Présentation de l'atelier-conférence

Alexander wrote at length about the dangers of the speed at which industrial revolution technologies were developing. He asserted how unprepared the human species was to psychophysically cope with a radically changing environment; for our age too his assertions echo prophetically. As somatic/Alexander practitioners, we see this digital age critically impacting human health, activity. Rochat and others suggest five levels for developing normal self-consciousness; the body-mind is the site of this process, disrupted when prematurely forced (Rochat 2003). Children are being exposed to excessive digital technology even as toddlers, pushed to have a mediated sense of self before it is even fully formed. Disrupted and compensatory neuromuscular patterns ensue. In a workshop, we will explore developmental movement as the antidote to the interference current technology places on bodies. The "new" mediated body can hearken back to our primal ancestors' and childhood capacity for the appropriate balance of intention/attention/activity. Participants will use their digital devices to recognize dissonances in their self-concept/body maps as well as experience the movement antidote.