Friday, 29 January 2016
Friday, 22 January 2016
Rereading the Feldenkrais Standards of Practice, I rediscovered this:
Introduction
Introduction
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The Feldenkrais Method assumes that human beings have
transformational potential and that all people, regardless of their age
or condition, have the ability to learn.
- Moshe Feldenkrais wrote in Higher Judo, “In a perfectly matured body which has grown without great emotional disturbances, movements tend gradually to conform to the mechanical requirements of the surrounding world. The nervous system has evolved under the influence of these laws and is fitted to them. However, in our society we do, by the promise of great reward or intense punishment, so distort the even development of the system, that many acts become excluded or restricted. The result is that we have to provide special conditions for furthering adult maturation of many arrested functions. The majority of people have to be taught not only the special movements of our repertoire, but also to reform patterns of motions and attitudes that should never have been excluded or neglected.”
Tuesday, 19 January 2016
"Everybody worships. The only choice we get is what to worship."
"The capital- T Truth is about life BEFORE death.
It is about the real value of a real education, which has almost nothing to do with knowledge, and everything to do with simple awareness; awareness of what is so real and essential, so hidden in plain sight all around us, all the time, that we have to keep reminding ourselves over and over . . ."
David Foster Wallace 2005
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