à la carte spirit by ilona fried
Awareness
Feldenkrais: Roll Your Eyes, Change Your World
Imagine yourself as a complex switchboard of circuitry. Over time, as you’ve developed certain habits, particular wires have been connected to specific jacks in the board. Some connections might be looser than others, and we can easily replug those wires into new jacks. As I discovered ten days ago in my Feldenkrais training, it turns out I can … Continue reading
Feldenkrais: A Gentler Kind of Re-Org
“If you know what you’re doing, you can do what you want.” – Moshe Feldenkrais Did you ever work for a company that went through a re-org? As I recall from my stints in banking and consulting, such shocks to the organism of the business (changing reporting lines, modifying or eliminating roles, etc.) were often preceded, … Continue reading
Feldenkrais: Small Distinctions, Big Differences
“What I’m after isn’t flexible bodies, but flexible brains. What I’m after is to restore each person to their human dignity.” – Moshe Feldenkrais When I began a month long Feldenkrais training in Santa Fe last week, I thought I’d suspend assessing changes in my self and my movement until the four weeks had passed. It turns out … Continue reading
Feldenkrais: Are You Willing to Suck?
On Monday I began a Feldenkrais Training Program in New Mexico, directed by Alan Questel. I’m here, in part, to attempt to unravel my longstanding habit of prioritizing achievement and results over the process of learning itself. Consistent with this desire to privilege the journey instead of the outcome, at this moment I am not “committing” to completing the … Continue reading
Do You Dance with Fear or Trust?
“The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.” – Franklin D. Roosevelt Before I moved to Colorado from Massachusetts, I called a UPS Store in Denver to arrange a mailbox rental until I had an address. The guy on the phone asked me for my name and phone number to reserve it. His … Continue reading
à la carte spirit by ilona fried 
Recent comments