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About Feldenkrais & TaKeTiNa and their relation to Winter Edition 2011
Michael Schründer
Feldenkrais
lessons lead participants through a process using movement and awareness that is comparable with the way babies and young children learn through simultaneous play and knowledge acquisition. Participants are encouraged to discover for themselves how to organize an action so that their energy is equally distributed in their bodies and used completely for the intended action. This leads eventually to a sense of lightness, flexibility, trust in oneself, presence and aliveness. Access to these qualities is especially important for musicians, because not only fluency of technique but also the intensity of their musical expressivity and creativity depend upon them.
TaKeTiNa
is a unique, musical group process to activate musical and human potential through rhythm. The TaKeTiNa training enables every person to connect with his/her rhythmic ability, conveying rhythm in a way that everyone can very naturally learn and understand. Instead of learning rhythm patterns, the student is led into direct experience with fundamental musical building blocks that are anchored in the consciousness of every person. Participants come into contact with their own primordial knowledge. The body is the primary instrument in this process, through which students experience rhythm directly and intensely.
Feldenkrais & TaKeTiNa together
In both approaches - Feldenkrais and TaKeTiNa - learning is understood as a non-linear process. Sudden, unexpected jumps in development are evidence of this quality. The same is true for all learning processes that go beyond collecting facts or skills and rather activate the development and unfolding of naturally occurring human potential. The non-linear character of learning is especially evident in early childhood development; for that reason, all of the principles that guide the learning process in the Feldenkrais method are based on studies of the first few months of childhood development. Feldenkrais work supports the process of developing rhythm through the voice and the body, as in TaKeTiNa, because coordinating several rhythmic levels at once requires a differentiated organization of movement. Feldenkrais can greatly assist in this process.
Feldenkrais, TaKeTiNa, Techné, Craft, Creativity
If we understand the ancient Greek term Techné to mean "craft" as the kind of knowledge needed to make something, then this implies above all those kinds of knowledge that are achieved through concrete bodily experience. Because they are also "stored" in the body, they can be called on at any moment during a creative process. Through this kind of learning, knowledge builds multi-modal networks and anchors itself deep in the entire nervous system. Ultimately, it is incorporated into the very identity of the craftsperson - in this case, the musician - and provides the very basis for spontaneity and creativity, far more than simply "technical" competence. This is the sense in which the subtitle of one of the most well-known books by Moshé Feldenrkais can be understood - "A Guide To Spontaneity." And this is the sense in which TaKeTiNa training develops a profound rhythmic orientation that goes beyond learned patterns, forming a basis that is always available for the spontaneous creation of improvised music.
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