The institute was not called
The Inquiry of the Movement and its Improvement.
This is an indisputable fact,
how come this is forgotten and neglected?

Often, when we think fast [1], the meaning of an expression can slip by.

The order of the words in this case is not insignificant. If the purpose is awareness, it should be the first word, if the purpose is movement, it is the other way around. But it doesn't mean the same thing. In the inquiry, paying attention to the details makes a difference.

Moshe Feldenkrais thought slowly as he worked out his path.

"Moshe Feldenkrais himself has been very keen in asserting that his Method is not to be considered another kind of physiotherapy or movement training.

He was ridiculing the opinion of some people that considered his system as a kind of "body - work." He strongly believed that people could learn to have better control over their actions, and hence be healthier. It had to start with clarifying certain ways the brain perceives and acts and seeing the movements of the body as expressing processes within the central nervous system (CNS)."

The four components of the action
(tanke) THOUGHT - מַחֲשָׁבָה
(emotion) FEELING - הרגשה
(varseblivning) SENSATION - תחושה
(rörelse) MOVEMENT - תנועה

"To think, for example, a person must be awake and know that he is awake and not dreaming. That is, he must sense and discern his position in relation to the gravitational field. Hence, movement, senses, and feeling are also used in thinking.

To be angry or happy, a person must be in a certain position and in some relationship to another person or object. That is, he must move, feel, and think.

To see, hear, or have spatial orientation, a person must be interested, startled, and notice what happened. That is, he must move, feel, sense, and think.

To move, a person must use at least one of their senses, consciously or unconsciously. That is, to feel, to sense, to think.

When one of the components is so small that it disappears completely, the action is involved in a real danger to existence. Without movement it is difficult to exist even for a fairly short time. Without senses there is no possibility of existence at all. Without emotion there is no drive to live; the feeling of suffocation pushes to breathe. Without minimal thinking, reflex thinking, even an insect cannot grow old."

"...In the beginning of 1982, Moshe Feldenkrais returned home to Tel Aviv, shortly after undergoing a major skull operation for a subdural hematoma.
The operation had been successfully performed in Switzerland, and Feldenkrais had remained there for an appropriate convalescence. Now that he was at home, he wanted to regain the physical ability to work on people giving Functional Integration sessions as quickly as possible.
I worked on him three times a week, giving him Functional Integration sessions. What struck me immediately was a deterioration of the relationship between head and trunk. I knew that wonderfully organized neck from before the operation, and Moshe's old ability to move his head with the greatest of ease in all possible directions..."

A text from Acquiring the Feldenkrais Profession
Structure and function, page 34

"We can define four relevant factors that constitute a human being acting within his or her environment:
the skeleton, the muscular system, the central nervous system, and the environment.

Each of these require the special professions that can deal with the respective issue: orthopedists, surgeons, neurologists - psychiatrists, and professionals who deal with the various aspects of the environment - constructors, architects, carpenters, and the like. We can envisage the four factors as the four sides of a quadrangle:"

 "*The corner 'environment-CNS' symbolizes the interface through which sensory information arrives from the sense-organs to the brain and serve there as the basis for planning suitable actions, either to change parts of the environment, or to adjust to it. The Feldenkrais Method deals with efficiency and with the possible alternatives for those processes as well. 

*The corner 'CNS-muscles' denotes the processes that come into play with the intentionality of the action itself: deciding to take the action or choosing a non-habitual way of acting, etc., again, typical considerations of the Method. "

"*The corner 'muscles-skeleton' refers to the conversion of muscular effort into movement, and all the considerations of alternative options and efficiency are our concern.

*Finally, the corner 'skeleton-environment' alludes to a twofold interaction: adjustment to the environment, including the tendency to look for support and the various anti-gravitational responses, and the actions by which one does work on parts of the environment, by exchange of energy. Here again, the Method has its own way of clarifying the situation and seeking efficiency."

Professor Karl H. Pribram, with a broad background that includes neurosurgery, psychology and brain science visited the San Francisco training. Talks between him, and Moshe Feldenkrais are published.

Classical Feldenkrais uses Image of Action
Karl H. Pribram uses Image of Achievement

Karl H. Pribram published a book called Brain And Perception with the subtitle holonomy and structure in figural procession.

The book is a collection of manuscripts and reported studies first published in 1991 and the edition I have found at iBooks, was published in 2011. Feldenkrais Foundation is mentioned as giving a grant for the publishing together with another five names and institutions. 

In chapter six with its title Images of Achievement and Action Spaces: Somatic Processes in the Control of Action,
I find some relevant material for the argument that action is not equivalent with movement.

What attracts my attention is that he writes that the distinction between movement and action is often confused in scientific literature. As so often, different professions use different designations. His example is how ethnologists use the term behavior to describe a sequence of movements. In experimental psychology, a behavior is the act, the environmental consequence of movement. He states that images of achievement is a construction as other precepts. Some achievements are to a great extent genetically programmed as those developments leading to walking and eating, swimming and talking intermediate, and achievements such as writing are for the most part learned.

Skills such as riding a bicycle, skiing, golfing, musical performances, and writing all depend for their execution on the development of appropriate images of achievement. It is characteristic of such skills for achievement to be essentially invariant across movement. Entirely different movements carry out writing on a pad of paper than those that carry out writing on a blackboard. Nor is writing dependent on using familiar musculature.

Pribram gives a clear and thoughtful example when a right-handed person walks down to the beach and write the personal signature in the sand with the left big toe. The result will be both readable and identifiable as the signature. Another example is placing a piece of chalk between the teeth writing on a blackboard.

The signature is imaged - consciously or unconsciously; different sorts of movements are equivalent in producing the imaged consequence, the act.

To my understanding this reasoning corresponds well to classical Feldenkrais, that is:

Addressing the elements of action to
enrich the self-image
and, as a consequence also,
the image of action (achievement),
all together,
as an undivided whole.