Expand Your Ability: Embodiment, Somatics, and Feldenkrais

"We all have more experience of movement, and more capacity for it, than of feeling and thought," says Moshe Feldenkrais in his 3rd argument for Why Movement as a basis for self-improvement.

In the North American culture I call home, there is a strong emphasis on personal growth through acquiring information like facts and ideas with not much of a focus on learning through movement (I understand the irony that I am creating a podcast to share information 😆).
 
Feldenkrais believes movement offers richer experience for us than thoughts and feelings. We can learn directly through movement and find out for ourselves.

In this episode you'll hear about:

- Movement's primacy in the nervous system.

- Jeffrey's personal experience of disregarding his body.

- Sensitivity vs. Over-Excitability (a continuation of the idea's from last's week's episode).

- Avoiding difficult feelings.

- "Thought-terminating Cliches".

- Uncovering our deep beliefs and stories.

- Feldenkrais' goal to lead people to being critical- and free-thinkers.

For this episode, I draw from Feldenkrais' book Awareness Through Movement.

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I am a Certified Feldenkrais Practitioner and Filmmaker. I am the director of the upcoming documentary on the Feldenkrais Method.

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Do you feel stuck lately? Are old ways of thinking, feeling, or moving holding you back? What do you need more support with?

I am doing research interviews with people like you in order to build an online course. Would you be open to a 15-20min interview? Send me an email:  jeffrey@expandyourability.com

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