Awareness Through Movement #505

continuation - crawling

Have some space to crawl in this lesson, we explore combinations of movement with precision, timing and intrigue… to connect again with our DNA…
and those patterns inherent for learning.

“From where does the precision of these movements that we did come from?
The precision is not as if a bird flew into my head,

but from nature because the environment, the earth, the world are built like this.

Our bodies evolved in this world so if it does not know to do like this,
it is an idiotic body.
Every child who is born knows how to do this.
Afterward, they make his head stupid and he forgets.
If now you try to look at a baby at home, you will see that when he crawls
– when he lies on the back – that he does these movements without thinking a moment.

The problem is that older people need their imagination and the precision of their movement to be better than a baby’s.
Also, you are able to do it in your awareness and not just like a machine.

This is the difference, or advantage, between man over beasts because we are able to distinguish and to know what we are doing.

Also, we are able to do the opposite and also something else.

Animals are not able to do the opposite.
You will never see an animal lying on its back,
doing movements of running or practicing jumping,
or something...

even the smartest of them.”

“Nature prepares the baby for a life of defense and attack,
for everything that is necessary so it would be able to survive
without the police defending him,
or the army defending him,
because it is not always possible to depend on those brave people who are defending him. Each person needs to know how to defend himself.
The world is built like this.
When you lie on the back,

talking to someone...
if someone wants to attack,
to choke, to touch the sex organs,
then your torso bends….

an animal is organized in an instinctive manner.
He learns it when he crawls.
When his parents disturb him from crawling,
he grows and afterward is an intellectual,
one who just knows to talk nonsense and disturb himself and others.”

Moshe Feldenkrais.