Alon Talmi

Alon Talmi (born October 7, 1914 in Tel Aviv , † 2001 ) was a professor of chemistry and dean of Tel Aviv University .

biography

Talmi was a son of the journalist Yehoshua Radler-Feldman Ha-Talmi (1880-1957), called Rabbi Binyamin, one of the founders of the Brit Shalom .

In 1934 he was still a member of the Chugim Marksistim (Marxist circle of the left Poalei Tzion ) under his previous name Alon Feldmann .

From 1951 Alon Talmi was Scientific Attache for Israel.

As an accredited observer and scientific advisor to Israel, he took part in the conference on the establishment of a European nuclear research center in Paris from December 17-20, 1951.

From 1960 to 1968 he was Associated Professor of Chemistry at Bar Ilan University .

Since 1961 he also held a professorship at the University of Tel-Aviv.

Talmi's main interest in addition to his scientific work has always been in understanding the interplay between the human mind and the body. He met Moshé Feldenkrais in Paris in 1949 and they soon became close friends. In one of the books that Feldenkrais sent to Talmi, he wrote the dedication: "For my friend Alon Talmi, whose conversations helped me clarify my thoughts far more than I am willing to admit." Talmi contributed significantly to this Feldenkrais came back to Israel .

When he started his first training in Tel Aviv in 1968, Talmi was one of the participants. Then he gave up his scientific work and devoted himself entirely to bodywork.

Functional integration

Talmi attached great importance to the importance of a precise, scientific formulation of the principles that are used in this "technique", although he did not underestimate the great importance of intuition for this work. He had summarized the material that he learned from Feldenkrais and other teachers, and developed from it and from his own research and knowledge so-called "touch lessons". As a teaching concept, these represent the basis for learning functional integration. They allow profound opportunities for improvement of the human musculoskeletal system due to their high effectiveness and precision.

Each “touch lesson” deals with the entire body of the person being treated, but focuses attention on a specific aspect of the physical patterns in individual parts of the client's body.

Different students of Alon Talmis work today with their own variants of his body work, e.g. B. the doctor Katharina Krassnig, the cultural and social anthropologist Nurit Sommer and the choreographer and movement teacher Martin Gruber as well as the Feldenkrais trainer Yeudith Silver.

Awareness through movement

Talmi was convinced that group work ("awareness through movement"), in which the learner only receives verbal guidance from the teacher, is an excellent medium for becoming aware of the freedom of movement in the body - both for young people who are not restricted in their movement patterns as well as for those who have been freed from their restrictive movement patterns through individual work in "functional integration".

However, he considered the same type of group work unsuitable for other people who unconsciously use their chronically restricted movement patterns: In the context of group work, these movement patterns could be reinforced and even lead to injuries. According to Talmi, this danger would be present especially in groups that are too large.

literature

Article by Alon Talmi about his approach to bodywork:

• Alon Talmi: First encounters with Feldenkrais: A Reminiscence. In: Somatics. 4 (1), 1980, pp. 60-61
• Alon Talmi: Functional Integration in psychiatric treatment. In: Somatics , 3 (2), 1981, pp. 48-49
• Alon Talmi: Notes on Functional Integration I. In: Somatics , 4 (1), 1982, pp. 19-20
• Alon Talmi: Notes on Functional Integration II. In: Somatics , 4 (4), 1983, pp. 33-35
• Alon Talmi: 5 women. How individual Feldenkrais work helps to solve psychological problems. In: H. Milz, M. Varga von Kibed: Animate body, embodied spirit. Walter Verlag, 1997

Other texts by Alon Talmi:

• Alon Talmi: Alexander Technique (Lecture). In: Journal of Body Psychotherapy, Issue 19
• Alon Talmi: Alexander Technique II (lecture). In: Journal of Body Psychotherapy, Issue 20
• Alon Talmi, ER Herman, Simcha Harel and Benjamin Peskin: Predicting Acid Requirement in Superphosphate Manufacture . In: Ind. Eng. Chem. , 1959, 51, (5), pp. 675-676
• Alon Talmi, Simcha Harel, Max Tamari: Soluble Phosphate Assay, Rapid Determination of Water-Soluble Phosphorus Pentoxide in Superphosphate and Total Phosphorus Pentoxide in Dicalcium Phosphate . In: J. Agric. Food Chem. , 1958, 6, (8), pp. 589-591
• Alon Talmi, Simcha Harel: Estimation of Moisture and Water of Crystallization by Azeotropic Distillation , in: Anal. Chem. 1957 , 29 , 1694-1697. doi : 10.1021 / ac60131a042

Article on Alon Talmi's bodywork:

• Martin Gruber: Forming forms, destroying forms. Comments on new paths in acting training. In: role lessons, speech training, voice training and body work in training to become an actor. Documentation of the working conference of the Bavarian Theater Academy August Everding April 27–30 , 2000 , Munich 2001, pp. 201–215.

Web links

• ISIB - Institute for Systemic and Integrative Movement Science
• HfS-Berlin: Martin Gruber
• Ygal Sarneh: A revolutionary life (1991)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ blackwellreference.com: Rabbi Binyamin (Ha-Talmi, Yehoshua; Radler-Feldman, Yehoshua) (1880–1957) ( Memento of the original from August 26, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
2. ↑ jewishvirtuallibrary.org: RABBI BINYAMIN
3. ↑ marxists.de: Ygal Sarneh - A revolutionary life (1991)
4. ↑ Who's Who in Israel , 1952
5. ↑ unesco.org: "Convention pour l'Organisation des Etudes concernant la Creation d'un Laboratoire Europeen de recherche Nucleaire" , December 1, 1952 (PDF file; 1.37 MB)
6. ↑ Who's who in Israel and in the work for Israel abroad , 1969, p. 279
7. ^ Who's who in Israel , 1972, p. 342
8. ↑ study pedagogy STUDY GUIDE FOR winter semester 199,697 ( Memento of 5 November 2005 at the Internet Archive )
9. ↑ ISIB - Institute for Systemic and Integrative Movement Theory
10. ↑ hfs-berlin.de: Martin Gruber
11. ↑ deinfeldenkrais.at: Who is Yeudith Silver