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By CAROL MILLS Staff Reporter
To move with the freedom of a child and to open the creative process is the goal of Marsha Paludan's Body Aligning School. The school is based in the School of Ballet, 82 Massachusetts St.
On Tuesdays and Thursdays from 7 to 9:30 p.m., 10 students learn to align their skeletons, to relax their muscles, and to perform various Paludan calls the center of the body.
"I want my students to leave here with an understanding of how the body is designed and how it can work more efficiently." she said.
"By understanding that, they will have a better knowledge of how their imagination works and how to focus their attention better."
PALUDAH BEGAN HER career in dance when she was young, then went on to earn a bachelor's and master's degree in dance.
"I began using body alignment techniques in the 1960s," she said. "I taught at the Lawrence Arts Center and still do. This is the first time I have taught alignment techniques at the Lawrence School of Baller."
Puladan has also taught at the University of Illinois, Dartington College of Arts in England. University College in Chicago and University and the Kansas City Art Institute.
PALUDAN'S BODY alignment techniques originated from the study and work of a registered nurse in the 1920s and '30s. This woman, Mable Todd, and children, and she watched how they moved and learned to crawl and stand.
"Infants have a beautiful and logical progression of learned movements that eventually result in standing and walking." "Paladun said." "They squirm, they roll, they creep, they sit, and they learn to crawl."
"They continually return to the crawling and crouching patterns, so when they finally stand, they are pre-figured falling without getting hurt," she said.
"When they fall they tend to roll and come back up in a crouching position."
A FRIEND OF Paladan's, Barbara Clark, was a student of Todd's, and together the two women developed the learning and movement processes of
"This alignment method teaches the value of simple movement," she said. "The spine is continually sending out energy to the limbs. With a centered movement of the spine we can all work and move more gracefully.
"This method uses images to affect change in thought and movement."
The alignment technique serves as a relaxation device to clear the mind of all but suggested images and to relax the muscles, she said.
"Technically, the bones carry the weight of the body," she said, "and the muscles exist to move the bones, not to hold them in place.
"Once the muscles are free from tension, the body move: naturally and the creative processes can work better."
SIE SAID SIE taught her students to align their skeletons and to free their muscles from tension by asking them to imitate an image or the neuromuscular system.
Students are given drawings of the
Paludan asked her students to imagine three circles with dots in the center. One circle was around the hips, another around the rib cage and another around the shoulders. Each dot in the center of a circle would be centered inside the body.
human skeleton and asked to visualize the structure. From that image they can align their own bone structures according to the image they were just
"Now imagine a camera on the ceiling looking down through the top of your head," she said, "that camera captures the three dots, in each line with the other."
WITH THAIT IMAGE in mind, Paludan said the skeleton will align itself so that all the bones are in the correct position.
the beauty of body alignment is its objectivity." Paludan said. "Because it's based on personal exploration and practical application, you can find yourself centered." "You find yourself centered in all
Once the body is relaxed and the mind is centered on the spine and its energy, Paludan said, the students can learn to roll, to roll and to walk and run with ease.
"You find yourself centered in all physical and mental activities."
Coupled with the controlled and relaxed motions, the student learns to concentrate and to use his or her imagination.
ONCE THE BODY is relaxed and tension free, she said, the mind can begin to concentrate on the imagination and concentration, concentrating on tensing the muscles.
Paludan said she viewed the creative and imaginary process like the process of breathing.
"Inhaling is the taking in of information," she said. "Exhaling is the assimilation and use of that information. The time before another inhalation is the
"A little boy who was involved in one of the children's workshops said near the end of the session that he finally understood the process.
"He said. 'I get it. First you think it, then you see it, then you forget it. Then it happens.'
"That's the way of learning—you get an ah-ha," she said.
She told her students, after they had been through their motion exercises, to think about their breath.
PALUDAN SAID AN important facet of the technique was to understand that the body is rounded.
"Don't think edges, think round," she said
"Can you see the air enter your nose, run along your spine all the way down to your pelvic area?" she said. "Can you see it come back up the front and move through."
"Iimagine your breath making a circle inside your body."
Palanad said they Todd's body alignment techniques had many uses. People will be more relaxed, will have less stress from tense muscles, and their imaginative and creative processes will be enhanced.
