The Seed
The origin of the Feldenkrais Method
is mainly to be found in the brain.
Classical Feldenkrais' origin is understanding and decoding the function of the brain! There is a why involved.
As a reader you may object.
How I can make such a claim?
I refer to Yochanan Rywerant
with whom I have discussed this countless of times.
He is a reliable source from all aspects, as a natural scientist, as a teacher, as a trainer, as an author and his close collaboration with the discoverer of the Method.
Of course, there are several well-reported sources of inspiration, all involving a different how.
J. Bronowski, E. Coué, M. Erickson, Judo, Jiu-jitsu, R. Magnus, P. Schilder, A. Speransky and several others
I have no ambition to cover them all.
(Feel free to add)
There is also something of its own, a discovery, that differentiate Feldenkrais from other approaches, Methods and ways of improving and exploring the life process.
Unfortunately, this crucial detail about the brain and its virtues of activity is often overlooked in marketing and descriptions about the Method.
"The Feldenkrais Method is,
after all, a category in itself."
Quote from YR's article
Multiple quotes
"There are quite a number of ideas, theoretical and practical, that are part of the Feldenkrais legacy, of which many people are not even aware. After all,
everyone has a tendency of taking a new idea, or a set of ideas, and categorizing it, putting it, so to speak, in a drawer.
We all have in our mind "drawers" labelled with categories already known, and we might say, "This
reminds me very much of that. . ." "This is similar to what I know already. . ."
"Actually, we could call this so and so. . ." 'The difficulty arises when it is not
so easy to categorize the new idea. What happens then is, either we grasp the new idea as something distinct from the "usual" and remember it as such, or going with a diminished perspicacity-or laziness, if you like-of our mind, we consider the "new" part of the idea less important, perhaps less understood, and ultimately we discard it altogether. Lastly we leave this new idea
embedded in a drawer where it hardly belongs.
The latter shouldn't happen with the idea of the Feldenkrais Method. Some of these "drawers" are still out there in the minds of some people: Movement
Classes, Movement Therapy, another kind of Physiotherapy, etc."
This is an excellent talk as an introduction to the science connected to Classical Feldenkrais.
You don't have to understand everything, but be ready to question the old to make room for the new.
Classical Feldenkrais requires a review of the vocabulary used in Western thinking. That and much more.
I argue that everyone needs to be comfortable in what GB is talking about and which should be a second nature to a practitioner of what MF discovered and began to formulate almost 100 years ago.
Space-Time in Navigation & Memory | György Buzsáki
Scientific References
| Book/article/lecture | Author | Link |
|---|---|---|
1. Brain Function and Blood Flow | David Ingvar and others | Read more |
2. How brains make up their mind | Walter J Freeman | Read more |
3. The Molecular Biology of Memory Storage: A Dialog between Genes and Synapses | Eric R. Kendall | Listen & Read |
4. Language Processing Modulated by Literacy: A Network Analysis of Verbal Repetition in Literate and Illiterate Subjects | martin Ingvar and others | Read more |
5. Spatial Cells in the Hippocampal Formation | John O'Keefe | Listen & Read |
6. Grid Cells and the Enthorinal Map of Space | Edvard I. Moser | Listen & Read |
7. Grid Cells, Place Cells and Memory | May-Britt Moser | Listen & Read |
Introductory words and why my choices
- YR referred to this papper from 1978 as an early scientific evidence how FKM works
- YR recommended this book. It describes well how lessons work
- Neuroplastiscity was first awarded in 2000
- Exploring ATM is like becoming literate. Experienced students achieve other results.
- Time and space - Orientation & timing are central in the inquiry. Nobel Prize 2014
- see above
- see above
The Why became a How?
A heading in the ATM book
I have included this sequence because Karl Friston talks about Functional Integration. To me he describes what I understand about FI, reaching the whole, as described by MF & YR: Judge for yourself.
There are more videos to watch, interviews and of course research to read.
Karl Friston "is an authority on brain imaging and theoretical neuroscience, especially the use of physics-inspired statistical methods to model neuroimaging data and other random dynamical systems."