A Breath - Godard Hubert

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Résumé :
Like philosophers of antiquity for whom teaching was in service to a way of life, Hubert Godard proposes that we approach breath "in the live" in order to understand the extent to which breathing is a function of our postural attitude in relation to our milieu, the environment. This booklet recalls a practical session during which practitioner and theoretician Hubert Godard shares with a patient his vibrant approach to breathing. He makes available to us the fruits of his passionate research into the sources of human movement.

Biographie:
Hubert Godard has for many years pursued research into the motives of human movement. An injury which prematurely interrupted his career as a dancer led him to investigate the body. He is a student of the approaches to body awareness of Moshe Feldenkrais, Frederick Matthias Alexander, Joseph Pilates and Ida Rolf. He is a member of the international faculty of Rolfing/Structural Integration, maintains a private practice, and teaches in the diverse fields of somatic techniques. He directed the training division for teachers of dance movement analysis at the CND in Paris and co-founded the Department of Dance, University of Paris 8 with Michel Bernard. As a rehabilitation researcher and trainer, he has collaborated on cancer research with the National Research Institute in Italy. His research and teaching embody an original synthesis in which practice is always linked to a deep, ongoing reflection informed by the evolution of knowledge, combining biomechanics with techniques of the body, psychology and the aesthetics of human expressivity.