to your Feldenkrais® Plus session:
◊ The Tomatis Method® teaches us how to hear more efficiently, how to communicate more effectively, how to distinguish and interpret sounds more accurately, and how to orient ourselves in space and within ourselves more comfortably. The Feldenkrais Method® teaches us how to become more efficient when moving about in the world. The two Methods complement each other beautifully.
◊ Ruthy Alon was one of Moshe’s first students and one of the graduates of his first teacher training. Since Moshe’s death she has built upon his legacy. Ruthy has found that the Feldenkrais Method® can be greatly enhanced by incorporating broader, more commonplace movements. Studying with Ruthy has been particularly valuable. I’m very fortunate to have been able to study with her and to be able to incorporate her work into my sessions.
◊ It’s important to become increasingly aware of your own range of motion. As you learn more about yourself, you will find that your range of motion expands in ways you can’t always anticipate. It can be difficult to discover all the ramifications of the changes. I can help you to keep track of these changes so you can take advantage of them.
◊ Communication includes our body language, facial expressions, eye contact, our use of touch, the tone of our voice, the choice of vocabulary we use, and much more.
◊ Clients and I do a significant part of our communication nonverbally. The challenges and freedom a client is living are expressed and prioritized within their whole self. Similarly, I use my whole self to listen to the information offered by my clients.
◊ Non-Local communication is also a very important part of my Feldenkrais work. Scientists in the 21st century are also including space/time and mind/body relationships to explain how we are able to share information without using words.
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◊ Sometimes we develop muscular relationships which have been intensifying for so long that it is useful for me to intervene strongly. One way to accomplish this is through deep tissue work and other similar therapies. I find this kind of work comes in handy sometimes during a session.
◊ Meditation is one of many ways to explore and learn about ourselves. It explores our own mind/body/universe dynamic just as any other activity does. Feldenkrais Plus can help you learn, by way of your movement and your awareness, how your whole life is as much your meditation as is your time spent sitting quietly.
◊ Mindfulness is about relationship as well, your relationship with yourself, our relationship during our sessions, and your relationships at home and throughout your life.
◊ Existence is a universal field of limitless possibilities. Consciousness exists within that field. As individuals of consciousness, each of us exists within a field of limitless possibilities.
● Does this mind-blowing understanding of our existence have meaning for our daily lives? Or do we live in a Quantum/Electro-Magnetic/String/etc. Universe without having the capacity to experience its limitless possibilities? We can learn to pay attention to our life with that question in mind.
● We can explore the perspective we have and learn if there is more to the concept of perspective than what we understand so far.
◊ We can find that Quantum/Electro-Magnetic/String/etc. experiences have always been part of our lives and we didn’t realize it.
◊ We can learn to see how the “Theories of Everything Including Quantum Consciousness and Other Related Theories” continue to point toward the importance of the backdrop which supports our lives.
◊ Physicists and other scientists have passionate disagreements about the nature of the universe, the nature of life, the components of consciousness. What they tend to disagree about is whether or not a specific conclusion about these things is the correct conclusion. In the 21st century they don’t disagree that the reality of our existence is far more unexpected and fantastic than the discoveries by some few Europeans in the 15th century who believed their ships would not fall off the edge of the world.
Columbus did not find India, as he thought he would. He found worlds even more remarkable which no one had imagined. It is probable that today’s scientists will be equally misguided about the details of the implications suggested by quantum physics, holographic and electro-magnetic consciousness, string theory, and the application of these concepts to biology and other disciplines. I do not doubt, however, that there will be discoveries of a magnitude of unexpectedness and fantasticity which will dwarf the changes brought to the world by the acceptance of the spherical nature of the planet. We will indeed step into a new world when we find the path which enables us to accept the ubiquity and unity of existence.