I met with Dennis Leri at his home in San Rafael at the end of March, 2015. In this second half of our conversation we talked about:

• the various phases of Dennis' career
• the shapes of the Feldenkrais community as Dennis saw them
• Feldenkrais in terms of art
• the East-Meets-West dimension of the work
• Feldenkrais as a community of inquiry

To record this interview, I met Dennis in San Rafael where he lived with his wife Maria in a small, cozy place, with a garden level studio where Dennis worked. We spoke upstairs in the front-room for a half an hour (part 1), then we went out to lunch. We continued the interview when we returned (part 2).

I found Dennis remarkably open and engaging, both in this conversation and in general.

I didn’t have a plan for releasing the recording we made, but when he died at the end of 2016, I shared it with people in the Feldenkrais community.

Now I share it here to make it available in a more ongoing way.

Dennis was one of the very important teachers in my life. I’m happy to share this conversation I had with him.

https://feldencast.com/season-2/dennis-leri-pt-2-interview

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I met with Dennis Leri at his home in San Rafael at the end of March, 2015. We talked about 

• the role of recording in the Feldenkrais Method
• some of the concepts that Dennis used to think through what Feldenkrais work is about
• the various phases of Dennis' career
• the shapes of the Feldenkrais community as Dennis saw them
• Feldenkrais in terms of art
• the East-Meets-West dimension of the work
• Feldenkrais as a community of inquiry

To record this interview, I met Dennis in San Rafael where he lived with his wife Maria in a small, cozy place. They had a garden level studio where Dennis worked. We spoke upstairs in the front-room for a half an hour (part 1), then we went out to lunch. We continued the interview when we returned (part 2).

I found Dennis remarkably open and engaging, both in this conversation and in general.

I didn’t have a plan for releasing the recording we made, but when he died at the end of 2016, I felt it would be appropriate to share it with people in the Feldenkrais community.

Now I share it here to make it available in a more ongoing way.

Dennis was one of the very important teachers in my life. I’m happy to share this conversation I had with him.

The first Feldencast interview! I talked with Feldenkrais practitioner and writer, Kim Hansen. 

We discuss Feldenkrais and Kim’s recent writing project, and we cover a lot of interesting ground:

• how Kim got into Feldenkrais
• how she got into writing
• the process of learning to articulate somatic experiences in language 
• current topics like learning online and the various ways to use our attention

I’m excited to present a conversation about Feldenkrais here in the feed because there has always been more to Feldenkrais work than just the movement lessons. There’s a conceptual framework that goes along with it. As Kim will talk about, it’s about more than just sensations!

If you want to read a transcript of our conversation, you can visit the episode page here. I had a lot of fun talking with Kim and I hope you enjoy listening!

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If you'd like to help the Feldencast grow, please share this episode or any other episode that you've enjoyed, especially with family and friends.

Thank you for listening :)