Gestures of Love - Embracing Self Recording Available

Explore the gestures of love in four seated Awareness Through Movement® lessons that can be done from any place with special meaning – and WiFi.   The “Love” begins with a topical reading selected by Rabbi Donna Kirshbaum followed by a guided, body-based meditation.  Learn about the life of Dr. Moshe Feldenkrais, his groundbreaking ideas on learning, maturity and human potential.  

Our first lesson, “Embracing Self” develops from bringing attention to the sensitivity of the hands, to gradually sliding the hands along the body into a gentle self hug. Along the way come connections between hands, hips, breath and heart.

The lesson opened with a poem offered by Rabbi Donna Kirschbaum of Bethlehem Hebrew Congregation: We, unaccustomed to courage
 exiles from delight

live coiled in shells of loneliness
 until love leaves its high holy temple

and comes into our sight
 to liberate us into life.

Love arrives

and in its train come ecstasies

old memories of pleasure

ancient histories of pain.

Yet if we are bold,

love strikes away the chains of fear

from our souls.

We are weaned from our timidity.

In the flush of love’s light
 we dare be brave


And suddenly we see

that love costs all we are
 and will ever be.


Yet it is only love
 which sets us free.

             Maya Angelou (1928 - 2014)

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Participation in this series is open to all. Advance Registration Required. Please consider a donation to Bethlehem Hebrew Congregation.   Suggested donation $5/recorded lesson but not required.  Send checks to Bethlehem Hebrew Congregation, PO Box 395, Bethlehem NH 03574. Or online.