When you balance yourself, don’t you often say “oh, I have a bad coordination!” because you have poor stability? How about when you experience something (e.g., pain, lost a job etc…) which you are not able to control by yourself, how would you adapt to the experience in order to center yourself with ease and comfort? Would it be better if you know how to coordinate your body and mind together in order to live your life better?

Do you want to improve quality of your sleep? I just did a survey to my Instagram followers and asked what they want to improve in their life. I found out that many people were interested in improving quality of their sleep. The length of their sleep was 6-hr on the average. Despite the result showing many of them were satisfied with their sleep, the survey outcomes indicated these people are also interested in improving quality of their sleep.

What is a difference between “attention” and “awareness” when we’re learning a new skill? They are different. A definition of “attention” is that we are present and deeply listening and asking to ourselves such as we pay “attention” to what we are doing (e.g. talking, cooking, singing, working etc...). In contrast, “awareness” is our outcomes/experiences of how we are doing from our attention of what we are doing.

I will teach a series of Japanese ATM lessons from June 9th to July 7th (2021), called “Feeling the Floor, Connecting Yourself ~Flexibility of Body and Mind~.” The element of this series is composed by child development as known as “Baby Lessons” in Feldenkrais world while Feldenkrais Method is a movement based “learning process” (e.g., finding a way to improve performance or pain/limitations in one’s own way with ease and comfort). Two questions might arise: 1) how is child development related to human development?” and 2) how is each of our learning process during child development related to our current learning process/life?”

What is “functioning” to us? Is it a way to live our life better by moving our body such as playing, walking, cooking or running? Or Is it a way to connect with our loved ones or others via talking, laughing, singing or smiling? There is no right or wrong answer to define “functioning” to us because each of us has a different way to live our life better. But when our “functioning” suddenly or gradually became “inefficient” as unnecessary “pain/tension” (e.g., emotionally and/or physically, conflict with others) was developed, how would we want to improve our functioning?

Have you ever paid attention to your “voice” when you’re singing or communicating with others? For example, when you sing high notes, does your whole body sense the sound without putting effort to your vocal cords? How do you sense the quality of your voice? How does your voice go smoothly to hit high notes? What do you sense at your chest when you sing low notes? What is the shape your mouth and your facial expression when you sing?

In 2020, our life was dramatically changed via COVID-19 pandemic. The most drastic change in our lifestyle was probably the establishment of “social distancing” in order to minimize spread of COVID-19. Although I wrote about the impact of “social distancing” in my June blog “Functional Integration, what is touch to us?,” disconnecting with people via “social distancing” has affected our self awareness as well as vitality in this moment.

What is “good posture” to us? How do we look like when we have “good posture?” When we make good posture, are we putting lots of intentional effort such as by “standing up straight,” “lifting chest up,” “bringing shoulder blades back and down,” “tightening core,” “tucking chin down” and/or “rolling pelvis back” etc…?

When we want to improve our performance or physical condition such as chronic pain, do we feel like we’re doing something wrong with or without a reason? Do we seek an advice from an expert? When we share our goal with others, do we want to be guided by them?

When you were little, what did you dream? When you recalled your dream what do you discover yourself? Are you excited or unexcited?

When you hear “balance,” what does it mean to you? How do you sense or notice your balance during daily activity or playing sports? Is it coming from your feet or other parts of your body? When do you notice changes in your balance? How does your balance affect you and/or your life?

Many people including me have been wondering “what is Awareness Through Movement (ATM) lesson?

I started to teach 5 series of ATM lesson, Change in Vision Through Movement ~Awareness of Awaking Vitality~, via Zoom from this week. I made this lesson theme from my driving experience at the beginning of COVID-19.

Since our “social distancing” began due to COVID-19 pandemic, I have started to think and learn the meaning of Functional Integration (FI, one on one session of Feldenkrais Method) more in depth as I’m currently in my Feldenkrais training.

Exciting News! On May 1st, thousands of people around the world will lie down and do a Feldenkrais Awareness Through Movement® lesson ONLINE.