Awareness through Movement: Feldenkrais method as a way of thinking awareness

Our proposal in this paper aims at clarifying some of the theoretical and practical assumptions of the Feldenkrais method, considering the change implied by his project of a somatic method that does not want to exercise a body-object, but much more to teach what he named awareness through movements. A philosophical study of such a change allows us to discuss its concrete and conceptual effects, from a triple characterization of this awareness: dynamic, differential, and made of tendencies. Each one of those three aspects is successively considered studying some examples of the lessons, some Moshe Feldenkrais writings and a historical reference: the Weber-Fechner law.

Keywords:
Awareness; Sensation; Fechner; Feldenkrais; Philosophy