by Ruthy Alon
11 DVDs, 55 Processes

The Solutions Programs offer a range of inventive movement processes designed to address common neuro-muscular issues. The course takes place over six days with participants working mainly sitting in chairs, but also sometimes walking or working against the wall. Ruthy Alon artfully guides and empowers participants to access their own, self-correcting intelligence, so that they are able to discover better options for comfortable, coordinated movement. The movement processes are accessible to all ages and abilities and can be done at home.

In order to participate in some of the movement processes you will need a “wrap.” For the fabric wrap, purchase 7 yards (21 feet) of 45 inch wide fabric.

In Solutions 2 Ms. Alon continues the processes started in Solutions One with an emphasis on balance, posture, movements that inform walking and the face. Ruthy Alon's work is based on the Feldenkrais Method's integrative approach to functioning. The program is broken into short processes that participants experience and then can continue to do at home. Both of the Solutions programs explore the reciprocal relationship between the area of suffering and its network of roots throughout the entire body for functioning as nature intended. Ruthy Alon was 92 at the time she taught this program in San Diego, California on one of her last International Teaching trips. Her vitality and focus as she teaches her work can be an inspiration for active creative aging!

In Ruthy’s words: “The Movement Solutions Program applies the Feldenkrais Method's® integrative approach to functioning; exploring the reciprocal relationship between the area of suffering and its network of roots throughout the entire body. The result will be restoration of harmonious cooperation, so that the body is able to work as nature intended. The Movement Intelligence exercises are all designed as self-care strategies so that participants will leave the program with tools they can use at home. Participants will be empowered to awaken their own, self-correcting intelligence, so that their organism is able to overcome its own functional failures with better options for efficient, coordinated action.”

Themes for Part Two

• Posture: There is no pill for posture: Posture determines the quality of moving and vice versa
• Hip joints: Aligning the wheels: The traps of cultural human mistakes in walking
• Equilibrium: The resourcefulness for re-generating balance—the unpredictable brain/body skill which simultaneously engages every cell and fiber of the brain/body.
• Pelvic floor: The integrative anti-gravity lever of the sphincters: Awakening the power and resourcefulness which determines stamina.
• Squatting: To and from the total body primal sitting: The answer to the very useful, deteriorating cultural function of sitting
• Face: Rejuvanation, the reciprocal effect of feeling and tissues design