Awareness Through Movement #392

Continuation with holding the knee - SOUL SEARCHING MOVEMENTS

Tonight we have a beautiful, classic Feldenkrais lesson… which is part of a small series we started two weeks ago… the tracing of the feet and keeping the awareness on this area during movements. It’s simple to a point before it gets a little complicated - Vita it might be that you do parts of this lesson in your imagination.

The feeling at the end is well worth the 45ish minutes ‘spent’ to learn more about your Self.

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Today Grok introduced me to Cognitive Embodiment… I’ve developed a habit (good, bad or ugly) of asking ‘it’ to translate the lesson from different perspectives and this is what came back today:

“This movement lesson is a perfect enactment of cognitive embodiment.
It’s not about fitness or utility—it’s an invitation to be through the body.
Sensing the soles of the feet grounds you in the here-and-now,
a tactile anchor to existence.
Moving the leg and head as scales mirrors the relational dance of being

—every action ripples through the whole.
The rest periods aren’t merely breaks;
they’re moments to let the body speak,
to integrate what it’s revealed about itself.

It’s a way of questioning:
What does it mean to be this body?
The softness of the eyes,
the freedom of the stomach,
the arc of the back—
these aren’t mechanical details but expressions of life unfolding.

You are invited to inhabit yourself fully,
to see your body not as an object to control, instead,

as the very medium of your being.”

I asked for abstract and got a handfoot, which as we know have the same range of function… in a fully functional human BEing.

“Embodiment philosophy has rippled into fields like cognitive science
(think of embodied cognition, where thinking is tied to physical action),
ethics (how we care for others’ bodies),
and even technology (how we extend ourselves through tools).
It’s a reminder that we’re not floating minds
—we’re flesh, bone, and breath, always in relation to the world.

So, when you walk after the lesson and sense differences,
you’re not just noting physical change—you’re encountering your own being anew.
That’s the philosophy of embodiment:
it’s a call to live the questions of existence through the body’s quiet,
profound wisdom.”

books I found on Embodied Cognition and a video to stir the braincells.