How to Become a Movement Detective

How to Become a Movement Detective

Many of us enjoy detective stories.  What comes to mind for me is stories of the Thin Man, Sherlock Holmes and even James Bond, who were sleuths at finding pieces of puzzles and solutions to resolve crimes. Feldenkrais practitioners are also detectives, who help support you in finding more options and solutions to your physical problems that constrain and restrict.

Here’s something fascinating to know: when a concern is physical, and we can help support and improve the physical sensations, everything improves in your mental and emotional states, as one affects the other, and everything improves exponentially.

Practitioners begin by honing their sensory skills to observe with keen eyes and listen without judgment, supporting and helping guide students to notice what at first seems elusive to them.  Curiosity begins to awaken the nervous system to find better solutions, one little bit at a time.

Most of these problems took a lifetime to develop until they crossed a tipping point. Through nonjudgmental observation, we can begin to detect where a disconnect exists and movement is halted, unable to travel unconstrained through your body. Where movement is impeded, you begin to feel the effects of heat, friction and irritation.  Now you need help to resolve discomfort and dysfunction.   Feldenkrais will awaken your intelligent nervous system, and also help you become your own detective.  All you need is to awaken your curiosity and slow the process of how you move and do things so you can compare and begin to awaken to these unconscious, habitual patterns.  We’ll help you create more efficient and organic habits.

If you begin to take Awareness Through Movement (ATM)®  lessons as well as Functional Integration (FI)® sessions, these are constructed also creating puzzles for the student to begin to find their own solutions.  We support and guide you to begin to awaken to sense and feel yourself to find where you can move with ease instead of continually pushing into resistance.  These concerns we all experience in life are a result of habits and movement patterns that lie outside our awareness, and these habitual patterns influence and limit our abilities to move with greater ease and freedom.

“The lessons are designed to improve ability, that is, to expand the boundaries of the possible, to turn the impossible into the possible, the difficult into the easy, and the easy into the pleasant. For only those activities that are easy and pleasant will become part of a person’s habitual life and will serve them at all times.” Dr. Moshe Feldenkrais

I would like to remind you I will take a hiatus from my weekly newsletters and classes for the month of August as I travel to Ann Arbor for the month to work in the Feldenkrais training program.    It’s a passion of mine because teaching gives me so much benefit and greater freedom and ease no matter my age or issues, I have strategies and become my own detective to support myself moving forward.

The most important thing is to take an action, once you decide, you are in process.  It’s a progression of doing and then resting to enable what you have been learning in your body, connecting throughout your entire nervous system to integrate and enhance the quality of your life for the better.  You are in the driver seat so while I am away, continue to play with all the lessons I have shared with you, those of you that receive FI, settle in, dream, remember and move with intention to feel ease, comfort, and freedom instead of pushing into resistance.

The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity. The fears are paper tigers. You can do anything you decide to do. You can act to change and control your life, and the procedure, the process is its own reward. – Amelia Earhart

For those of you who work with me or would like to begin to work together, please know I am here for you even when working on the road, so please feel free to reach out.  I am quick to respond.

I hope I’ve earned the privilege of your time and attention, and look forward to seeing you in September.

Warmest,

Peggi