autonomy in the movement classroom
No matter how skilled a movement teacher is, her students will have a better experience in class if they are skilled at taking care of themselves. If they don’t know how to do this, she can train them.
learning
perceptual flexibility
If you’re trying to expand your limits, what’s your strategy? Increase your strength? Increase your flexibility? What about experimenting with what you perceive?
biological fitness
What is biological fitness? It’s what’s important to any living creature: making the experience of the world stable, safe and potent. The Feldenkrais Method was designed to help human beings live this way.
seeing the world through valentine tinted glasses
It’s not so easy to “love thy neighbor” all the time, even if we agree that the world would be a better place if we all did. But we all have some people we find easy to love. They can be our teachers.
“why are we doing this?”
It’s hard to stick with a disciplined practice of any kind if you don’t know why you’re doing what you’re doing. That’s why I’m teach Feldenkrais differently these days – so you’ll know why it’s worth it for you to engage.