“Feldenkrais classes: a tune-up for mind and body”
I have enjoyed your article very much. It is great to see an article that does not focus on the latest trend in fitness or the latest gadget, but rather on the importance of awareness when engaging in any type of physical activity.
There is a wealth of information right inside the human body, readily available to us if we are only to pay attention and listen.
So far our world has been operating in the paradigm that our physicality is of no great importance or rather that it is only important from a consumerist perspective. Sure, we praise and admire healthy and athletic bodies, but more for their aesthetic quality and less as mirrors of healthy, balanced and conscious human beings.
The signals and messages we have been force fed over the last few decades left most of us completely disconnected from our bodies, so much so that we feel acutely powerless. We look outside ourselves for direction, advice and recipes for health. We have forgotten that there is an extraordinary wealth of knowledge embedded in our very own cells and we have lost our ability to listen.
The physical body is a miracle and it carries within – at a cellular level – deep knowledge of health, well-being and ease.
Our cells vibrate in distress long before an injury or an illness is physically manifested. Also, our cells will start vibrating at healthier levels before medical tests will confirm that we are in better states of health. It is at the level of our cells that great amounts of knowledge are stored. This knowledge is translated into emotions that will guide and help us choose the right path to a healthier and more fulfilling life.
Listening to our bodies is the ultimate vehicle to health and well being.
The Feldenkrais Method is one of the great systems of re-integration of mind and body that will ultimately teach us how to be healthier and happier in our physical bodies.
At peace in joyful and free bodies, our minds can create a better environment for ourselves and for humanity.