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About DFA-SOMATIC PATTERN RECOGNITION
When Annie Duggan and Janie French partnered to develop the Duggan French Approach (DFA) in 1985, they brought together many years of experience working with the patterns of holding and unfolding in the human body. Our feelings, thoughts and beliefs inform and enlighten both body and mind. Our consciousness lives in movement. Our movement, however, always involves relationships. Whether physical or emotional, subtle or traumatic, we all establish physical responses in our bodies to the events in our lives. We also form belief systems that are often unconscious. DFA works with these effects which are visible as patterns of holding and alignment. The Duggan French Approach, finely tuned over more than a decade, works deeply and subtly from the inside out to gently release the patterns of tension that impede physical, psychological and emotional well-being. Although deeply rooted in the physiology of the body, DFA goes beneath and beyond the physical to the inner landscape inhabited by each individual client. The work is intimate, gentle and spacious. This allows the client's relationship to her/his inherent patterns of tension to unfold through the inner work.
Both Duggan and French trained with Ida Rolf and Judith Aston and were movement instructors at the Rolf Institute in the 1980s. Their interest went, however, to the ways in which the client's belief system affects the alignment patterns throughout the body. During this time they were influenced by the work of Carl Jung, Ron Kurtz and Michael Conforti. Every individual has unique holding patterns. As a result, each client's work and the unfolding of their pathway with the practitioner is different. The result is greater ease in movement and knowledge of how our emotional well-being effects our structural alignment in gravity, and an understanding of how our patterns both emotional and physical impact our interactions in our lives. The Duggan French Approach weaves together physical, emotional and cognitive awareness in a way that is accessible and useful to each individual client. The client leads the way, which means the way is meaningful and sustainable.
After developing this unique approach, Duggan and French went on to train practitioners in Europe and the United States. There are now DFA practitioners working in Europe and North and South America. Since Janie French's death in 2001, Annie Duggan continues with her mission to bring DFA into greater and greater use through teaching and training programs worldwide.
THE CENTER FOR DFA - ANNIE DUGGAN
12345 30TH AVENUE N.E. SUITE A,
SEATTLE, WASHINGTON, 98125 U.S.A.
206-361-7554, info@dfainternational.com
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