Why Things Turned out the Way They did

This excerpt from Rachel Cusk’s newest novel Second Place reminds me of why awareness is a skill worth building:

I had no idea at all why things turned out the way they did, why I felt gorged with sensation at one minute and starved of it the next, where my loneliness or joy came from, which choices were beneficial and which deleterious to my health and happiness, why I did things I didn't want to do and couldn't do what I wanted. Least of all did I understand what freedom was and how I could attain it.

While the attention you hone and the principles you engage within Awareness Through Movement are not a panacea, they can be helpful in contexts beyond biomechanics. It's this potential for a wider application of the principles that can make the Feldenkrais Method a rich process.

Why is self-awareness a useful skill for you to build and refine? Besides your movement, is there another scenario in your life where applying the principle even distribution of effort could be useful?

On another note, there will be no weekend classes until fall, and I will teach two live classes per week in July, and likely only one per week in August.