Intended Intention

Hello and welcome!

Oh you're just browsing? That's fine. If you have any questions my name is Denise and I'd be happy to help.

This is how we're trained to welcome customers in the store I manage. This is how I train my staff to welcome customers. Because if it is discovered that we don't use this phrase, it is reported back to the powers that be — to whom I then need to explain myself.

Today I was listening to a book on CD by Seth Godin titled "Tribe. We Need You To Lead Us", in which he says something along the lines of 'managers do not lead they merely manage within set parameters'. That has to be amongst to truest statements I've heard. It's a good thing that in my other life I'm a Feldenkrais Practitioner and even better that I'm also married to a Feldenkrais Practitioner who gently eases me out of my mold each evening.

As anyone in the know knows, the Feldenkrais Method is all about individuality, about breaking the mold (on a side note: you should never use the expression 'break' in the bodywork industry... so it’s a good thing we're in the education industry instead); or perhaps better stated it's about disregarding the mold and doing what works best for you.

Well, this blog hasn't started at all how I'd anticipated. Do I go back and erase it (not very Feldenkrais) and start on perhaps a more professional note like I'd intended?

Speaking of intention please allow me to start over. After all if we always did what we intended, then no-one would need The Feldenkrais Method. And as we know everyone can benefit from the Feldenkrais Method. And I sincerely do mean this — no sarcasm intended here - I truly do believe that everyone, every single person out there, can benefit from The Feldenkrais Method.

So to start again, I do sincerely welcome you to my blog and do hope you have a good browse around. This blog has come about from listening to the before mentioned CDs by Seth Godin in which he speaks about tribes and leaders and sharing of information. I have been inspired! This is the first blog I have ever attempted so bear with me while I sort out what is interesting to everyone and what is only interesting to me.

The 'intended' purpose of the blog is to help people understand the Feldenkrais Method and how it can help. Since The Feldenkrais Method is so multi-faceted it makes it very difficult to explain succinctly. What I hope to do is look at articles about (or not about) The Feldenkrais Method and related (or unrelated) health and movement material; write up my interpretations of these (and most probably some incredibly witty anecdotes from my own life — sarcasm intended) and see if I can't make this an enjoyable and informative blog for anyone interested in The Feldnekrais Method. I very much encourage comments and debates and sharing of information and maybe together we can work out a perfect (again not very Feldenkrais - so lets say suitable but malleable) definition for this Method that I feel so passionately about.

NB: This entry was not written by Patrick Hughes as it states below but by Denise Hughes (I hadn't yet created my own account)