We're up to Part 3 of our 5 Part Series on what makes for Quality Movement, a series about Feldenkrais for pain relief, and more. You can find Part 1 here: Want Quality Movement? Learn the Feldenkrais® Less is More Rule And Part 2 here: How to Improve Your Posture Effortlessly the Feldenkrais® Way In those first two posts we looked at the myths related to good posture, the "Less is More Rule", and the first of the four elements of quality movement: The Absence of … [Read more...]
How to Improve Your Posture Effortlessly the Feldenkrais® Way
In last week's post, I introduced this series on Quality Movement. In it, I suggest that good posture isn’t necessarily all its cracked up to be. And yet, you can improve your posture effortlessly the Feldenkrais® way. In this article, I'll show you what you're actually going to be looking for to make this happen. Lets take a look at another way to consider “posture”. I'll also explain more about the nature of the first of the four elements of quality movement, the absence of effort. … [Read more...]
Want Quality Movement? Learn the Feldenkrais® Less is More Rule
Moshe Feldenkrais was ahead of his time in understanding the need to do less to learn to have quality movement. I call this the "Feldenkrais Less is More Rule". Before I get into that, let's talk posture for a second. One of the biggest challenges people I work with must overcome is their beliefs about good posture. Suffering pain, they are often doing everything they can to have “good posture”. What they often don't realize is that all that effort they're putting into having good … [Read more...]
The Feldenkrais Path to Power & Grace:
Effortless Effort The Feldenkrais Way This is a an edited reprint of a previous post about one of Feldenkrais' four elements of quality movement: the absence of effort. Feldenkrais spent a great deal of time making it clear that... “….posture relates to action, and not to the maintenance of any given position. Acture would perhaps be a better word for it.”* He pointed out that the image of ideal posture shown in medical textbooks or on those medical charts with a plumb line … [Read more...]
Finding Your Genius Potential
Do you think you're genius material? If you're like most people I know (yours truly included), although you'd like to be a genius at something, you probably don't think of yourself as genius material. Why is that? What do you think makes a genius a genius? You'd be surprised what a little time and effort will do Moshe Feldenkrais had this to say about genius: I believe that there is no essential difference between what we call a genius and everybody else except that the so-called … [Read more...]
Jet Fuel for Awareness Through Movement® Lessons: Curiosity
In the last post, Learning Your Way to Wellness: It's Not What You Think, I wrote about the difference between a couple of types of learning (intellectual vs. Immersion/experiential). I shared how my transition from pain to wellness required deep immersion learning about myself as a mover. The distinction between studying a movement and studying myself in movement is HUGE. You see, I wasn’t steeping myself in the development of a skill, like a golf swing, a yoga pose, a t’ai chi set, … [Read more...]