The Joy of Discovering Yourself

If your noticing of yourself is devalued, if your map of yourself is old and blurry and if you have built a habit of ignoring your inner signals... fun times are ahead. Feldenkrais is all about you becoming reacquainted with your parts and their connections — the whole of you — and how it feels and how it would like to feel and all the different ways it could approach a simple task. I love the moment in a hands-on or spoken movement class when a person's face lights up. Yes! There's a clavicle there. Yes, it can move independently, and it rotates just a little but in an oh-so-important way. Yes your eyes affect your coordination, and not just from seeing. It is true — that breath feels good for this and the other breath feels good for that. But most importantly, yes, you can bear witness to your own self. Yes you really do know how to do this.