→ Audio and video clips of Moshe Feldenkrais © International Feldenkrais® Federation Archive. Amherst Training, June 8 & 9, 1981. All rights reserved. Used with kind permission.

You and what you are
are distinct from me
distinct from anybody else.

You are like a piece of gold
Did you know that?
And you're distinct from anybody else.

You can, like changing the form of gold, the shape of it, the use of it, you can act in any way you want.

You can act in any way you want, but provided you know what you're doing.

If you don't know what you're doing you can't act the way you want because you don't know what to change and how to act to get it, how to change your action.

Therefore, your action can be varied as your handwriting.

Look there are 4 1/2 billion people, there are 4 1/2 billion handwritings and it's the same thing. It's handwriting.

It's an individual and therefore, unless you find out in which way(s) (you) fail to realize the intention…

You have to get the whole function: That's why we call it Functional Integration.

The function is the intention and the realization of the intention. That's the function. Each time a different one.

The entire person must get that sort of thing, clarified, make it click, make it oiled, grease it, so that it's quick and it's good and it gives you the feeling of, oh!

“It's elegant!”

I don’t do anything else—- just your intention and it's realized. That's all.

You don’t have to do anything

And then you can feel aesthetically satisfied and that means that you don't think at all.

You just feel that you could do it again because it's pleasant to do.

"One we can learn a movement, we know it well—in every direction, in every detail We are now free to write our own handwriting.” - Moshe Feldenkrais, June 18, 1980

This video montage was originally created as part of the Feldenkrais Mixtape series, also available in Movement and Creativity Library.