Chava Shelhav, Ph.D. – How Early Childhood Development Impacts Movement Patterns

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Chava Shelhav, Ph.D. – How Early Childhood Development Impacts Movement Patterns

This online workshop with Chava Shelhav, Ph.D., is an opportunity to deepen your understanding of the developmental stages of early childhood and sharpen your ability to make important observations. By improving our understanding of how childhood habit patterns affect us in adulthood, Chava will provide us with practical tools for improving our practice as Feldenkrais Teachers.

Recent research indicates that motor skills develop concurrently with equilibrioception (sense of balance), spatial orientation, coordination, perception, and sense of self and self-awareness. These skills are essential to the development of our emotional and cognitive systems. Therefore, a lack of maturation or disruption of these skills at an early age may profoundly affect the entire self.

Moshe Feldenkrais based his method on the motor and psychic development of the individual. He researched the components and stages of development, and this knowledge is essential to know how to encounter a person during a Feldenkrais session. Chava’s teaching utilizes research in neuroscience and emphasizes the influence of early development on the individual and their social self. She will demonstrate how a better understanding of the developmental stages can contribute to a wider perspective of both ATM and FI lessons.

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