Psychology
“What do we do with what has made us what we are? “ Postures and Emotions: The Unfinished Events Our physical postures are the visible results of our unfinished or incomplete movements. They are created when, for emotional or physical reasons, the velocity of the movement becomes zero, or the movement is interrupted, or the…
The forthcoming Women’s Day gives me another opportunity to talk about raising awareness of our enculturation. Celebrations and ceremonies, in all societies and cultures, often have an enlightened meaning. But in many cases they merely perpetuate a passive enculturation without offering any practice of enlightened discernment or intellectual emancipation.I’m not particularly fond of celebrations, I…
Apart from his books, we have very few audio, and even less video material about Moshe Feldenkrais which can help us to try and continue to understand who he was and what he was all about. Nevertheless, a number of recordings of the lessons he taught in Israel, in Tel Aviv, exist on tape, some…
I have received a lot of reactions to my last post on the subject of boycott on watching 2022 World Cup, some asking me to explain this choice. So I decided to shed some light on my choice here. Qatar I have to admit that I didn’t know much about this country before it was…
I was climbing mountain this morning together with thinking of that question asked by a student after our yesterday Awareness Through Movement lesson. Her question was like this: 为什么呼吸要在运行中，交叉？意义何在？ Which I understand in this way: Why do we coordinate those movements with our breath? Why do we cross in the middle, designing a “8”? What’s…
Before reading what is here below, close your eyes and imagine for a moment meeting this baby in person. What would be your first body reaction? I don’t know any statistics on this subject, however, based on my personal experience and what I observe in my daily life, I believe I can safely say that…
Do you remember how you felt during that conversation when the other person kept interrupting you, seeming not to pay attention to what you were saying? Frustrated? Disappointed? Angry? Maybe all of the above… Listening Listening to the other without interrupting.Listening without waiting for our turn to speak.Listening not without judging, but listening while being…
You have probably heard the sentence: “From inside out”, referring to the ability our inner world has to express towards the outside, to become the expression of our potential. Both used in some spiritual practices and psychology schools. With Inside Moves and Feldenkrais Method, we explore this fundamental pattern of our body being organized for…
