The FP Weekly Zoom Class
Pay-what-you-can tuition
Feldenkrais Awareness Through Movement:
Effortless Action
All replays now available. Nick Strauss-Klein led all dates.
All lessons replay emails include optional free “homework” lessons for additional study.
Newcomers welcome!
Our friends over at Feldenkrais First recently reminded me of a provocative Moshe Feldenkrais quote from his book The Potent Self, and I can’t stop thinking about it.
Even Feldenkrais himself said it may sound “utterly preposterous” at first:
The sensation of effort is the subjective feeling of wasted movement.
Think about that for a moment. It’s unequivocal, but is he really saying that sensing ANY effort implies that our biomechanics could be better? Isn’t feeling effort ok? A little effort is easy to push through with willpower, which can be satisfying, right? And what about feeling effort when we exercise – isn’t that ok?!
Feldenkrais’s ideas about how best to improve ourselves were radical when he first taught them, and like this one, many still are.
In October’s pay-what-you-can FP Weekly Zoom Classes we cracked open this dense nugget of wisdom through Feldenkrais Awareness Through Movement (ATM) lessons and short talks on the topic of effortless action.
Benefits of ATM study include reduced pain, more satisfying and sustainable patterns of action (in day-to-day, athletic, and artistic movement), enriched self-discovery and personal autonomy, and a more accessible sense of calm and comfort. We learn to function with more ease, confidence, and pleasure in all that we do. Together we study Feldenkrais in pursuit of a more skillful, intentional, and joyful life!
We study a wide variety of ATM lessons. Newcomers are very welcome, though the last class of the month may not be appropriate for newcomers to Feldenkrais.
The FP Weekly class is an opportunity to be in a lively nurturing dialog of curiosity about the principles and practice of the Feldenkrais Method, so we can harness its wonderful self-improvement tools to move and feel better in all that we do.
See you on the mat,
– Nick