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From Irene Gutteridge, Feldenkrais Practitioner in BC, and her Next 25 Years project:

At http://line04.unblog.fr, Yveline Cyazinski, a French psychoanalyst, philosopher (and poet), is engaged in a wonderful project of questioning Feldenkrais orthodoxy about the word (and analytic orthodoxy about the body).

The question came up in class recently "How many ATMs are there?"

Ron suggested the answer "5,243", which is as good an answer as any other!

From the beginning, I started taking notes on ATMs (Janet Alexander in Toronto) with an eye to "how these things work." So at first I thought, okay, you do one side, then the other, then both. That's how it works.

Someone shared on feldyforum the following video of Moshe demonstrating "FI" to a scientific audience at CERN, near Zurich:

Watch Moshe Feldenkrais in CERN in How to Videos  |  View More Free Videos Online at Veoh.com

This great old NFB short came to me via the Canadian Design Weblog. It's very refreshing on the eyes after a decade of computationally-generated portrayals of gait.

The question of situating a method such as the Feldenkrais Method is not a simple one. After decades developing his work in a European and Israeli context, the conduit of Feldenkrais into North America was the Esalen Institute, the spiritual home of the 1970s personal growth movement.

I'm reading the Elusive Obvious, one of Moshe's half-dozen books. He wrote it after the first San Francisco training of the mid-seventies, in response to a request to "summarize his teachings" of that four-year training program.

Moshe is a little like some eccentric old uncle who likes to brag about all the Nobel Prize winners he's ever known and laid hands on--and who have respected him. It used to bother me a lot more before I realized just how challenging it is to introduce an new practice to the world. Recruiting famous people to the cause is an effective method, and who he recruited and boasted of says something. He didn't go after the Beatles.

We're taking our lovely new dog to obedience school. She's very clever and she enjoys it a great deal. The joke about obedience school is that mostly it's about training the owners, not the dog. Indeed, the first day it was my turn to take the dog, one of the assistants came over and commented generously that the dog was doing great but I was doing terrible!

In his book Awareness Through Movement, Moshe imagines that a reader, after working through the twelve lessons he presents there, could continue with his or her own daily practice, thinking up new lessons and spending as much time as he or she chooses on them (p. 64).

I have a dream...an unavowed dream that is about to become avowed...

It is a dream that ca. US$300 a year per practitioner could buy Guild Certified Feldenkrais Practitioners a professional organization that wouldn't respond to its members' requests for support in practice-building with veiled suggestions that real grown-ups don't expect their professional organization to support such trivial and grubby things.