Awareness Through Movement #96

Sinking the spine between the shoulder blades - The Sphinx - warning, you could want to fly after this lesson!

Vita, a beautiful lesson for your imagination - to open the 'chest'.

human sphinx, sseriously SubStack?? Putting the ARTIFICIAL in “Intelligence”

“We will see, as always, if something can be better. Then, there isn't any limit to the extent to which it can improve. It is only static things that are permanent. With a quality like intelligence, or where intelligence is involved, there isn't any limit. The person can do it so it improves. Then, literally throughout life, he or she will never find "a best way," that cannot be improved upon. Then, when he or she stops improving, it is a sign that it has become a routine and he no longer sees or is aware of what he is doing. He is acting mechanically and that is why it is not improving; otherwise, there isn't any limit to development As a person does better, the ability to feel becomes greater and the clarity, depth, and breadth of thought is increased. The complexity is also increased, so that he or she can always do better, much better. Now, we will see how this can be done better. We will do another two or three steps where the difference will be greater than it has been up to now. You will see, that if you go home and think about it, you will find another ten steps by yourself.”
Moshe Feldenkrais

I remember doing this lesson with Larry Goldfarb at the Box Hill Town Hall many many years ago and feeling like a swan afterwards!

So much tension can be stored between the shoulder ‘blades’ (although they’re really not sharp, they’re soft and rounded… and if you feel in the armpit, there’s a knobbly bit which is part of your ‘blades’). I’ve worked with somebody who suffered from…