Feldenkrais method is not hands on one to one; there is no way of giving the experience of inhibition, or non-doing, that is an essential part of Alexander technique in the Feldenkrais method.
Ian, have you read the GoF Design Pattern's book or even the architect Christopher Alexander's book 'A Timeless Way of Building' to which the GoF pay homage? -Peter 2008/9/24 Ian Glendinning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Gerhard, > > I see the Feldenkrais method is an inheritence / interpretation of the > earlier "Alexander" technique. A Cambridge tutor, who had once taught > ZMM at Berkley, pointed me at the ZMM connection with Alexander. I'd > not heard of Feldenkrais before. > > BTW - I too am an engineer, who originally came across "quality" in > business quality management, before the light came on (my seed crystal > moment) when I read ZMM, which was many years later than it needed to > be, given that management guru Tom Peters made explicit reference to > ZMM in his seminal "In Search of Excellence". > > You are right that quality is about individual practise. > Regards > Ian > > On Wed, Sep 24, 2008 at 2:16 AM, Gerhard Butscher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > Hi, > > > > Don't wonder about this post, just read it (again). > > > > I've read ZAMM and am about to read Lila (in german). I am very > impressed, > > but I'm not (yet) capable of discussing philosophical things, but I hope > I > > can inspire some people on the search for quality to look for it in other > > places. On the other hand, maybe my interest in philosophy started > because I > > met quality in the Feldenkrais method. > > > > Actually I just would like to suggest some "practises" on how to > experience > > quality. I'm electrical engineer and fresh feldenkrais teacher > > (unfortunately non practising) . I recognize now that I was in my whole > life > > searching for quality. One of the biggest light bulb moments was to do > > feldenkrais lessons and during the feldenkrais training the word quality > ist > > said many times during a day. Several times in a lesson. So if you want > to > > experience quality within your body immediately and (for me) with > guarantee > > you could do feldenkrais lessons. Best would be to find a practitioner, > > that's the best quality. But for the impatient here is a link with free > > material. (funny I see now that a patient goes to a feldenkrais > practitioner > > - but there he is called client. and an impatient doesn't. I'm usually > > impatient). > > > > The Feldenkrais Method is training your sense for quality. You are seeing > > more quality when you did a lot of Feldenkrais. I also discovered that > you > > see lack of quality in Feldenkrais teachers as well. But because the > method > > is "pure quality" this doesn't matter so much, because you are only > > interested in improving your quality or your way in looking at the > quality > > in the world. > > > > http://iod.ucsd.edu/~falk/openatm/<http://iod.ucsd.edu/%7Efalk/openatm/> > > > > I came to a second big light bulb moment which concerns the quality of > food. > > Did you know that some people found out that there is food for human > beings > > that fits best the genetic inheritance of human beings? This should be > not > > very surprising because all of us know that every animal usually needs > its > > proper food. I cannot explain it so well as Dr. Schnitzer does it in his > web > > site and books and I just want to give the link for further studies of > your > > own. Concerning digestion, I experience that the food proposed by Dr. > > Schnitzer is most easily digested and provides all nutrition that my body > > needs. And in some way I feel better than I did before. E.g. I can think > > more clearly and am less occupied with digesting and being tired. > > > > http://www.dr-schnitzer.de/introe1.html > > > > I would feel great, if someone could forward this information to Robert > > Pirsig. > > > > Gerhard > > > > P.S. If you want to know more about this post coming again, contact me > > directly. > > Moq_Discuss mailing list > > Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. > > http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org > > Archives: > > http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ > > http://moq.org.uk/pipermail/moq_discuss_archive/ > > > Moq_Discuss mailing list > Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. > http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org > Archives: > http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ > http://moq.org.uk/pipermail/moq_discuss_archive/ > Moq_Discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org.uk/pipermail/moq_discuss_archive/
