FELDENKRAIS thoughtforms

Awareness of The Fool Archetype Is Helpful?

2011-04-07T16:13:00.000-07:00

art work by www.kimwatersart.net "He who can no longer pause to wonder, and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead; his eyes are closed." -- Albert Einstein As a society, we ridicule the adult who sees life with the innocent wonder of a child...what can we learn from the FELDENKRAIS Method to alleviate this violation of our own capacity for joy and aliveness? Moshe Feldenkrais, who

A Different Sense of Self - Every Day!

2011-03-28T20:23:00.000-07:00

"My training in physics has taught me that there is no such thing as coincidence." - Madeleine L'Engle, A Swiftly Tilting Planet After nursing my sick horse for three days, I lay down on the floor to do a movement lesson. The horse, by this time, was fine. Myself? I was trashed. In the body scan, I noted how crooked I was. My neck was kinked off to the side. My hips were completely

Feldenkrais for the Battered Women of this World...

2011-03-23T09:52:00.000-07:00

"You were kind to me," she said. He made a sound, of wonder or pain; his hold tightened. "I did nothing - " "Your eyes saw me." She paused, gazing back into those strange, bleak years. "No one ever saw me," she whispered... - Patricia A. McKillip, the Book of Atrix Wolfe Globally, at least one in

Self Sabotage: When Your Face Belies Your Words...

2011-03-14T19:19:00.000-07:00

Congruence is when we are saying and doing the same thing. When we are BEING it - that's an even deeper level of integration. Awareness allows us to begin to pay attention to how we are showing up in life. Are you showing up as an old burnt out truck or as the Garden of Eden that is your true Essence? What have you become? When there is a gap between what I say and what I do, my daughter

Which Way Are You Facing? Towards Joy or Pain?

2011-03-05T16:02:00.000-08:00

Integration is when all parts of your Self are going in the same direction! When the parts of your Self are integrated into a whole, there is no need for more power or more control, because harmony is the natural result...Nowadays, the word, 'orientation,' is a buzzword in politics because of the issue of Gay and Lesbian marriage. In reference to which gender a person finds attractive, '

Too Many Choices

2011-02-28T10:59:00.000-08:00

Ever enter a supermarket and go into the deer-in-the-headlight mode? Hmmn, what's the organizing principle going to be today? Is cheap more important than healthy today? Or, is healthy more important than going over budget? Or, are my cravings for junk food (chemically induced corporate control of the masses making the poor especially susceptible) going to win out over my

Hope for Humankind

2011-02-21T10:55:00.000-08:00

When you drive a car, you think it’s the car that has the blind spot. That’s how it’s constructed. Guess what? "You've got mail!" If you're driving, you are a part of the car. That place behind and to the left of you as driver is YOUR blind spot. The inability to see another car coming up on your left when it's really close to your vehicle is YOUR limitation, not the car's. It’s remarkable that

How I Got My Juju Back

2011-02-02T09:31:00.000-08:00

How I Moved Out of Back Pain That Would Have Kept Me From Everything I Love To Do In Life... After all this rain, there is a sun! It would seem I lead a charmed life. After the first six weeks, eventually the buckets of rain washed away all previous footing in the horse corral until the big dutch warm blood, affectionately known as ‘Himself,’ after the Irish tradition, churned up a soupy mess

What's Up With These Changes?

2010-09-20T08:36:00.000-07:00

photo - http://www.photoshopessentials.com/photo-effects/silhouettesThey don't stick.Or, do they?The significant ones do stick.So you do an Awareness Through Movement (ATM) lesson and most of the tiny changes you notice in the way your body is lying on the mat have disappeared from the day before, so what's the point? Here's the deal: the exercise of noticing these little changes is really about

A Touch That Releases Fear

2010-07-21T08:47:00.000-07:00

Wisconsin and me July 2010...touch as a form of communication that provides the freedom to move in unison: in cooperation.I had never been touched that way before. I left that room in awe that there was a way to have an interaction including touch that had no expectations, no strings, no manipulation attached.When I came in, he asked me how I was doing. I said I was tired and my back hurt from

From Debt to Back Pain

2010-03-27T10:35:00.000-07:00

Its like jumping from the frying pan into the fire. After months of seeing your income drop, your tension level sores. But it happens so gradually, you don't notice. One day you wake up and realize you are obsessed with your finances and next thing you know, your back hurts, you can't sit or walk properly and now you not only have no money, you have no money to do anything about your back. If

To Feel, Or Not To Feel in The Information Age

2008-09-29T12:30:00.000-07:00

Sophia came into my office for a functional integration [F.I.] session today.( I have changed her name, lest she be uncomfortable with being put on display for public scrutiny.) She initially came in for shoulder pain, and she was convinced it simply hurts to reach because she is short. Her height is under five feet and she has to reach for everything.The lessons evolved out of the first,

Understanding Can Move Mountains! - Feet Don't Fail Me Now!

