Moshe's Nervous System in Historical Context

Moshé Feldenkrais didn't have – science didn't yet offer him – the vocabulary that would allow him to get past the brainy-mind and to the whole-self mind. He talked about the 'nervous system' where we might better refer to organismic systems interacting in a non-hierarchical way. He was still stuck, sometimes, in the brain-in-a-jar themes of the previous centuries. But he still knew, in his bones, what he needed to know. He still knew that somewhere in the organismic middle muddle, healing could happen. He knew that if you move slowly and gently and lovingly enough, an awareness would blossom, and that awareness would extend to more than your knee or hip or shoulder girdle. He knew how to get consciousness and body sensations to dance together.