Somatic Practices & Movement Re-education Flashcards
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In somatic practices, 'proprioception' is best described as:
Answer: The sense of body position and movement arising from muscles, tendons, and joints
Proprioception is the sensory system providing information about body position, movement, and force through receptors in muscles, tendons, and joints.
The Rolfing Structural Integration approach, developed by Ida Rolf, primarily works with which tissue to reorganize the body in gravity?
Answer: Fascia (connective tissue)
Rolfing manipulates the myofascial network — the fascial web surrounding muscles and organs — to release restrictions and realign the body in the gravitational field.
Which developmental movement pattern, central to BMC and Bartenieff work, involves simultaneous movement of both arms and both legs?
Answer: Homologous
Homologous movement involves the upper or lower halves of the body moving simultaneously and symmetrically, as seen in a frog jump or both arms reaching overhead together.
In somatic movement education, 'interoception' refers to:
Answer: The perception of the body's internal physiological state
Interoception is the sense of the body's internal state — including organ sensations, heart rate, hunger, and visceral feelings — increasingly recognized as central to somatic practices.
The concept of 'inhibition' in the Alexander Technique means:
Answer: Pausing to prevent habitual reactive responses before acting
In AT, inhibition is the conscious pause between stimulus and response that allows the practitioner to choose a new, non-habitual action rather than reacting automatically.
Which somatic approach uses 'Functional Integration' (FI) as its hands-on one-to-one teaching modality?
Answer: Feldenkrais Method
Functional Integration is the individual hands-on form of the Feldenkrais Method, where the practitioner guides the student's movement through gentle touch to suggest new neurological patterns.
In the Trager Approach, the quality practitioners cultivate internally before and during a session is called:
Answer: Hook-up
Milton Trager called the meditative, receptive internal state of the practitioner 'hook-up' — a felt connection to a larger field of energy that informs the quality of touch and movement.