Weekly Live Feldenkrais
Tuesday mornings, 9:30-10:30 AM CDT
Pay-What-You-Want model. Newcomers are always welcome and you will receive a recording when you order a class, whether you attend live or not.
It’s easy to feel reactive and out of control as we face 2020’s many challenges. Back in the early summer my wife and I made some decisions after we realized it was time to settle into the new “normal”. The necessities of life, work, and parenting were ongoing, even as we were feeling so much new stress and effort in our commitment to keeping our family safe and doing whatever we could – however small – to heal local, national, and global problems.
We realized the best thing we could do for ourselves and our kids, the thing that would most help us sustain our family’s safety and our efforts to make the world a better place, was to decide that day-to-day life needed to feel good in our household, and make choices about what we could and couldn’t do within that voluntary constraint.
After we recommitted to a quality of lovingkindness among the six of us, the long term challenge my wife and I faced as we juggled our jobs and full-time parenting with zero childcare instead became a profound family blessing, and a springboard of strength for doing good outside our family. I even ended up writing a donor newsletter about making lemonade out of 2020’s lemons.
In our live class each week I ask my ATM students to care for themselves, so they can better care for their friends and families, so together we can all make the world a better place. Embedded in the practice of the Feldenkrais Method is a practice of lovingkindness that can be scaled up far beyond ourselves.
Deciding to be gentle and patient with ourselves no matter what, not to exceed our limits as we move and explore and learn, is a practice and a process that expands our abilities in every sphere of life. Starting with ourselves, let’s make the world a better place – it surely needs us right now.
Our theme for October’s classes will be “Practicing Lovingkindness”. See you on the mat.
– Nick