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 [...]
Beware Trainers Bearing Grudges
“Sed quis Custodiet ipsos Custodes?” – Juvenal A small investigation of something Moshe Feldenkrais attempted to teach….and what a few of his students actually learned. Moshe Feldenkrais Lecture and Demonstration Thursday, June, 23 1977, From the San Francisco Training Transcripts. Moshe speaking during a Functional Integration demonstration: “I used to take it differently. This [...]
Roots of the Feldenkrais Trainer Monopoly
“All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.” Animal Farm by George Orwell. From the SRC 2009 Report: “Since 1992, we [the International Feldenkrais Federation] have a “bottom-up”, democratically organized professional umbrella association in the IFF. Parallel to it, we have an older TAB [Training and Accreditation Board] structure with roots [...]
IFF Committee Wants Change. The Holy Ones Say “NO.”
(As Per the Script) Products that are still evolving, delivered to a market that is still emerging, using technology that is changing on a daily basis – Kent Foster, GTE Kent Foster is a business person talking about the ever changing economy of ideas that we live in. Unfortunately, the reality of that world has [...]
Denis Leri Wants a Separate Feldenkrais Trainer’s Guild
I have heard this idea floated many times over the years – some trainers threatening to leave the guild over some issue that upsets them. Actually, I have seen some of the emails in which trainers have threatened to leave. They are actually a bit funny as the “issues” – if you can call them [...]
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Ryan Nagy
At his "Office" in Mexico
Moshe Feldenkrais
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