Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #217201 in Books
• Published on: 1981-06
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 158 pages

Customer Reviews

Fundamentals of daily life and habits to overcome to become a better person and have a long life.
This book of The Elusive Obvious deals with learning new ways to change your way you move your body and learn to improve your life after having a injury or stroke sickness etc. He is a great author and great learning Feldenkrais method descriptions and about the author Moshe Feldenkrais.

The Elusive Obvious
In my opinion, the most readable and interesting of Feldenkrais's books.
The best introduction to Feldenkrais work is really experiential but words can give context to experience and also broaden the range of that experience. This book offers that. It shows that Feldenkrais' interests were continuing to evolve later into life. The applications and explanations of his work resonate with me far more strongly than, say, the ones in Potent Self, Body and Mature Behaviour, or even Awareness Through Movement.
Those books have their own strengths(altough for me Potent Self and Body And Mature Behaviour are incredibly dull) but this book hints at a far more human approach to the work only hinted at in Awareness Through Movement.
There are some interesting anecdotes including an encounter with Heinrich Jacoby(whose work paralleled Feldenkrais's own) and the works of Milton Erickson, J.Z Young, and Schrodinger(amongst others) are reccomended.
For those wishing to experience the work find an Awareness Through Movement class near you(with a teacher you like) or try individual Functional Intergration sessions. To read Feldenkrais' own words about his method then his Awareness Through Movement book might be the first stop as it gives practical instruction and some of the theory surrounding the lessons. This should definitely be the next stop as, it is in my opinion a fascinating insight into Feldenkrais' thinking at a certain stage in his life and far more readable and enjoyable than any of his other books. It is sadly, out of print.

Awareness through movement.
Oddly enough this genre is not my typical pick. Admittedly I read this book because a totally different type of guru recommended it for "inner game". He was particularly fascinated with the title "Elusive Obvious". In any case the book is written by the very talented Moshé Feldenkrais, who's method of awareness through movement transforms ones body into a state of total efficiency. He begins with walking through our earliest movements as infants, and how that movement ultimately creates our concept of awareness. Feldenkrais details his theories of how certain movements correlate with the nervous system. If your into Yoga or reflexology then you will appreciated this book more than me. As for my "inner game" I have learned that no movement should go to waste.

The book also has a pullout chart that illustrates the proper movements of which Feldenkrais speaks of in his book.