Awareness Through Movement Lesson #43
Lifting the pelvis on standing feet - balance
“When your back is in order, your legs and pelvis lift until your hips become horizontal. It should happen by itself, without any effort. You are ruining your back if you force your back and legs to make the pelvis horizontal. Your back needs to reorganize and improve slowly. When the back is well organized; when your back is in order, the pubic bone is at the height of your knees. This lesson is designed to help your body learn how do this rather than force it.”
Moshe Feldenkrais
“It should happen by itself, without any effort”… I think this is what Substack’s AI has yet to learn about Feldenkrais. This is the direction Artificial Intelligence is supposed to take us, yet so far like much of technology we’re being forced to use they seem so… artificial.
I often wonder, is this because the will of another is forced upon us? I have a lot more to say about the subject over the course of these posts.. first, a welcome distraction from what I was going to write.
OH MY Goodness, while I was typing this post I had a call from a friend of many, many, many years sharing her experience of these lessons.
The very first response she sent a few weeks ago has to be censored:
“That’s just f**king amazing
Thank you for sharing this with me.
I just did the session.
Just what i needed .
I feel I changed the way I walk.
I have to be somewhere, more later
Your voice is absolute divine”
Bussi 💋 Bussi 💋
The “more later” is what she shared with me tonight:
“OH Dale… I’m 85 years old and I’m just learning this now, that I know nothing about awareness of my body??? How can this be? I’m on a mission to leave the planet healthy, and OhMeinGott (she has a German background, now you might like to think of the dialect these words were spoken)…. now I find out I’m back to the beginning, AGAIN???”
She continued:
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