Recently I had a dream where I was coaching a student in one of our Feldenkrais® Training programs about to take their final test to graduate.

 

Training programs about to take their final test to graduate. The Feldenkrais Method® of Somatic Education challenges one to inspect and possibly change lifelong habits of movement and thinking and being. The final test at the end of the 4-year training is to give a hands on Functional Integration® lesson to a person from the public in front of classmates and supervisors.

 

In my dream I talked to the student, about to become a practitioner of the method, about waiting as long as possible before deciding how to touch, how to communicate something important to the person on the table that they were working with. The waiting is so hard as we want to help, to do the right thing, to look and feel successful, to be a success and have the person feel better.

 

In the telling of my memoir, "Becoming Ravenbear", I have waited 50 years. In my story I have worked on distilling my life and what I feel is important to relate to potential readers. The events are quite dramatic as I very stupidly stumbled into the wilderness of Alaska, but miraculously managed to still be here today going on 80 years old. I made most of the mistakes one can in such raw and difficult environments but in the end was saved by the Ravens and the Spirits of the land.

 

They taught me about waiting, although in my stories it is obvious, I was an impatient student. But I survived to share my learning with you.