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.
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.
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?
What do you do when you can’t think straight, when too much choice feels like a burden rather than a privilege? Practicing Awareness Through Movement isn’t a bad option. It’s a different kind of thinking.
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.
An uncomfortable dream exposes weakness in my armor. What if that weakness was actually a strength? Perhaps it came to remind me of something important. Do you allow yourself this weakness?