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Know?
Moshe Feldenkrais developed the Feldenkrais Method....
Rather than “fixing” the body, Moshe Feldenkrais
taught how to expand its capacities and ranges of choices.
“
I am going to be your last teacher. Not because I’ll be
the greatest teacher you may ever encounter, but because from
me you will learn how to learn. When you learn how to learn you
will realize that there are no teachers, that there are only
people learning and people learning how to facilitate learning.” With
those words, Moshe Feldenkrais began his first North American
training in 1975.
Feldenkrais is known for developing Functional Integration and
Awareness Through Movement.
Functional Integration is tailored to the needs of the individual;
through it one can establish or restore functional action in
the world.
Awareness Through Movement, the group work, consists of verbally
instructed sequences and combinations of movements. They are
done either in real life or in the imagination, and enable the
participant to improve both the range and quality of movement.
-Dennis Leri
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Esperanza
Did You Know?
The Mystery of Chi
It has been said that Chi animates old people exercising
in the park. Chi is what guides the body through meditation
and what lurks inside herbs. Chi is the invisible emission
that is supposed to flow from a Chi master’s hand.
Chuang Zi, the Taoist sage who lived more than 2000 years
ago defined Chi this way: “Human life is a gathering
of Chi....if it disperses, one is no more.” Chi is
also substance. Chi means being embodied and mindful simultaneously.
Chi might be called energy on the verge of becoming matter
and matter on the verge of becoming energy.
Chi creates Chi. According to the oldest Chinese medical
text, physical activities such as eating, work, and rest
and non-physical aspects of life such as will, motivation,
feelings, desires, sense of purpose, and hidden thoughts
are made possible by Chi, and these then give rise to Chi
again. Chi allows for unity without separating a human being
into fixed components: physical, mental, emotional, spiritual,
behavioral, social, artistic and intellectual.
For the Chinese, the dynamic of Chi is balance. Balance is
the Chinese definition of health.
-By Ted Kaptchuk
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“Fear is a natural reaction
to moving closer to the truth.”
-Pema Chodron
“Life is a good teacher and a good friend.
Things are always in transition, if we could only
realize it. Nothing ever sums itself up in the way
that we like to dream about. The off-center, in-between
state is an ideal situation in which we don’t
get caught, and in which we can open our hearts and
minds beyond limit.”
-Pema Chodron |
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