Sixteen weeks and counting
This week I looked back at my calendar and realized that this upcoming week (June 30) marks the 16th week I have been teaching Awareness Through Movement® classes virtually, on Zoom. Sixteen weeks!
I am very grateful to everyone who has been joining our weekly classes including current and former students as well as people with no prior Feldenkrais experience who are taking the opportunity to explore and learn something new. I am impressed with everyone’s adaptability to the technology and their enthusiastic participation.
In the theme of exploring new opportunities, I have been reading new publications, participating in on-line workshops and classes and have just begun an 8-week advanced training with my teacher. While not technically a new opportunity, it is great to study with him again and I feel like I have evolved in a way to benefit from him and the classes in a new way. I also appreciate the ability to learn and connect with him and others from my home and not have to travel to the US. I have already learned new things that have informed my teaching.
In this week’s class we reflected on Victor Frankel’s quote:
“Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom.”
What does it mean to be in the space between stimulus and response? How do we choose our response? What are the impacts of different responses?
In Awareness Through Movement classes we use movements to explore these questions. In our movement explorations we choose when to act/move, how to act/move, what other parts of our body to include in our actions/movements and how, how to use the floor/surface we are on to support and guide our movements. We can appreciate the slight pause between exhaling and taking in another breath, taking a moment in time to be rather than doing. Our classes are about the exploration and not the outcome.
I invite you to join us as we all deepen our learning and reflection now during these interesting times and as we prepare ourselves for our always changing world.
