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Gestures of Love: Awareness in (Your Personal) Sanctuary 2020 BHC Summer Awareness Through Movement® Series

Part 1: Embracing Oneself

Kindness to self is the root of love - soften the chest and the heart with a deep self hug

Friday, July 17th 9:30 - 10:30 am via Zoom.

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 Kirshenbaum 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.

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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.

Don’t miss the rest of the series!

July 24 | Tenderness for Self and Others
Explore the gentleness of soft hands and tender gestures 

July 31 | Humility and Devotion before the Divine (Tisha B’av)
Prayer, prostration, grief and submission as aspects of love

August 7 | Closed with a Kiss
The ultimate gesture of love, bit by bit

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