re-reading Dina...

I read Dina recently and noticed a sentence that i found a little suprising... having discussed it with my colleagues they agreed that they had never heard of it and hadn't noticed it before in Dina. I'd be interested to know if any conductors had any thoughts on the following....

(sorry i forgot to note the page number for this quote but wrote the quote down - if anyone finds it then please comment on the post to let people know)

'with a child who has a tendency to stand on his toes, positions in
which the foot is not at a right angle to the leg should be avoided. This
applies to crawling as well as, for example, cross leg sitting'

I can see the logic of this but as a student conductor was never told this and have seen many children who tend to stand on their toes use crossed-leg sitting and crawling. And have used these positions with such children many times - i feel appropriately.


so.... any thoughts?

A Conductive Upringing in YouTube

Sad as it is, on a friday night over a glass of wine with a conductor friend we started looking up CE and other terms on YouTube and in doing so came across lots of links from a woman called Ellen Moore - who i assume is the mother of the child in the videos - Catherine.

There are a number of clips:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RuI1EF60ZD4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RMaMbA5Lgsg&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N_Mpb3ZCEdQ&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uuL_stPkfYA&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UJnL4s0y2eQ&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WP8-M-NkxZk&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lBCL3hZShsY&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iP1v_FwXq7g
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9oIgdrcS9u4&feature=related

... and i think there may be more too.

We were so impressed by the way in which Catherine's mother gave her help when she needed, motivation, rhythm and praise - a model of of a parent practicing a conductive upbringing.

I think, from one of the descriptions that Catherine accesses CE at OMOD in which case i think there must also be praise to the conductor(s) that helped this parent to discover a conductive upbringing.

as for our friday night - So much for a CE-free evening!