Feldenkrais Podcast #2 with Madelyn Kent
We talk about talked about:
quieting noise/ anxiety
moving through creative blocks
complex awareness
neuroplastic healing
constraints
flow
Possibility in Paradox
In the Feldenkrais Method, paradox is a generative tool for learning, the proverbial door that opens when another shuts. Perhaps inspired by his Hasidic childhood, with its culture of questioning rather than answering, Feldenkrais saw paradox as a way to give the nervous system the opportunity to improvise new habits by noticing and questioning old ones.
Transcript of Feldenkrais Podcast #1
This context begins to bring us to appreciate the brilliance of Moshe’s work. When one’s attentional pathway is continually being fostered through the limbic system—in the continual maintenance of the sense of safety and the sense of self, one is not going to give up behaviors unless there’s something better in place.
Feldenkrais Perspective on Learning to Learn
Bodywork vs Body un-work
If you live in Massachusetts, please take a few minutes out of your day to call/email your rep to ask that they oppose or amend SB 2621 "An Act to regulate bodywork therapy" (formerly 2599), which would impact virtually all holistic modalities (their practitioners and their recipients) in Massachusetts.
drip, drop, drip
"There is no waste in creative process." -Amy Walsh
The little things, big things, stolen moments, mess, serendipity, inspiration, education, devotion, mistakes, misspellings, struggle, dust, dream---all of it.
When you stay in the process, with the practice, in whatever imaginable and unimaginable ways, all the little drops add up.
Movement as Metaphor
If you are a human being, you have a deep natural wellspring of creativity that is your greatest resource for vitality.
The Feldenkrais Method is most fundamentally about rediscovering your inherent creativity and learning to apply and embody it in each moment. Your creativity is your most potent tool for diminishing your aches and pains!
How the Nervous System Senses Differences
The Wisdom of Doing Less
"Do a little less than your utmost while learning... continuing to do a little less than your utmost, you go on improving.... The wisdom of doing a little less than one really can pushes the record of achievement further and further as you come nearer to it, similar to the horizon that recedes on approaching it."
This is Chapter 20 from Feldenkrais Illustrated: The Art of Learning, excerpts from the writings of Moshe Feldenkrais, edited and illustrated by Tiffany Sankary.
Create Space
"We are beginning to place enormous emphasis on creativity, but there is a tendency to think that being creative is limited to “producing” something. I would suggest to you that the basic creativity of the human being consists in his working toward his own fullest development, the realizing of his own potentials, the allowing himself to grow. What we create first is ourselves and it is out of ourselves that the producing comes.” - Mary Whitehouse