Flourishing with Feldenkrais
Before the pandemic was a twitch in a bat’s nose (that’s one theory), Moshe Feldenkrais was thinking about how humans can express their full individual potential. He was up to date on the leading neurophysiology of the day, the latest on psychology and psychotherapy and, of course, martial arts and movement.
Science is catching up with his vision. He anticipated neuroplasticity, intuited the physics of the action potential, and dared to think of a person as a whole.
He also build into his method the techniques to “flourish” as described in a New York Times article The Other Side of Languishing Is Flourishing. Here’s How to Get There.
The Feldenkrais Method encompasses all of the seven ways that, according to the article, science says can help us on the path to Flourishing.:
We stop and assess our progress frequently in the course of a lesson,
We savor the results at the lesson’s end
We appreciate and are grateful for how our body is able to learn
Coming from a place of balance, of curiosity and acceptance, we do good to ourselves and those around us.
We connect within self, with the class and community
We find purpose in everyday routines - each gives us an opportunity to break patterns and grow, a chance to find new ease and meaning in
We are all about trying something new! Variations, variations, variations, constraints, coming from a different direction