The Peaceful Body and Aging Gracefully^BF

Whether we are dancing a jig, hammering a nail, working at a computer, singing a song, or walking to the store, we possess an inherent capacity to move naturally. Moving naturally promotes ease, power, and expressiveness.

Unwittingly, we often interfere with our inherent design. Poise, grace, and ground give way to effort, tension, and fatigue.

Studying at The Movement School gives you practical knowledge of the principles governing human coordination, enabling us to be, at once, relaxed and ready, soft and strong, light and substantial, firm and flexible. Regaining deep structural support, we come down to the ground, to a place where we can rest, and to a place where we can work, live, and serve generously and freely.

Of course, there are many elements that bring grace to the process of aging. But one of them is knowing how to move well throughout our lives in accordance with our potentially gracefully changing bodies.

Grace – simple elegance, poise, and refinement of movement. Goodwill, to do honor. Decency, respect, acceptance, approval, generosity, kindness, and gratitude (in this case, towards our own bodies.)



On Innocence:
Through the Glistening Eyes of an Infant

an essay by Bruce Fertman

Babies don’t interfere with themselves.
Babies don’t judge, correct, or evaluate themselves.
They can’t make a mistake because they don’t know what it means to make a mistake.
Babies can’t fail because they don’t know what it means to fail.
Babies are moved to move. They don’t know why. What does why mean to them?

Babies want what they want. They are happy when they get it.
What they don’t want, they don’t accept. They’re honest.
Babies are unselfconscious, unabashed, and unpretentious.

We love them because we want to be like them...

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