An Awareness Through Movement® lesson. Photo by Rosalie O'Conner.
Two words: Neural rewiring
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A fun little cartoon guy will give you a 5-8 minute lesson
and you can feel better already,
and then you'll have an EXPERIENCE
of neural rewiring and learning.
Three words: Awareness through Movement
Four words: Learning how to Learn
Five words: Transformation thru slow, aware movement
Six words: Expanding horizons thru Learning and Awareness
For a List of Many
Fantastic Benefits,
see:
The Glories of Feldenkrais
The New Website of the Feldenkrais Guild
has excellent routes to understanding this amazing method.
And:
Here's more of how I point to:
What is the Feldenkrais Method?
- This is a system of mind/body whole self learning
based on how we learned
when we were a genius,
which is to say,
how we learned to roll over and sit up and crawl and walk and talk when we were babies. - This is a way of learning how to learn,
based on the primacy of movement in life in genera
l and human life in particular. - Our brains are set up to learn,
and moving is the most primary way
our brains were set into motion (literally and figuratively) to learn,
and learning by moving with awareness
is the quickest and sweetest way
to radically improve almost anything in our lives. - We are alive and amazing and
have a brain
that loves to learn. - By going slow
and minimizing effort
and looking to reduce unnecessary effort
and concentrating on the process rather than achievement,
we can radically improve
the quality of our movement and our being. - This work,
being about learning,
consists of lessons
and these lessons can be with verbal instruction,
as Awareness Through Movement® lessons,
or touch guided lessons,
called Functional Integration® - A man named Moshe Feldenkrais (1904-1984)
had a smart and curious nature
and loved sports and thinking
and wrecked his knees and
set about learning how to heal himself. - He succeeded.
- The ways he discovered involved returning
to a discovery and playfulness
as well as understanding that we function as mind/body unities
and that connection and relationship
and inner functioning/organization were what brought about change. - He discovered,
and created ways for others to discover,
inner learnings and possibilities of transformation,
for both "body" and our whole lives,
that had previously been considered "impossible." - Human beings,
more than any other creature on this planet,
are dependant on
learning
to become who they are in life. - Some of what we learn is stupendous,
to walk, talk, play dodge ball, find a mate and
some of what we learn is "bad habits,"
ways of moving and interacting and thinking
and feeling that
contradict
our having a rich and full life. - A man named Moshe Feldenkrais, 1904-1984,
discovered, in the course of healing his own wrecked knees,
that by focusing on the learning that takes place in the brain and the brain/body,
he could achieve spectacular results
in people as varied as children with cerebral palsy
and star professional basketball players
or world class musicians. - Freedom from being stuck
in habits and patterns that aren't working,
can be achieved by
learning OPTIONS
in ways we move, think and go about living. - This system can seem "slow,"
because it focuses on the little places
that are missing in our inner connection and awareness,
and yet, because it fills in these missing areas,
is much "faster" at achieving
real and organic and long term improvement
and transformation.
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An Awareness Through Movement® lesson. Photo by Rosalie O'Conner.
Here's my winter 2007 update on a brief view of
What is
THE FELDENKRAIS METHOD
The Feldenkrais Method® is a system of mental and physical (and by extrapolation, emotional) improvement based on discovering natural and easy and efficient and pleasurable ways of moving our human mind/bodies. The mind and body are not seen as separate in this system, and the core of improvement comes from awareness, exploration and the discovery of new and non-habitual ways of learning and problem solving. This system was invented by Moshe Feldenkrais (1904-1984) an Israeli physicist, engineer, biophysiologist, educator and judo master, who, in curing his “incurable” knees, found that his discoveries in engaging the nervous system in learning how to learn and integrating ourselves as a whole organisms could help people in many levels.
These levels of improvement can be viewed as subsets of Moshe’s famous definition of the aim of his work:
“Making the impossible possible; making the possible easy; and making the easy, elegant.”
Thus this work has many years of being useful at one level, that of severe limitation, say cerebral palsy or stroke recovery; and at a second level, that of helping people with aches and pains (back, shoulder, hip, etc.) recover their prior mobility; and at the third level, of making the good even better, for artists, athletes and musicians and other high performers who wish to enhance an already excellent state of activity.
The discovery, learning and awareness that are emphasized and developed throughout this work give rise to a view of possibilities far beyond “bodywork.” Once the practice of impossible to possible to easy to elegant becomes repeated over and over, a sense of opening of horizons and possibilities in many areas of life is a common occurrence.
And here's what some others have to say. It's a big system, kind of like ( in many, many ways) answering the question:
WHAT IS LIFE?
and
Here's some prior, longer versions I've written over the last couple of years:
Who was Moshe Feldenkrais?
A New Way of Learning: What Is, Possibilities and Feldenkrais
Feldenkrais and our Big Self
Intro Number Four: Learning as the Core
Intro Number Two: The Elusive Obvious, Movement is Central to Life
Feldenkrais Work as Science, Judo, Learning
Feldenkrais and Judo and a little history
What is the Feldie Method, Differentiation and (always) more
are bound to find many more essays.
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