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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
Off the Mat: A Feldenkrais Picnic
Perfection is, in itself, an idiotic way of living – Moshe Feldenkrais, Amherst 1980 On Saturday I packed a picnic lunch to take to the Hapgood Wright Town Forest near Walden Pond. My gluten-free goodies included a ripe avocado, a few small tomatoes, a chunk of goat milk cheddar cheese, a plastic container of leftover quinoa salad, an energy … Continue reading
Humpty Dumpty and the Beauty of Feldenkrais
Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall, Humpty Dumpty had a great fall; All the king’s horses and all the king’s men Couldn’t put Humpty together again. – Mother Goose For those who’ve been following my Feldenkrais training, my first segment began with lessons on sucking, revisiting our most primal movement in a considered way. Fast forward … Continue reading
Feldenkrais in ‘The Brain’s Way of Healing’
The Brain’s Way of Healing by best selling author Norman Doidge, M.D. is being heralded in the Feldenkrais community for helping to put it on the map. I ordered it to put myself in the shoes, or eyeballs, of a person first learning about Feldenkrais through Dr. Doidge’s prose. As someone who writes regularly about Feldenkrais experiences that … Continue reading
What’s Pain? A Portal to Feldenkrais Magic
“Pain is the doorway to wisdom and truth” – Keith Miller In a muscle culture that worships six pack abs, where grueling feats are glorified, where “no pain, no gain” is a mantra if not a secular prayer, the Feldenkrais Method might seem as unusual to Westerners as Hogwarts would have seemed to Muggles, had they been allowed to visit. While it … Continue reading
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