Awareness Through Movement #256

Lines crossing and balancing the body - INTERNAL MAPPING

If you’re not already aware, Moshe was a surveyor when he arrived in Palestine after his long pied piper trek through Europe, he was part of the team that mapped out the new territory known to many as Israel. Me, thinking for how to be as least controversial as possible given how hot a topic this is right now.

He was measuring distances between places to allocate space for apartments, all of the buildings needed to weave a society together, that was part of his job - whilst still doing his Feldenkrais lessons on Alexander Yanai (street?). I sense/suspect/have a strong intuition that this mapping was quite easy for him considering I think this is how he sensed in to his own body.

Nowadays with computers we have advanced our mapping abilities to design 3Ddigital bodies and learn how the human anatomy moves through space - however, my experience has been that these developers learn from books rather than their own ability to move and that reduces their ability to truly map out human movement. The way I see it, if they can’t feel or sense in to their selves, all they can do is follow other peoples’ maps of the human body and aim higher from models that are limited.

TIP: these video’s can be long and boring, you can always speed up the video’s to ‘skip’ through the content.

Tonight’s lesson introduces us to some internal mapping so that we get a more accurate sense of the distances between our internal selves… for me it is a bit like we get to be the developers and shape our selves from inside. We’ve spoken before about the subjective/objective ‘training’ that Feldenkrais offers, this lesson is a beautiful step into developing that skill… which I’m finding really assists me be aware of my internal and external worlds simultaneously.