We had an interesting discussion after class on Tuesday. In fact, the topic has come up big and bold a couple of times in the last couple of weeks

The long and the short of it was that it seemed to be a surprise for some to hear that the Feldenkrais Method® can be helpful with our emotional wellbeing too.

Paradox?

• Yes, the Feldenkrais Method is all about movement.
• No! The Feldenkrais Method is not just about movement!

I can feel pretty comfortable making both these statements. It all depends on the context and meaning because here is the thing...

As Moshe Feldenkrais said:

So one could say that the Feldenkrais Method is all about movement.

But then, one has to appreciate that movement and emotion and thought and perceptions and sensations are all interwoven as one unified whole.

Now, because many people divide themselves, and think their physical self as separate from their thinking and emotional self, they think movement is unrelated to emotion.

If that is how one thinks of movement, then no, the Feldenkrais Method is not just about movement in that sense. It's about how you organize your self moment to moment-- your moving-thinking-sensing-emotional self.

When you know how to make movement reversible and flexible, you learn how to make your thinking and your emotional life more flexible too. They are of one unfolding process, kind of like the way water and land make a river.

A river is ever changing dynamics of water and land. They each are shaping the movement of the other. The flowing water alters the land, and the changing shape of the land over which the water flows changes the flowing dynamics of the water.

All aspects of our self affect and are affected by every other aspect.

May your day flow more as you'd intend.

Cheers,

Gisele