THE FOCUSED BODY: ATTENTION PRACTICES THROUGH FELDENKRAIS
Winter Feldenkrais Series
8 week series
December 7th - February 4th, 2025
Sundays 4pm CST & Wednesdays 6:30pm CST
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Livestream classes will be taught over Zoom
This week I shared the first lesson of the series, which directly uses subtle movements to strengthen ones capacity for sustained concentration.
Click here or the button below to watch the replay.
Students found this lesson a novel way to explore their attention with the added benefits of diminished pain, the enjoyment of play, and the pleasure that comes when we connect with ourselves.
Here are a few student reflections after the lesson:
"I have never focused on one part of my body for that long. I was surprised at how powerful that was and the possibilities it gave me for movement."
"This really helped soften an area of my pelvis that has been chronically sore."
"This lesson reminded me so much of the Alexander Technique, and both Inhibition and the Unified Field of Attention, although in a more subtle, slower, deeper experiential way. Feldenkrais has developed such calm, subtle lessons in a very unique way around these ideas of attention."
“To give the body attention and noticing what occurs before it moves … Wow… to listen to that felt so loving. It seems like the body typically acts with such conditioned reflexes and there can be so much force to our actions, but to slow down enough to watch and notice ourselves and where we move from, to look at it from a different perspective felt so loving, so gentle.”
It delights me that these pleasant feelings were brought on by curiosity and simple patient attention.
There is still time to join the livestream series or practice with the recordings asynchronously!
