Study of Anxiety, Sex, Gravitation and Learning, Moshe Feldenkrais (1949).
In an intellectually rich and eloquent style, Feldenkrais delves into neurology, prehistory, child development, gravity and anti-gravity, reflexive versus learned behavior, the effects of emotion, especially anxiety, on posture, and most importantly, the inseparability of body and mind.
A General Theory of Love, Thomas Lewis, M.D., Fari Amini, M.D., Richard Lannon, M.D.(2000).
"What is love, and why are some people unable to find it? What is loneliness, and why does it hurt? What are relationships, and how and why do they work the way they do? Since the dawn of our species, human beings in every time and place have contended with an unruly emotional core that behaves in unpredicted and confusing ways." (The New York Times Book Review).
Extraordinary Putting: Transforming the Whole Game, Fred Shoemaker, 2006.
Although this book is about golf, its a treasure trove of brilliance about how quality of awareness is much more important than a list of "tips." It teaches a profound philosophy that in many ways incapsulates several aspects of the Feldenkrais Method.
Train Your Mind, Change Your Brain: How a New Science Reveals Our Extraordinary Potential to Transform Ourselves, Sharon Begley, 2007.
A fascinating exploration of the ways the mind can change the brain. Most interesting is a series of experiments with Buddhist adepts who have spent over 10,000 hours meditating. What these experiments show is tantalizing: it might be possible to train the brain to be better at feeling certain emotions, such as compassion.
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