Sensory Awareness: Rediscovery Of Experiencing Through The Workshops Of Charlotte Selver

264 Pages·1986·31.661 MB·English

by  Charles V.M. Brooks

SENSORY
AWARENESS
THE REDISCOVERY
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OF
THROUGH
WORKSHOPS
* WITH «
CHARLOTTE
SELVER
BY CHARLES BROOKS
V.W.

SENSORY AWARENESS

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FELIX MORROW/Publisher/Great N »V York
Copyright © 1986, 1974 by Charles V.W. Brooks
Published by Felix Morrow
13 Welwyn Road
Great Neck, NY 11021
Originally published by Viking Press, New York
Distributed by The Talman Company
Library ofCongress Catalog Card No. 86-90455
ISBN 0-9615659-2-6
Cover, frontispiece photos ©
Manufactured in the United States ofAmerica
Allphotographs in this book, except those listed below, are by the author.
PAGExii: AlissaGoldring. pages 4, 15, and24: Photo Mariann Reismann,
from Dr. Emmi Pikler, Que suit faire votre bebe, Les Editeurs Frangais
Reunis, 1951. page 27: Ansel Adams page 48: Photo Mariann
Reismann, from Dr. Emmi Pikler, Que suit faire votre bebe, Les Editeurs
Frangais Reunis, 1951. pages 53 and 55: J. R. Harris, Egiiptiau Art,
London Spring Books, 1966. page 60: British Museum. London.
:
PAGE63: Fotocelere, Turin, Italy, page 70: Gregor Krause. Bali: Volk,
Land, Tanze, Munich Gregor Miiller Verlag, 1926. page 71 Vila, Deux
: :
Petits Ours, Guildedu Livre, Lausanne, 1954. RapheGuilhmiettc Pictures.
PAGES 77, 78 (left) Photo Mariann Reismann, from Dr. Emmi Pikler.
:
Que sait faire votre bebe, Les F.diteurs Fran^ais Reunis. 1951. pages
80,81: F. Everling. page 85 (bottom): J. E. Goldthwaiteet aL, Bodi/
Mechanics in the Study andTreatment of Disease, Lippincott, 1934.
page 88: F. Everling. page 89 (top): Heka Davis, page 92: Photograph
by Frances Flaherty, courtesy Flaherty Study Center, page 102 (bottom,
right): Paul B. Herbert, page 105: Vila, Lausanne. 1954 Rapho
Guillumette Pictures, page 135: Alissa Goldring. page 157: Paul B
Herbert, pages 163. 164 Teri Modlin. page 172(top). Photo Mariann
:
Reismann, from Dr. F^mmi Pikler, Que sait faire lotre bebe. Les Editeurs
FrauQais Reunis, 1951. page 177: M. A. Roche, page 204: B.
Moosbrugger. Rictberg Museum, Zurich, page 215: 'Hollyhock." by
Arthur Dove. page 230: Sophie Ludvvig.
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I have no parents
I make the heavens and earth my parents.
I have no home
I make awareness my home.
I have no hfe or death
I make the tides ofbreathingmy life and death.
I have no divine power:
I make honesty my divine power.
I have no means:
I make understanding my means.
I have nomagic secrets:
I make character my magic secret.
I have no body
I make endurance my body.
I have noeyes
I make the flash ofhghtningmy eyes.
I have no ears
I make sensibihty my ears.
I have no hmbs:
I make promptness my hmbs.
I have no strategy
I make "unshadowed by thought" my strategy.
I have no designs:
Imake "seizing opportunity by the forelock" my design.
I have no miracles:
I make right-action my miracles.
I have no principles
I make adaptability to all circumstances my principles.
I have no tactics:
I make emptiness and fullness my tactics.
I have no talents:
I make ready witmy talent.
I have no friends
I make my mind my friend.
I have no enemy:
I make carelessness my enemy.
I have no armor:
I make benevolence and righteousness my armor.
I have no castle:
I make immovable-mind my castle.
I have no sword
I make absence of sel—fmy sword.
Anonymous samurai, 14th century