Charlotte Selver

Charlotte Selver ( April 4, 1901 in Ruhrort (Duisburg), † August 22 2003 in Muir Beach, California; born Wittgenstein) was a German pedagogue.

Life

In the 1920s, Charlotte Selver met in Berlin Elsa Gindler that explored in their courses, along with their students, as the natural systems of the people can be deployed even in adulthood. Until it was forced to emigrate to New York in 1938, she studied with Elsa Gindler and the music educators Heinrich Jacoby and built the contact in the 1950s again.

1971 " Sensory Awareness Foundation " was founded, a foundation whose goal is the preservation and documentation of Charlotte Selvers life's work. 1995 she was awarded the " California Institute of Integral Studies " in San Francisco honorary doctorate.

Charlotte Selver died on 22 August 2003 at the age of 102 years at their home in Muir Beach, California surrounded by her closest friends and students.

Sensory Awareness

Sensory Awareness goes back to the work of gymnastics and movement teacher Elsa Gindler (1885-1961) and the Swiss music educator Heinrich Jacoby ( 1889-1964 ). They gave their 'work', never a formal name. The basic objective of the Jacoby / Gindler ' between approach is the development of man ( holistic development as development and growth sinngebendem being). Charlotte Selver was a student in Berlin Gindler before they emigrated in 1938 to the U.S. and there introduced this work under the name of Sensory Awareness.

Influences

Cornerstone of the work of Charlotte Selver is the " Learn through the senses ." Selver was convinced that the welfare of the individual, society as a whole as well as the concern for our environment depend on the extent we find a new confidence in organic processes.

With their work, " Sensory Awareness " Charlotte Selver exerted a decisive influence on the "Human Potential Movement " that emanated also from the Esalen Institute, where she taught from 1963. Thus, they exercised an influence on the Humanistic Psychology and the therapies based on. Aspects of their work, in particular his body to feel confident and pursue bodily sensations ( sensory awareness ) were incorporated into many of today's existing methods of body work, body therapy, body psychotherapy and psychotherapy.

Charlotte Selver has in upwards of eighty years of activity, thousands of people touched and stimulated, in the U.S., Mexico and Europe, among them influential figures such as the psychoanalyst Erich Fromm, the Zen philosopher Alan Watts, his teacher Daisetz Teitaro Suzuki and the founder of the gestalt therapy, Fritz Perls, and Moshe Feldenkrais, Ida Rolf and others who taught at the Esalen Institute. This she has done indirectly a key contribution to the Body Psychotherapy.

Sensory Awareness represents the basis of the Esalen massage