” Movement is life. Life is a process. Improve the quality of the process and you improve the quality of life itself”, Moshe Feldenkrais.
This slow movement practice was first written about in 1949 by Feldenkrais, who “was a cartographer, engineer and science officer with the British Admiralty”, The Globe and Mail, Amy Verner, writes (L4 Thursday, June 10,2010). Rather than experience surgery for a soccer injury he developed this rehabilitation technique, “using his own self awareness”. Very avant-guarde for his time. It was not until the 1960s that he began teaching others his techniques.
It is interesting that while yoga, for example, has received such public acclaim in the past several decades, Feldenkrais still evokes questions from people who have no idea what it is nor what is entailed with the movements. It seems many don’t even know how to pronounce the name. Lying on the floor, gentle movements are employed that are slow, and seem sometimes to be excruciating so, as one becomes in tune with the process of moving.
