Awareness Through Movement #375

Passing the feet in the arm ring – Megan Hopley

according to Grok we’ll be growing extra legs tonight!

Too funny, I started editing this lesson thinking, I remember this and I’m so happy I won’t be doing this one… and then I get a call from Megan “can I change my reading to Monday?”

And now I sit with a smile on my face thinking, OK, so not a big dinner tonight and I read through Moshe’s words again:

”One of the difficult things for people to do is to learn how to learn.
They think that they either know how to do it or that they do not know how.
I do not know how to do it and with that, it is over with.
This attitude disturbs their learning.

In learning, there are things that you must learn twenty years until you know how to do it.
Most people see somebody who knows how to play the piano and thinks that if they do not succeed the first time,
it is not worth it.

The same thing with the feet... the same thing with mathematics... the same thing in dance... the same thing in everything.

I see people who look at me with miserable eyes that say,
"I do not know how to do it."

It is as if they are saying,
"I am not worth anything."

No one is worth anything until he knows how to do it,
and there are those who always know how "to do."
They are the ones who pay attention,
by listening rather than looking with eyes saying,
"Oy! I do not know how. I do not know how."
Do it slowly, knowing "how to do" is not like beauty.
Somebody is born beautiful or not... does not do anything that helps him.

To know how to do is something you learn.

And, maybe, beauty is something you learn.
Maybe one of you here saw and heard Edith Piaff.
She was an old Jewish woman with two fat legs with veins - a mercy to see.
When she would get onstage, people would look and say,
"Oy! Have mercy!"
Then, five minutes after she began to sing, they would begin to think,
"This is an extraordinary woman.
What a beautiful face!
What a wonderful woman."
She had more men courting her than all the other girls.”

and I am really happy I got the call.. I get to put this lesson in to practice at a completely different level - THANK YOU MEGAN :)