Awareness Through Movement #403

Getting up in a turn - SEQUENCE

I think I’ve shared with you about Madeleine Edgar (OMG, note to self, I forgot to call her), a Feldenkrais practitioner now living in a retirement village in Queensland.. and her being the envy of her peers.

Why? Because of the way she moves from the floor up to standing with such grace and ease at the age of 80 (something). It’s not because she’s still lifting weights, swimming and tap dancing in her spare time… it’s mostly because she can come up to standing on her own two feet without any aids.

So many people lose this ability and many Feldenkrais practitioners with a physiotherapy background (Madeleine and MANY others in Australia) say it’s the beginning of a downward spiral.

Moshe makes such a movement fun with this lesson, there are a LOT of directions which eventually disappear in to the background once the pattern is established.

It might be the appropriate moment to share something that was brought to my attention a few weeks ago.. the word

*conscience*

It has an interesting root, or derivation.

“con” means with,
and “science” means knowing - in the fullest sense of the meaning.

”Con”
”science”
literally means “with knowing”.

In essence,
one’s conscience is the deepest well of knowing
that one can draw upon as a spiritual BEing.

Imagine… being able to stand for ones self…
for the entire life on this planet.
That’s what this lesson makes available if you’d like to come play :)