Palaulan said she intended to teach the technique this fall at the Lawrence School of Ballet for parents and their children.
"I'm even thinking about doing a workshop for parents and their special children," she said. "The touching and laughter is truly wonderful."
Photo by JILL M. YATES
Marsha Paladun, left, 2023 Tomahawk Drive, instructs students in a body alignment workshop at the Lawrence School of Ballet.
Child restraints promoted
By KATHLEEN J. FEIST Staff Reporter
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration has begun a pilot program promoting the use of child restraints in Lawrence, as well as in three other cities—Seattle, Milwaukee and Iowa City.
Federal grants were awarded to the cities to encourage usage of child restraints through educational programs and the amount of usage through surveys.
Suzanne Coil, coordinator of the Lawrence program, which operates through the Consumer Affairs Office, said that 90 percent of traffic-related injuries to children could have been avoided with a child restraint.
"Some parents say that the child refuses to. "Coil said, "But all that means is that the parent is not willing to enforce it.
BUT, DESPIE statistics, laws, or apparatus loans that emphasize child safety devices' importance, parents have lessons to avoid using them, she said.
poises and are designed specifically for car seats. In fact, Coil warned against plastic feeder seats, which are not sturdy enough for car usage.
"If you start from the beginning, then the child is accustomed to it, and if Mom and Dad are belied in, they will be told the said: 'Children love to imitate.'"
Child restraints resemble small pa-
Infant seats are designed for children weighing less than 20 pounds, and parents can borrow the seats from the Maternal Hospital Auxiliary, Coil said.
After six months, or when the child reaches 20 pounds, the seats must be returned and the parents must buy a child safety seat, a protective shield or a child harness system, all of which can be purchased at an American-made car manufacturers' outlet, Coil said.
Nor are some of the other excuses that the NITSAT receives, such as not using the child restraint when traveling across town at a slow speed, she
"Speed is not the only factor," she said. "Eighty percent of accidents happen within a 25-mile radius of the home."
Holding a child in the lap of the driver does not substitute for a child restraint and should at all costs be avoided. Coi said. The child usually becomes a buffer for the adult in this situation and the parent does not
have the strength to hold the child back.
Parents usually claim that safety belts and child restraints keep the driver and passenger from jumping out when the car becomes submerged in water or blows up in flames, she said.
"It just doesn't pan out," she said. "People are 25 times more likely to be thrown out."
However, only .05 percent of traffic-related deaths are caused by fire or water, she said
CURRENTLY, ONLY 18 percent of families with small children are using child restraining devices, she said.
"We know we're fighting a battle."
Coil said she was glad to see the Child Passenger Safety Act become a law in January 1, 1982, but was disappointing with its enforcement.
"The law has a point but no牙." she said. "All it can do is warn."
THE KANASSA LAW, which enforces the use of child safety devices for children under two years of age, can be used to prevent a warning by a law enforcement officer.
But Coil said that parents should care for their child's safety with or without a law.
"It's too bad we need a law telling us how to take care of a child," she said.
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MAYOR MARCI FRANCISCO, who attended the meeting, said the city's interest in transportation was like its interest in downtown development. The city already exists as well as encourage improvements, she said.
The mayor said she thought the city expenses for street repairs and police enforcement of traffic regulations should be considered transportation costs.
"The city already invests money in transportation," Francisco said. "We should always be analyzing our investments."
Board to study public transportation
The board, formed this spring, will investigate public transportation, the use of automobiles, buses and taxis and transportation for special populations such as elderly and physically handicapped people. John Myers, board member of the Bureau and Visitors Bureau of the Lawrence Chamber of Commerce, said Saturday.
Members of the city's new Transportation Advisory Board used their first meeting Thursday afternoon at City Hall to get acquainted.
The board will have to define its priorities, he said, because transportation is such a general area.
The resolution that created the Transportation Advisory Board says the board should have representatives of transportation providers, consumers and transportation-dependent businesses.
LAWRENCE HAS A bus service financed by the University of Kansas, buses serving Unified School District and transportation programs for the elderly.
According to the resolution, the board may have five to seven members. The mayor has asked the present board to hold meetings for the indications for the two remaining positions.
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