#22 Intense Sensual Awareness — Ryan Nagy
Do you forget your body by spending too much time in the computer up in your head? Your nervous system needs movement awareness to access pleasure. Get the FREE Guide to Awaken Sensuality in www.centrodepoder.com
We very rarely talk about sensing pleasure, like “oh I have this strange pleasure that´s happening all the time. Oh, Doctor, can you help me I, I feel I just feel pleasure in my, on my legs. And I don´t know
where it´s coming from.” - Ryan Nagy
EPISODE´S CONTENTS
0:28 Persevering in awareness
0:50 Ryan Nagy shares he was such a train wreck doing drugs, drinking, living in his car and how when doing the weird movements in Moshe Feldenkrais´s book Awareness Through Movement HE KNEW he wouldn´t do more.
0:18 Perseverance as long as you truste your whole organism and you´re not forcing yourself.
2:05 Ryan´s lunch with John Grinder founder of Neuro-linguistic Programming NLP.
5:23 Depression relapse from spending too much time in front of the computer.
6:00 Getting back on the floor again and do Feldenkrais to get the sensory experience.
6:55 Rebuilding your life again after a relationship breakup, selling the house and moving to another country.
9:19 How we forget parts of our body sometimes by spending too much time in the computer up in your head. The nervous system looses touch with it because it´s not movement. Your body needs movement to know where it is.
10:47 What to do when you can´t really focus your mind in your breath?
11:17 Meditate focusing on your physical sensations.
14:49 “Awareness Through Movement” that´s a brilliant formula right in the title of Moshe´s book.
17:20 Why maybe people don´t want to really know about pleasure.
20:20 How pleasure fits in your experience.
21:08 Pleasure as an experience of easy, an outcome of learning, in a way a mastery. Like the skill of lifting your cup of coffee and taking a sip.
22:08 It´s a societal problem that we don´t talk about pleasure and we lack a framework for understanding pleasure.
20:20 We are disconnected from nature to start with. Pleasure is not only our birthright but an ultimate expression of health.
25:22 We cover up the pleasure and talk a lot about pain and therapy but what about what´s already there. Simply breathing, touching everything is fundamentally pleasurable.
25:58 What happens when you reach a goal and you´re disconnected from pleasure.
26:20 Mike Tyson loosing a fortune and saying that God punishes us by giving us what we want to see if we can handle it.
27:20 Being endowed to desire as the pursuit of happiness but not it´s attainment.
27:52 If you never arrive to satisfaction the circle is never fulfilled. Which is a cause of destruction of natural resources.
28:52 Moshe Feldenkrais opening a chapter of “Body and Mature Behavior: A Study of Anxiety, Sex, Gravitation, and Learning” with “Coitus is a pleasurable act”.
30:00 Moshe Feldenkrais seemed like a very driven man. But what was he driven by? He wasnt driven by sensuality of pleasure. He was a very willted power type of man. Back in the 40s think of the scientific discoveries that were being made, nuclear fission and all these types of things. Ryan Nagy thinks he wanted to be the guy that had been known for solving the mind body problem.
31:50 When´s the real session gonna start wondered Candia Raquel on her first experience with Feldenkrais, becoming aware of her lack of sense-ability perhaps from her aggressive background as a dancer to apply selective awareness on the motto of “train until a bone breaks.”
32:50 Ballet chicks are hardcore. Short careers, injuries and after the season ended pouring their adrenaline into drinking, going crazy or just wanting to sleep with everybody.
33:52 Working your way through pain in ballet training
34:17 How disregarding pain is a disservice to yourself specially when you live for the applause.
35:19 Everyone in the street noticing Candia Raquel´s effortless walk after few days of Bones For Life Applied Feldenkrais training.
36:00 Walking like a river.
37:00 When the perception of yourself is biased.
38:02 Dancing with the mirrors covered. Dancing from the inside out.
38:16 Ohad Naharin, director of the Batscheva Dance Company in Tel Aviv, creator of the Gaga Dance Movement Toolbox and his background in Feldenkrais.
38:57 Not seeing people at all in 10 years.
39:23 People driven crazy by the 2 min sensory scans wanting to get to the movement and the cultural component to it.
40:20 Ryan Nagy studying with many of the students from Milton Erickson.
40:42 Being very specific and clear in the directions of movement leading to precise awareness.
42:12 Ryan Nagy shares a 10 min hypnotic pleasure experience
56:24 Plans for the next episode with Ryan Nagy including chilaquiles!
