The Process of Learning
The Process of Learning
While you may have been conditioned by many influences, begin to recognize your innate intelligence to awaken and listen. Find the ability to move toward a better quality of ease and comfort. With the Feldenkrais Method we learn how to find movements that are pleasing, and that guides you instead of always striving to push into resistance to overcome discomfort.
Discomfort can come from stressing to achieve life’s goals. It’s not that having goals isn’t a good thing, but rather, does the goal silence our ability to become more effective and efficient? Do you tune out to listening, to recognizing a quality of ease in your movement patterns? Or, are you already in a pattern of holding muscles to protect and guard? We are intelligent beings and yet, how often have you delegated your awareness to someone else to reestablish balance, instead of listening within?
In a waking state there are four components you can begin to pay attention to; sense, feel, thinking and movement. The ability to turn your attention inward helps develop your awareness to internal experiences that are sensations, feelings, thoughts and movements. Each of these components serves as a basis by which we can learn about improving what we do, and more importantly – how.
I was part of the training team this weekend for the Ann Arbor I Feldenkrais Training Program and each time I tap into this process, renewing my ability to awaken to the subtle ways I pay attention, I learn how to improve everything I do. Even benign movements of our daily activities, I become so much more aware as to how I am doing instead of going into overdrive.
You have four opportunities this week to join me in this process and even if you can only come once or twice, you will receive the audio file(s) to explore on your own. Sense, feel, think about how you can begin to move with even greater comfort. It’s not only possible, it’s easier than you might think. Afternoon classes are a great way to start as I build slowly with successive approximations in finding fluid, efficient movements. You will begin to develop a way to experience more enjoyment in the process.
“It’s a funny thing… It’s all the time improvisation but it has a method in it, therefore it’s jazz. It’s real learning, It’s a lived thing.” – Moshe Feldenkrais, 1972
I hope to share this week’s lessons with you. If for whatever reason you are not able to attend but would like to receive the audios, just reach out. The class lessons you can attend live on Zoom at time-of for helpful guidance or explore on your own, it’s only $15 to drop in. Audio files are available if you are part of a monthly membership whether you can attend live or not, you receive the audio lessons to download. Explore whenever the desire to sense and feel an improvement speaks to you.
Warmest,
Peggi
