Gerda Alexander, a Danish teacher who devised a method of self- development called Eutonie. Like Moshe Feldenkrais, she emphasized intelligence, sensitivity, and awareness rather than simple physical exercize. For them the body was for movement and our ability to respond to the world, so instead of trying to concoct exersizes to promote physical changes such as muscle growth or weight loss, they focused attention on movement itself. They created lessons and experiments to explore how to enhance personal ease, freedom, and well-being. Similar to the Feldenkrais method, Eutonie is an autodidactic method of self-development. ... Dr. Moshé Pinhas Feldenkrais (May 6, 1904 - July 1, 1984) was the founder of the Feldenkrais Method® of movement education designed to improve human functioning by increasing self-awareness in movement. ...
On the contrary, to be "distonic" means either to remain in a state of excessive tension (hiper-tone), or feeling heavy or without force (hipo-tone), or the impossibility of fluctuating outside of a normo-tone in diverse situations.
Gerda postulated that it is "necessary to learn a little more every day about what we are that body in which we can lean on".
At the beginning, GerdaAlexander's personal search in the area of the performing-arts had the premise of achieving the possibility to be able to expres without preset models to interfere in the functional and creative possibilities.
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