Bewußtheit durch Bewegung. Der aufrechte Gang

And he used to start his classes, these were advanced level classes, and so there was always some form of relaxation kind of thing that was given before class, and people would be quiet for a few moments so that we could be in a state of attention when class started.

And, and he came back and showed, had us do about 10 minutes of, of an awareness through movement, uh, little exercise.

And there was more implicit intelligence in those 10 minutes than five years of killing myself on the basketball court.

Really?

And, and that professor at, at that workshop had gotten Moshé's book, uh, from, called, uh, called, uh, what ...

Now this is really interesting this morning.

Uh, Awareness Through Movement.

Mm-hmm.

So, I'll give you a story about myself.

When I first started the Feldenkrais Method, when I first started going to a practitioner and doing awareness through movement and having private functional integration sessions, I had had a really, really bad issue with my right hip.

It started when I was 18.

I remember it distinctly because it woke me up with like, I felt like someone was stabbing me in the right hip with a knife.

And it was such a valuable lesson.

So after I finished my conversation with her, I thought, wow, isn't that amazing? Isn't it amazing how something that was gone for so long came roaring back when I was in a situation that I perceived to be difficult? In other words, I had a lot of tension, emotional tension, which of course is physical tension as well.

And luckily though, because of the Feldenkrais work I had done, I had tools now to mitigate the problem and did awareness through movement, pain went away, and I'm happy to say decades later, it's still gone.

But it taught me a super, super valuable lesson.