Awareness Through Movement?

Most of us avoid pain until it prevents us from doing what we could do last year, or the year before. ATM gives us the power to be aware of where the twinge in the back will happen before we feel the pain of it. When our attention is turned toward internal sensation, emotions become calmer, and internal thought and conversation become quieter — perhaps even silent. From this process came one of the most known quotes from Moshe Feldenkrais: “The purpose of the method is to allow the impossible to become possible, the possible easy, and the easy elegant.”

• Pauses are moments to process sensations within your own sense of stillness.
• Observation is a path to follow; effort is a traffic jam that goes nowhere.
• Discomfort is a teacher; strain and pain are the enemy.
• A lesson is a space where nothing is compared, nothing is judged, and nothing needs to be right. 
• No action is too small, as long as it is done with awareness.
• Imagined sensation is just as real as movement we can see.
• Everyone’s path is different.
• As a teacher, I am only a guide. Your attention to what your own body tells you will lead you farther. 

Daily lessons are available here.

My history with ATM® up to the present, a diary of sorts is available here.