May Newsletter

Rosen Method offers a Vision of health and well-being for the body, mind and spirit that enables us to live in the present moment, more openly and fully

Stress, injuries, chronic emotional and physical pain and breathing difficulties are related to muscle tension. Muscle tension limits movement and self-expression, and keeps feelings from our conscious awareness. When we forget how to relax, muscle tension becomes chronic, and we respond to life from a place of contraction, without realizing we are doing so.

Rosen Method body Work develops our capacity for self-awareness through gentle, direct touch, deep relaxation of the body and diaphragm. and verbal dialogue that deepens our inner experience of ourselves.

Please join us for a talk and team demonstration of Rosen Method Bodywork and Movement. The evening will include time to experience receiving and giving Rosen touch, a short demonstration open discussion and time to move gently together.

Heather Brown has taught Rosen Method Bodywork for 19 years. She also teaches meditation, is a mother, a movement teacher, and is in private practice in New York City.

Adrianne Stone is a physical therapist in clinical practice for 26 years. She is also a Trager practitioner, tutor and teacher. She has a Rosen Method Bodywork practice and teaches Rosen Method movement in Westchester County and in New York City.

Marion Rosen has developed her Bodywork system from her 50 years of experience as a physical therapist and health educator, realizing her goal of promoting health and well-being.

There are Rosen Method training centers in ten countries around the world, and five in the U. S.

FLEXIBLE BRAIN QUIET MIND

Exploring Neurofeedback

STEPHEN LARSEN, PhD

Director, Stone Mountain Counseling Center

Thursday June 6, 7 PM

Albert Ellis Institute

45 East 65th Street

NYSGS Members Free

Non-members $5

Dr Stephen Larsen will present visual images on Neurofeedback and how it works, including the notion of how our minds depend upon our brains He will present EEG theory and case histories of people who have been helped by the revolutionary new treatment. The title of Dr. Larsen’s talk is drawn from the book on Neurofeedback he is completing, Flexible Brain Quiet Mind. For background reading, Dr Larsen suggests the recent book by Jim Robbins, A Symphony in the Brain.

Stephen Larsen. PhD, is Professor Emeritus (SUNY at Ulster) and Director of the Stone Mountain Counseling Center, He is the author of Shaman’s Doorway, The Mythic Imagination, and with Robin Larsen A Fire in the Mind.

For more information on Dr. Larsen’s work, his Center, and his books. log on to mythmind.com

Biofeedback subjects study their body’s natural rhythms by watching the monitoring of usually unconscious internal happenings. Participants can learn to influence their blood pressure, heart and lung action, hand temperature and compulsive behavior and other body activities.

Neurofeedback brain-training may be useful in a variety of disorders such as autism, epilepsy, addictions and depression.

A recommended book: Jim Robbins, A Symphony in the Brain: The Evolution of the New Brain Wave Biofeedback. Grove Press, 2000.

COMMUNICATING WITH YOUR BODY

We have not been informed that our bodies tend to do what they are told if we know how to tell them.

- ElmerGreen

ALDOUS HUXLEY ON EDUCATION

A man who knows how Symbols are related to experience, and who practices the kind of linguistic self-control taught by the exponents of General Semantics, is unlikely to take too seriously the absurd or dangerous nonsense that, with every culture, passes for philosophy, practical wisdom and political argument:

SUPPLEMENTARY NOTE TO OUR APRIL MEETINGS,

CAROLE GRAU ON ‘LISTENING’

ROBEN TOROSYAN ON ‘EMPATHY’

“Connect before you correct. By ‘connect’ we mean to empathize with your partner’s feelings, goals, unmet wants, or issues before you seek to corrector help him or her.”

-Dr, Albert Ellis & Ted Crawford

Making Intimate Connections: 7 Guidelines for Great Relationships and Better Communication

Impact Publ. 2000.

ADVANCE ANNOUNCEMENTS

INSTITUTE OF GENERAL SEMANTICS

Summer Seminar-Workshop

7/15–19/02

Alverno College

Milwaukee, Wisconsin

Bruce Kodish, Susan Kodish, Milton Dawes, Jeff Mordkowitz

For information:

nysg.org and go to the IGS link

ALFRED KORZYBSKI MEMORIAL LECTURE

J. Allan Hobson, MD.

Professor of Psychiatry,

Harvard Medical School

Friday, 11/8/02

Yale Club, New York City

Followed by One Day colloquium

Co-sponsored with N Y S G S

Saturday, 11/9/02

Yale Club, New York City

for information,

nysg.org and go to the IGS link

SAN FRANCISCO CHAPTER, I S G S

April 12: June Johnston video and talk on “Teaching and Learning Skills,” and the work of her school, Gateway Learning Center. It serves students with learning disabilities as well as gifted students not sufficiently motivated in public school,

May 10: Wynne Hayakawa daughter of the late Dr. & Mrs. S. I. Hayakawa, and a distinguished abstract artist. She reminisced about growing up in the Hayakawa household, where she acquired G S by osmosis. She described the effect of it on her life and her art.

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