What Happens After the Calm? Reorganization of Movements

A calm—the kind that can settle over a body mid-lesson—seems to be the gate everything else passes through. I hypothesize that the Feldenkrais effect has to start with a calming of your interoceptive system, and that this is pleasant (oh yes) and it is a pretty good bet it is healthy. This alone may help you to 'learn' different patterns of engagement within yourself—to refresh your interoceptive organization. The more common way of thinking about the effect of Feldenkrais is in its invitation to you to expand your repertoire of movement: how you get out of a chair, how you paddle, how you reach for the cup... how you distribute effort throughout your spine and whether you have to squinch your eyes to do math. First calm, then (probably) some subtle changes (or more) to your interoceptive processes (chief among them your perception of pain) and then exploration of different patterns of movement, always looking for a wide repertoire and leaning into what feels good. So Feldenkrais might just be an enjoyable way to become astonishingly relaxed, it might also help your interoceptive patterns to find a 'refresh,' and it might help you choose more efficient or pleasing moves. But all of it depends on the calm.

[later arc: getting the consciousness in in a good way and distracted off somewhere else in its bad form]