2008-08-03T10:19:00.000-07:00

Estes Park, CO. - For those of you new to the world of FELDENKRAIS, this is an example of the kinds of moments of profound insight that rolling around on the floor can lead to. In this case, there was not actually much rolling around. As there are literally over a thousand of these strange movement 'lessons:' the particular lesson that lead to my experience of intuitive clarity was actually a

What Is Integration?

2008-05-03T09:14:00.000-07:00

Learning Without TraumaThe foundation of an integrated structure provides stability, and is an even, regular pattern that is solid and pleasing to the eye...I have just come back from a long ride in the desert. As the miles fly by, the pieces of my life seem to fall into place of their own volition. But it has been a long time coming. That's one of the characteristics of integration. It happens

Are You Response-Able?

2008-04-06T05:13:00.000-07:00

On the surface, FELDENKRAIS seems to be about mobility. Fundamentally, it's about stability. The misconception is that stability is static, like a rock. This may be so for buildings, yet the architecture of a living structure is completely different in it's requirements than an inanimate object. The foundation of stability in living beings is mobility that is free enough to allow for

A FELDENKRAIS Retreat At Schossrueti, Switzerland

2007-10-07T21:54:00.001-07:00

To peek into the magic that awaits in mountains of Switzerland, click on the link below for a slide show! The FELDENKRAIS Retreat will be in March of 2009...We will be doing FELDENKRAIS AWARENESS THROUGH MOVEMENT lessons every morning to ground, center and relax. Find yourself in a mental state far removed from the everyday hum drum of monkey mind. Join us for a journey of self-introspection in

Pain

2007-07-15T08:30:00.000-07:00

"Learning to inhibit unwanted contractions of the muscles...is the main task in coordinated action." - Moshe Feldenkrais, The Potent SelfThe Chinese word 'Song' means relaxation, but not in the sense of eliminating all tension. Rather, it means to cultivate a sense of greater aliveness born of the absence of unnecessary tension. Learning to sort out what is and what is not necessary is the how

Becoming Aware of What We Take For Granted: Notes from Switzerland

2007-04-02T05:21:00.000-07:00

It seems to be a human trait to take for granted what we see all the time. While visiting family in the Berner Oberland, in Switzerland, the landscape which surrounds me is breathtaking, and yet, I sense how completely ordinary it seems to the people around me who live here all the time...We become blinded by that which is familliar. How can we see ourselves and our world anew so that we can

The Ego's Resistance to Change

2007-02-06T08:53:00.000-08:00

By now you have probably experienced the rebound effect, a regression into old behavior that happens when we attempt to move in new directions. Don't panic. Just let it ride it's course, knowing that you are more than the compulsive response of your ego.The comfort zone that we create for ourselves is how we maintain a sense of feeling normal, adequate to the task of living. It is a function of

Motivation

2007-01-15T10:35:00.000-08:00

Finding the motivation to initiate a change in behavior is what holds most people back. There is no question that AWARENESS THROUGH MOVEMENT (ATM) can help you initiate major shifts in your life, but how do you get into the habit of doing it?There are four keys to making any substantial change in behavior. This subject has fascinated me for years precisely because I work with people actively

Toward A New Definition of Success

2007-01-04T14:14:00.000-08:00

What gets in the way of initiating those changes you want to make? Perhaps your definition of success is self-limiting.It is the time of year for new resolutions. So what needs to be different for those new goals to materialize? What makes this year different from last year? It's possible that your idea of success is getting in your way. If success, to you, is something amorphous and vague, like

What Is ATM Good For? What is Integration?

2006-08-14T09:03:00.000-07:00

What is this picture? Is it light? Is it shadow? This is a close-up of water. Given that statement, you already 'know' several things about it without my saying so. You know that it has depth. You know that it is wet. You know without question what it feels like. You can imagine it. You may even be able to conjure up the taste and the smell of it. This means you have integrated water, not just

2006-08-09T00:33:00.000-07:00

These green fields are a sight for sore eyes, relaxing, beautiful. Unless we see them as grass to be mown, as one more thing we have to take care of...Then, by our very thoughts, we create a prison from within our own minds...

Is FELDENKRAIS The Answer?

2006-08-08T22:38:00.000-07:00

"It is a mistake to believe that a thought system based on lies is weak. Nothing made by a child of God is without power. It is essential to realize this, because otherwise you will be unable to escape from the prison you have made."- A Course In MiraclesIs FELDENKRAIS the answer to everything? No. Absolutely not. It is only a means to an end, not an end in and of itself.If you love to eat as

How Long Does It Take?

2006-08-06T20:20:00.000-07:00

How open are you to change? How much change can you accept before you get overwhelmed and put on the brakes? How long it takes to experience significant change depends, in part, on your ability to absorb and adapt. People new to the FELDENKRAIS Method often want to know how long it will take to see significant change. The short answer is that you may experience adequate improvement in one session