cheers!!

In retrospect, what I wrote is not entirely accurate. My main concern is to be a destabilizing agent. The current FGNA-derived systems is heavily weighted towards stability and control. And in my view, it serves as a major choke point stopping the growth – not of the work – but of individual’s developing themselves to do the work. More accurately, doing their own work. None of those levels are identical though they are often confused by those who think they are doing THE WORK.

We get into AY #’, which I think are great for our own practice and more devouted students, but the introductions of this work needs to be subtle and less fancy – afterall, who are you trying to impressed with crazy AY movement sequences – people at first just need to realize they CAN and DO have the ability to pay attention to themselves and change things. They need to understand the basics of human learning.

Ryan writes “In fact, no one (let’s be honest) really has a clue as to the best way for this work to develop, grown and touch the masses.”.

I would agree, (today at least), for a vast majority of what I see that goes on in our community (I generalize). People are stuck in the content of the work and forget the essence of what the work is for.

I would like to suggest to any practitioner reading this that making your teaching more state-dependent or phase appropriate is so critical to lock in a future students interest – and get more on board with this type of living and being.

Take this example from yesterday:
I just did a little demo to my Somatic Experiencing classmates (I am studying it) and one lady said, “well, I had this awful experience the only time I had a Feldenkrais session, she couldn’t adapt to where I was at and keep wanting me to drop my leg on the floor (she must have been supine with knees bent and feet standing),even though I was not digging it.”.
And from this, she never sought it out. Unhappy customer. Another, participant is an Anat Baniel Student, she asked “what lesson are you going to teach?”
I said “no specific number, I am going to teach something that will resonate with everyone, that will help them today while they are in class, and something that will make them start to think about their senses and how this might help their future clients (they are all therapists)”.

food for thought – Irene.