Just got back from Sarasota. Feldenkrais seminar. The whole premise, in my eyes, of the Feldenkrais "method" is our bodies are held together by bones. The way they hinge in a flowing movement determines our ease of movement. Sounds simple it was life changing for me. Also self-imaging changing! We were asked us to draw a picture of ourselves in the beginning how we see ourselves and then at the end of the workshop. Just take a minute or two and color it in.
The first drawing was normal. Me with a big smile with my arms outstretched wearing a tank top and karate pants. I had a normal head, normal length arms, my hairstyle looked like me and I used a pencil to, what turned out to be a cartoon of me. My lips were red with a big smile and just for the heck of it, I painted all ten toe-nails. I took up the whole page and used yellow rays of light jutting out all around me. Normal right?
Well at the end of the workshop, we were instructed to draw again and see if our images of ourselves had changed. I drew me as a worm, yes you read right a WORM...hahaha...with a full skeleton inside of me(minus my arms, they just wouldn't fit....hahaha and my mouth had a big red smile. The final touch was light jutting out of me on all sides....hahaha............transformation...huh? Again the bottom line is every movement we as humans do affects our whole body even our eye sockets.
Our bones are conected and if we don't move them all we hold tension. Of course the movements are so small it's barely noticeable. Feldenkris says,the smaller the movement the better. Makes for effortless and aesthetically pleasing! It was a very good experience. My left foot pain got fixed (it use to be painful for me to take long walks) I like the seminar so much that I bought the teachers CD so I plan to work these very slow sublte movements every day. She told me to stop my Physical therapy (for my shoulder that really is basically fine) and do Feldenkris. No problem! (smile)Feldenkris it is! I have an area in the museum with a matt and I plan to do 30 to 40 minutes every day.