Seth Dellinger — Movement & Creativity

Online Feldenkrais series with Seth Dellinger:

Discovering Ground Forces

Our ability to move efficiently is entirely dependent on how we interact with the surfaces that support us – especially the ground under our feet, but also every other thing we touch. Learn how to make gravity your ally and experience lighter, more efficient action.

  • 3 Feldenkrais Awareness Through Movement lessons. Access to video recordings.

    1. Discussion about Ground Forces
    2. Using the Floor to Lift the Limbs
    3. Sending Ground Forces Upwards

  • "What a great way to give yourself a full body massage and learn how transfer your weight from muscular to skeletal."

    "This lesson allows you to find the sticky places in your skeleton, from your ankles to your skull. It takes time to peel through the layers of such an ambitious lesson but considering you are analyzing feedback from such a vast area, it is worth investing in the 60+ minutes!!"

    "This lesson is definitely worth it. Working through the elements of the skeleton's inherent ability to lift us was enlightening and even brought me to a moment of awe of how beautifully designed our bodies are. I loved the sensation of lifting the pelvis by transferrring weight up the spine without having to put more weight into the feet. Seth joked about weightlessness but I totally felt it in walking at the end - arches of the feet lifting all the way up through the skeleton to the sky. Yeah!"

 

Vision and Action

How you see the world determines the way you move in the world. Becoming conscious of how you use our eyes habitually and introducing new options into your vision can radically shift the balance of your breath, your musculature and the overall state of your nervous system.

  • 7 Feldenkrais Awareness Through Movement lessons. Access to video recordings.

    1. Vision & Movement as Metaphor
    2. Orienting towards the light
    3. Different Reasons For Differences
    4. Turning the Eyes Smoothly
    5. Eye Glasses & Posture
    6. Counterbalance with the Eyes
    7. Eyes in the Back of Your Head

The Art of Deep Listening

From the day we are born, our ability to learn is based on our ability to discriminate differences. By refining our perceptual skills, we open new doors of possibility in relation to ourselves, our environment, and our fellow human beings. Particularly recommended for meditation practice.

  • 4 Feldenkrais Awareness Through Movement lessons. Access to video recordings.

    1. What is Deep Listening?
    2. Extreme Slow Walk
    3. Deep Listening Experiences
    4. Pulse Relationships

  • “It is magical being led by someone truly passionate about what they are teaching. I have now expanded my self image to include being a deep listener. I have always been a deep listener, I just hadn't realized it before. Thank you, Seth!” - Veena

¡Reimagining Yourself!

¡Reimagining Yourself! is a 12-part Feldenkrais audio series designed to help you tap into your natural creative powers and feel your true potential. Each movement lesson is further enriched with supplementary writing which provides you with a deeper understanding of the transformational processes you are exploring and ideas for how to integrate your learning in the rest of your life. As you discover new freedom in your body, you will also learn how creative movement can become a vehicle to transform all aspects of your life.

  • 12 Feldenkrais Awareness Through Movement lessons. Access to audio recordings.

    1. Breathing Movements
    2. Creating Conditions for Learning
    3. Inhibition and Excitation
    4. Letting Go of Resistance
    5. Making the Head Lighter
    6. Generating Discoveries
    7. Drawing Circles
    8. Feeling it in the Bones
    9. Adaptations with Wings and Tails
    10. Turning Around Your Axis
    11. Deep Listening
    12. Reimagining the Ribs

  • "After this lesson I'm feeling safe, connected, dreamy, full, aware, complete, solid. I was totally absorbed in all the nuances of exploration and it didn't feel like an hour. At the end, expanding out past the limits of the body and then pulling everything back in was incredible. Even the final little bit in standing was so rich - I loved Seth's suggestions to use the awareness we had gained to check, "Are you on your skeleton?"

    “Beautiful. I enjoyed it so much!” - Liron

    “What a rich exploration of the breath! It's been 8 months since I last enjoyed this lesson and I was newly impressed with the many ways one can direct the breath. Although this lesson is almost an hour "simply" lying still the directions were so intriguing that it absolutely held my interest.” - Maureen

    "I had a lot of opportunity in this lesson to practice being okay with not having clarity, not understanding, and not progressing smoothly. I was able to balance on the precipice above frustration and just accept what was there, a taste of being in the moment exactly as it is, as Seth mentions above. I am finding Seth's notes for each of these lessons to be really supportive and helpful for linking the lesson to my whole life."

