Awareness Through Movement #414

On one leg – BALANCE

I think I’ve already shared with you that Moshe Feldenkrais died halfway through the first training for practitioners and there were no manuals… yes?

Well, the practitioners to be sifted through is material, and this Alexander Yanai series to pull together what they call manuals for the training. The very first training thereafter was simply a matter of people working their way through the manuals to make sense of the movements… as we are doing now.

SOME of the material was half recorded, as in the tapes ran out half way through and only the first half was saved, and in other examples the recording started half way through the lesson, which is the case with this particular lesson.

The first twenty minutes is missing, so I’ve thought of a way to bridge that gap for tonight, and I invite you to think for what ever. other way Moshe would have started it… because that’s what we’re all doing in the Feldenkrais world, making up for the gaps. Wondering what was going on in the mind of the person who brought this way to the hundreds of people who gathered around to learn from him, and make that work their own.

This series is a foundational learning ground for practitioners once they/we leave the training, lessons are plucked from it and very often repeated over and over again to people new to the experience. Lessons that are halfway done (like this one) are left behind in the too hard basket because, there is no definite answer to…

what were the first directions???

It does involve hopping, and my thinking is connecting dots from other lessons where he has us explore movements in the horizontal position, then in the vertical to prove… if it can be done one way, then it must be possible to do the other way and it is our job to find out what stops us if we meet “impossible”.

With that as an introduction, I invite you to continue your exploration of the Self, to feel and sense your way in to learning more about the way YOU move through space and tweak the tiny fractions of a mm somewhere in the middle to have the greatest influence on “the end” - where-ever that may be!!

Maybe today’s lesson is preparing us for some feel good activities being spread around the world. How sad for those incapable of hopscotching it on to the train.

Enjoy: