Moshe’s Wish For the Guild
While doing some research for an unrelated topic, I ran across a few choice words in a FGNA publication called, “Learning By Doing: A History.” It was from a San Francisco training graduate regarding his memory of the creation of the guild. The publication quotes the “trainer” as saying: “Interestingly, Moshe insisted on a rather [...]
Feldenkrais on Functional Integration and Physical Therapy
An interesting lecture from Moshe Feldenkrais showing not only his thinking but also the times that he “slipped” and got away from his own work. Bolded font was added to several sentences by me. San Francisco Training, August 15, 1977. “I watched what you are doing now, and I wondered what is the difference between [...]
The Satanic Verses of Frank Wildman
Please Note: This blog post is certified safe for both Guild and Non-Guild Members. I spent a considerable amount of time last month scanning documents and books and such into my computer, getting ready for my cross-border move. In the process, I came across an article that Frank Wildman published in the Physical Therapy Forum [...]
Science is an essentially anarchic enterprise…
[and this] theoretical anarchism is more humanitarian and more likely to encourage progress than its law-and-order alternatives. – Paul Feyarabend, Against Method (Fourth Edition), page 5. “The idea that science can, and should, be run according to fixed and universal rules, is both unrealistic and pernicious. It is unrealistic, for it takes too simple a [...]
Amherst Trainer: “The Old Battles Are Dead Ends”
In the previous post, “Beware Feldenkrais Trainers Bearing Grudges,” I promised to share with you the voice of a few trainers who have more balanced and inclusive ideas about the community. Below is a verbatim email as it was forwarded to me, only edited to delete several names: “Thank you [names trainers] and others who [...]
