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 if you know what you're actually going to be looking for. This week, we’ll take a look at another way to consider “posture”, and explain more about the nature of the first of the four elements of quality movement, the absence of effort. It's this absence of effort that will improve your posture … [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...]