    "Fantastic feeling the point of initiation for raising my head move right up my spine; beginning at L5 right up to about T3. The image of raising a baseball mitt was very helpful for these challenging sequences. Ankles were very happy at the end."

    "This was so cool. The images of the train cars tapping against one another and of the beads closing up the gaps on the string really worked for me. I loved the sensation of each vertebra pushing up against the next and feeling my head slide upwards on the floor. Creating my own "skeletal consciousness" is so rad."

    "Picturing the wings of each vertebra has added so much nuance to my inner visioning of my spine. Now a few days after doing this lesson the image and sensation is still with me as I move and direct my attention.

    I also love the suggestion in the text to let go, notice more, use everything. It's exciting to carry ideas from the lessons into the ever-spreading palette of life."

Get Hip to Your Full Potential

The pelvis is our power center, but many of us never learn how to use it to its full potential. Discover how more skillful hips make everything you do easier. Reconnect with your creative center to make a bigger impact in the world.

  • 5 Feldenkrais Awareness Through Movement lessons. Access to audio recordings.

    1. Image of the Pelvis
    2. Moving over the Sitz Bones
    3. The Ball and the Bowl
    4. Pelvic Clocks
    5. Standing Up

  • "my legs felt so much longer after doing this lesson."

    "Just what I need to really visualize my pelvis and hip joints. Using the hands to model the ball and the bowl helped a lot. The pace was perfect to be able to explore and imagine and play with differentiation."

    “A slow and pleasant exploration of the elusive hip joint. I am getting clearer on feeling the internal sensation but still foggy on the actual anatomy. This lesson always sends me to the anatomy app I have on my tablet!” - Maureen

    "That was an awesome pelvic clocks lesson. I love the variation with the two clocks and the opportunity to experience the right and left hip joints moving separately (and with such different qualities in my case). As a focus for myself I paid attention to my breathing throughout the lesson - when I was holding it, when it was heavier or easier - and that really helped refine my attention. This series is allowing me to create a nuanced vision of what is going on in the pelvis."

About Seth Dellinger

I am a Guild Certified Feldenkrais Practitioner® and a firm believer in the transformative powers of curiosity and creativity. I discovered the Feldenkrais Method® in 2011 and was immediately drawn to the spirit of “biological optimism” that is embodied in this unique somatic approach. In my classes, I emphasize the potential for every individual to discover new possibilities for more comfortable and joyful movement.  I strive to create a safe a playful atmosphere where child-like exploration is encouraged and celebrated.

In my teaching I draw on lessons from experiences as a musical composer and improviser, immigrant rights activist, factory worker, taxi driver and student of speech language pathology.  Today, I’m an enthusiast of parkour and contact improvisation. I am a co-leader of the experimental DC Movement Research group along with contemporary dancer Juliana Pongutá.  I have recently danced in performances of DC choreographers Michelle Ava and Nancy Havlik.

I am the central organizer of the DC Feldenkrais Festival, a free day-long event that has been held five times since Fall 2014.  I have taught classes in many local venues and made special presentations at the University of Maryland Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center and the Dance Educators Training Institute of the Baltimore County Public School System.

As a young person, my grandfather, David Dellinger, a prominent anti-war activist, best known as one of the defendants in the famous 1968 trial of the Chicago 8, was a hero to me.  He was the first person to show me the possibility of dedicating one’s life to making the world a better place.  At the turn of the millennium, I was fortunate enough to spend a couple of years playing in ensembles of National Endowment of the Arts Jazz Master Anthony Braxton, the first person to show me that the possibility of dedicating one’s life to uncompromising creativity.  In the work of Moshe Feldenkrais, who invited all practitioners of his method to “find your own handwriting”, I have discovered a path where I can use my own creativity to make the world a better place.  It is my greatest joy to help my clients (re)discover their own creative powers in order that they can also make their greatest possible contribution.