“Without movement life is unthinkable.”

“Movement is life. Life is a process. Improve the quality of the process and you improve the quality of life itself.”

—Moshe Feldenkrais

Attention to movement in the context of development involves so much more than locomotion or “milestones”. Underneath what many of us would look towards when we think of development, are fundamental moving relationships that make these things possible and meaningful.

Our study and learning in this Touchstones series focuses on the movements of our earliest life—before birth and through very early infancy. We are exploring the primary processes each one of us must utilize as living, moving entities to find our way with ourselves in our world.

These “touchstone” ATM’s have been selected because they point powerfully to an essential movement and function on which action and skill are built.

You will be asked to examine your understanding, assumptions, concepts, considerations that arise in relation to movement and development. As we look at these touchstone lessons, attention will continue to be directed toward the fundamental movement that underlies the emergence of motor control.

* Please note that each ATM is just one of many that can emphasize the experience of a chosen theme.

Opening and Closing

This month’s touchstones will concentrate on the property of the Vertebral Central Core Movement having to do with Folding.

We will start by revisiting the first of the Fundamentals lessons, and then attend to three more variations. These additional lessons will be added one each week.

Here’s the first Fundamentals lesson to get us started:

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