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Feldenkrais
Dear Establishment: Honor the Process
At a party for Clinton supporters in Detroit, many were shocked as results began to flood in – especially as just a day earlier their candidate had in effect called on Sanders to drop out and “end the primary”. – The Guardian I couldn’t find Secretary Clinton’s exact words, but the message, as reported by The Guardian and … Continue reading
Awareness Through Mechanics: Car Inspection as Feldenkrais Lesson
The old me, the pre-Feldenkrais me, might have blown a gasket during my car inspection adventure and, instead, called it a “fiasco”. To recap: my Subaru Forester failed the emission test in Massachusetts as I anticipated it would. After performing a diagnostic smoke test, the garage replaced the catalytic converter and gas cap. I drove off to log 150 miles … Continue reading
A Year Ends. Thoughts on Learning and Possibility.
In a calendar-centric culture, our society has a habit of reviewing the preceding twelve months. We devise lists of “bests and worsts”. We extract lessons and meaning or focus on highlights or numbers. We might evaluate or rank. To cultivate a different habit, I am going to attempt to avoid doing those things in this year-end post. … Continue reading
Watching Soccer Through a Feldenkrais Frame
If I think of achievement principally, I find that some part of myself is always left out. – Moshe Feldenkrais, Amherst Training If Moshe Feldenkrais hadn’t nearly destroyed his knee in a soccer match as a young man, or if he had chosen risky surgery to repair it, he wouldn’t have developed his groundbreaking method that allowed him … Continue reading
Feldenkrais Experiments in Self-Image: Joining a Health Club. Really!?
Are there things you’ve told yourself you don’t or won’t do, because if you did them you wouldn’t be yourself anymore? Then, who would you be and what would you do? Sometimes it’s confusing or terrifying to contemplate who we might be without our ideas about who we are. While such ideas might have served a purpose, if … Continue reading
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