Learning is a Creative Act
Learning is a Creative Act
The reason I practice my art is to transcend the doing into creating something that elevates me to a higher level of living life. My art forms are many, each a hearts desire that drove me, something I’m drawn to engage in. For me, at first it was opera, the thrill of singing and the vibrations that rang through me. After years I transitioned to another career; culinary, and again a creative art that helped me express myself beyond any recipe. The gift of feeding others and seeing their delight in taste, smell, watching their senses awakening. After a while all of the doing and demands left me feeling depleted. My awakening to The Feldenkrais Method® directed me to my 3rd passion.
As a Feldenkrais practitioner and Assistant Trainer working to help train others in this field of somatic learning, I practice exploring and creating Awareness Through Movement (ATM)® lessons daily. I practice these movement lessons to transcend the doing so that instead of spending all my brain time in doing the lessons, I create an internal dialogue with my nervous system to create movements that awaken more possibilities of how to move with greater ease and freedom. I’m in the mix – being vs doing.
“In my lessons the student learns to listen to the instructions while he is actually carrying out an exercise and to make the necessary adjustments without stopping the movement itself. In this way he learns to act while he thinks and to think while he acts.” – Moshe Feldenkrais, ATM pg 160
There is a saying, “I hear and I forget, I see and I remember, I do and I understand.” From this learning how to explore and do a lesson, allow yourself to transcend the notes, the individual steps that build forward as if a thin red thread is connecting all of you in the movement. It’s an art form like dance. When we move better, we feel better. We feel better, everything gets nicer, we have more energy, we change our beliefs as to what is really possible and life improves. Change comes from within.
I hope you’ll come join me this week or any week to explore these lessons that enable you to move into the possible. Find how you really can do all you want to do with greater flexibility and comfort. Isn’t that the way you want life to be, getting better as we mature and grow older with grace. Come chose awareness and feel the benefits right away!
If you’ve read to this point, I hope I have earned the privilege of your time and attention.
Warmest,
Peggi
