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The aim is a body that is organized to move with minimum effort and maximum efficiency, not through muscular strength but increased consciousness of how it works.

‘Moshe’ on cultural and racial attitude development

Posted on February 5, 2012 | Leave a comment

“An immense field for inquiry is opened once the organic ties of social orientation are followed up into muscle, nerve and skeleton. Not only individual development or abnormality can be followed through the soma but ever wider cultural and racial attitude development.” Moshe Feldenkrais

‘Moshe’ on changing your habits and creating a new experience

Posted on February 4, 2012 | Leave a comment

A human being is like a computer that is capable of thousands of things. But we put in a card that only lets it do one thing. Until you change the card, that is all the computer will do: that one thing, over and over and over. That is the state in which we function and we believe that no other cards exist, that this card is the one and only card that we can function upon. I say that the difference between human beings and machines is that we make the cards. So, when one card doesn´t work, take it out and put in a new card. ‘Moshe Feldenkrais’

LISTENING is one of the great acts of LOVE

Posted on January 29, 2011 | 1 comment

As a facilitator of developing listening skills, I was pleased to hear these two quotes in the following video Dialogue at Washington High:

“Listening is one of the great acts of LOVE.”
“An enemy is someone whose story you have not heard.” Gene Knudsen-Hoffman

An exercise of listening the students take part in, after the guest speakers in this video, is similar to one I urge in my groups. To witness the connection in the students,who are from different backgrounds and to hear their surprise at the outcome, verifies to me our need to begin to develop the, ” art of listening. ”

In the tools for learning I encourage, what I call three parts of the dialogue;

the inner story we tell ourselves (that no hears but us)
expressing to another
receiving expression from another

In this clip I enjoyed hearing their interpretation for dialogue, as they refer to it. They mention it is not the following:

it is not discussion or ideas back and forth, as this isn’t listening
it is not social conversation
it is not debate with a winner or loser

What they suggest is that it is a win/win for each person and from this comes new ideas, new ways of thinking where everyone benefits. The practice is simply listening. The exercise is to listen to each other without interruption for 15 minutes and then switch and listen to the other.

This is the basic skill I focus upon in my sessions and we work towards learning how to build upon this so that we can develop it into our everyday experience of interaction. Witnessing and hearing the sharing of the students experiences confirms the value of this technique.

Empathy from cultivating awareness from the inside out

The intent of this article is in the context of how communication and movement can support the decrease of anxiety, stress & fear.

InTouch Communication: Values & Empathy integration in communication for transforming disconnection into connection
Feldenkrais Movement: calming one’s nervous system.

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