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 [...]
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 [...]
Feldenkrais on Gurdjieff on Waking Sleep
Thanks to a comment by Deborah Elizabeth Lotus on my post yesterday, Feldenkrais on Waking Sleep Walking, I was provoked to see if I could find references of Moshe speaking to similar ideas from Gurdjieff. Though I do not yet have the full corpus of Moshe’s work digitized and on my computer, I was able [...]
Feldenkrais on “Waking Sleep Walking”
In the Awareness Through Movement book, which Moshe Feldenkrais wrote to demonstrate his ideas to the public, he distinguished among three states of human functioning: waking, sleeping and awareness: “Two states of existence are commonly distinguished: waking and sleeping. We shall define a third state: awareness. In this state the individual knows exactly what he [...]
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Ryan Nagy
At his "Office" in Mexico
Moshe Feldenkrais
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