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Feldenkrais
Awareness Through Mufti: Feldenkrais and…Fashion?!
Moshe Feldenkrais was no slave to fashion. His casual if not indifferent approach to clothing (loose shirts with pens and envelopes in the pockets) and untamed hair reminds me of that of my late father, also a physicist, who at times was oblivious to wrinkles, incorrectly buttoned shirts, a fly away mane and mismatched socks. I learned from one of Moshe’s American students that he … Continue reading
Feldenkrais Off the Mat: One Sidedness
I taught a friend a genre of Feldenkrais lesson where most, if not all, of the movement is focused on one side of the body. Afterwards, we talked about his experience as a student and mine as a teacher. While the lesson facilitated a huge insight about how he moves, and what might have impeded freer movement, he … Continue reading
Feldenkrais Off the Mat: Even Distribution
When I practiced yoga, my teachers emphasized that if our lives weren’t changing off the mat, then we were just exercising, not doing yoga at all. It didn’t matter if we could get into complicated poses if we still cursed in traffic, blamed others, were highly reactive or otherwise kept repeating unproductive habits. Ideally, the calm, peace and connectedness … Continue reading
Everything is Connected: Feldenkrais and Web Design
Learning to think in patterns of relationships, in sensations divorced from the fixity of words, allows us to find hidden resources and the ability to make new patterns, to carry over patterns of relationship from one discipline to another. – Moshe Feldenkrais In Feldenkrais lingo, we say that a movement is “well organized” if nothing … Continue reading
Common Denominator: Moshe Feldenkrais and Gertrude Stein
“Let me listen to me and not to them” – Gertrude Stein “The object of this learning is to remove outside authority from your inner life” – Moshe Feldenkrais Friends invited me to a “Night of Gertrude Stein” at a bookstore the other evening. I knew little about her poetry, save for the oft-quoted … Continue reading
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