Life has to not be all Feldenkrais while I am here, so this morning I arose early enough (thanks Jenn for the call early, it feels great to talk to someone other than a server or class mate) to go shopping at Keihls...old fashioned new twist cosmetics store that in 1975 looked like a museum, and has now updated itself, while retaining the old sense. Unfortunately, my penchant for carry on only meant that their moisterizer wasn't purchased as it wasn't available in travel size. I then went on to Whole Foods, and purchased breakfast for the rest of the week...$8.25.
Fresh peaches were bought at the weekday Union Square market...I thought nit only happened on Saturday. $2.42.
It's come back to me what we did yesterday...we were given a an ATM that resulted in my right leg being even longer than my left leg, and, for the first time at least for me, the leader didn't go through the process of doing the other side. It resulted in my body having both my usual process and feelings on one side, and a new way on the other, and my brain body had the choice of assimilating the new or going back to the old. Judging by the ways my knees feel today, it went for the new!
Breath was the focus of the morning. It is an area of particular interest to me as several people have identified me as breathing "wrong" and one person helped me by identifying it as paradoxical breathing. I have learned (from twisting my diaphragm the first time I did this kind of exercise to a) pay close attention b) visualize beforehand. Today I missed the denouncement of the exercise by thinking too much.
Then we watched Moshe. We were warned his scope of skills was wide, a mathematician, physicist, top Judo expert, lived in Paris, London, Scotland, Palestine, and Israel, spoke 5 languages and on the other hand he was born in rural Ukraine and was of a generation where PC was unknown. I'd sum him up as a nerd. He was interested in what became his life's work since a teenager, and while he was highly verbal, what he was teaching was all about movement and feeling, so the gap is large. I am not being my typical involved in discussion self. Listening carefully, forming my own questions, and then seeing if they get answered rather than pushing forward. It's a change, and that's the point of this...change.
In the afternoon, a long ATM that I had done before. But I'd done it when my right shoulder was greatly hampered, so it was fun to do it and feel great change. I happen to know that tomorrow it will conclude with getting us into standing. I am looking forward to that...as it sure didn't work out last time.
And tonight, after a nice meal (17.95) of pasta, broccoli rabe, and pesto at LaFollia on 3rd and 20, I am arranging to see my friend Penny tomorrow night
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