Awareness Through Movement #119

Twisting and bending in sitting – SELF ORGANISATION

NOTE- I’ll be changing the time that these posts arrive in your email box. Due to what is turning out to be an obsession with RopeFlow my mornings are now spent on the beach with my rope.. practicing. These emails will arrive at 2pm from now on.

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“This lesson is to teach something rather than to increase flexibility and increase power. That is why you should not know anything ahead of time,

except to do a simple movement.”

Moshe Feldenkrais

“The great majority do not notice the essential thing, the most important thing.
The great majority push the chin forward when erecting the spine, they round the back and instead of erecting it, only make efforts.
The chin goes down when erecting the spine.
The chin does not go up nor does it go down.
It should be in the middle; but without a doubt, it cannot move away from the throat. At the time the chin moves away from the throat, you round the shoulders.
If the chin moves away from the throat the erecting will never be ‘erecting’.”

Feldenkrais lesson

Today was the secret study group and we did a lesson that was something like a 47 minute scan with some very gentle movements. During this experience I came to hear what Moshe has said in numerous lessons thus far.. and I felt a change…