Continuing the conversation

The next installment of A feeling for gravity is coming up on Monday, 6 July, at 9:30 AM Pacific time. 

During these live feeling4gravity online meetings, I continue my conversation with engineer, psychologist, and NASA scientist Gary Riccio about the connection between Moshe’s method and movement science. We started talking back in the spring of 1989 and haven’t stopped. 

Our first conversation followed my guest lecture for the Kinesiology Department at the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana. Gary came up to introduce himself and asked if I was familiar with the book Perception: The Control of Behavior and its author, William Powers. I told him that I knew him, that we had made acquaintance with each other at the first Gordon Conference on Cybernetics, and that he had attended a talk I’d given on Feldenkrais’ method at a subsequent academic gathering.

During my years as his graduate student, my desk was in the anteroom to Gary’s office. In the days before computers, this would have been where you would find someone’s secretary. Unless one of us was on the phone or in need of focusing on some task, the door between our offices was open and the conversation kept going. We talked about Gary’s research, my classes and my Feldenkrais® practice, applications of research findings and technology to educational endeavors, and so much more. 

We invite you to join us for a feeling4gravity as we continue these conversations online every other Monday morning. Each time Gary and I will discuss specific sensory psychology, kinesiology, or motor control experiments and conceptual models and we will explore how they help us understand the basis of neurophysical learning. 

We will be exploring coordination, orientation, and balance and their relationship to learning in conjunction with The Human Frame, this summer’s Awareness Through Movement® summer camp, during July and August.