Awareness Through Movement #71

Preparation for a Headstand - Pay Attention to Paying Attention!!

Moshe is notorious for teaching Ben Gurion to do a headstand… I’m pretty sure there are others who see the irony in Moshe upending a Head of State. Some insist he was an anarchist, one trainer was even adamant Moshe was both an anarchist AND a communist which would make him a hypocrite. It bothered me that this particular trainer kept pushing what they believed as a truth about Moshe… bothered me so much I checked in with Jeff Haller, a trainer in the US who’d worked with Moshe. Jeff assured me Moshe’s prime focus was humans, all humans despite the political views they clung to. In his Biography, it reads that he also did some work with the revisionists in Israel, no doubt curious to learn how they arrived at the conclusions they had.

Moshe Feldenkrais, politics, movement, Ben Gurion headstand - no chairs are involved in this lesson.

Even Mark Reese, a self acknowledged communist who wrote Moshe’s biography, tends to lean Moshe more toward the human than political side, in the book he clearly states that Moshe was not a communist. Moshe patented several of his engineering ideas which indicate to me he was somebody who lawfully lived within the State’s protection which ruled him out as an anarchist. What I’m sure Moshe was not, was a hypocrite. He held true to the beliefs he shares in his many books, that ALL humans have have a history buried deep in their cells, and those hiStories continue to be show themselves through movements… until people become aware of their ability to move through the past and live in the moment, to be present.