Gestures of Love
Awareness in (Your Personal) Sanctuary
2020 BHC Summer Awareness Through Movement® Series
The Birthday, Marc Chagall, 1915, Source: https://www.marcchagall.net/the-birthday.jsp
Explore the gestures of love in four seated Awareness Through Movement® lessons that can be done from any place with special meaning to students – as long as it has an internet signal. The “Love” begins with a topical reading selected by Rabbi Donna Kirshbaum followed by a guided, body-based meditation. Along the way, learn about the life of Dr. Moshe Feldenkrais, his ahead-of-his-time ideas on learning, maturity and human potential. Lessons are appropriate for people of all abilities, body types, levels of fitness, faiths and spiritual orientations.
Lesson 1 ~ Embracing Oneself
Download the recording of Embracing Oneself
Password: BHCLove_Lesson1
Lesson 2 ~ Tenderness for Self and Others
Download the recording of Gentle Touch
Password: BHCLove_Lesson2
Lesson 3 ~ Humility and Devotion before the Divine (Tisha B’av)
Recording for Lesson 3, Humility, Grief and Renewal
Password: BHCLove_Lesson3
Lesson 4 ~ Closed with a Kiss
Recording for Lesson 4, Close with a Kiss
Password: BHCLove_Lesson4
By donation to Bethlehem Hebrew Congregation. Suggested donation is $5/lesson. Send checks to Bethlehem Hebrew Congregation, PO Box 395, Bethlehem NH 03574. Or donate online at the BHC General Fund.
The BHC summer Feldenkrais series, Awareness in the Sanctuary, modified for the summer of Covid-19, is in its third year. Awareness Through Movement® is Dr. Moshe Feldenkrais’ life work and gift to humanity.
The practice is a form of body-based meditation of simple, small, and extreme low-impact movements bring students’ attention to how we habitually move, while giving the nervous system clues to finding easier, more comfortable alternatives.
Students find that, after a session, they walk taller, often forgetting old pains or habits. Dr. Feldenkrais is well-known in Israel; recent coverage in the New York Times and Washington Post have introduced his work to a bigger audience.
Jacki Katzman, BHC member and Guild Certified Feldenkrais Practitioner® leads these sessions.