ccNow Cart/
My previous post on Empowering Autonomy has generated interesting and worthwhile comments, pointing out areas where my meaning and sometimes my thinking were less clear than they could have been, or where I could usefully expand on something. These comments seem to bear out my earlier observation that we each understand the world through our [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Awareness'
More thoughts on Autonomy
June 8th, 2009 · 9 Comments · Awareness, Choice, Feldenkrais, autonomy
Tags:
Empowering Autonomy
June 1st, 2009 · 7 Comments · , Awareness, Feldenkrais, somatic organization
The Feldenkrais Method serves many purposes. It can help you learn to move more easily and fluidly, to lessen chronic pain and discomfort, to moderate limitations created by neurological damage, to perform better at many different tasks, to heal old emotional traumas, and to understand yourself and your ways of being in the world more [...]
Tags:
The importance of pelvic flexibility
February 2nd, 2009 · No Comments · Awareness, Effort, balance, being grounded
The experience of being grounded comes from having a clear proprioceptive sense of the path of support from the ground beneath you through your feet. When your body weight is carried by a balanced, relaxed skeleton the supportive forces pass cleanly from one bone to next along the path, making that path of support relatively [...]
Tags: Awareness·balance·grounding·pelvis·skeletal alignment·walking
Which way is up?
January 4th, 2009 · No Comments · Awareness, Feldenkrais, Perception, balance, being grounded, somatic organization
There are few questions in life more important than “Which way is up?” We joke about that, describing someone who doesn’t grasp what’s going on around him by saying “he doesn’t know which way is up.” The question, though, is one that you really do need to answer almost constantly, whenever you’re awake and upright. [...]
Tags:
Pushing down is not being grounded
December 20th, 2008 · 2 Comments · Awareness, Feldenkrais, balance, being grounded
Being grounded is a natural way of being — part of our human biological heritage honed by millions of years of evolution. And yet, in contemporary society, really being grounded is relatively rare. Being ungrounded is much more the norm. It’s part of a class of behaviors that I think of as pathologies of civilization [...]
Tags:
