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Old 02-28-05 | 12:55 AM
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Ken Cox
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MKRG wrote:

"Feldenkries??? Screw that new age horse crap...Give me a case of Pabst and I'll show you how to properly reorganize your innards."

New age?
I wouldn't have thought of it that way.
MKRG's comment makes the second time I have heard someone call Feldenkrais new age.
I don't get it.

If a person lifts weights, rides a bike, swims and does some running, he will get stronger and his stamina will improve.
Magic?
New age?

If a person's bike leans to the right or the left, only when he rides no hands, I would suspect a curved spine first, especially since we all have some weird curvature of the spine anyway.
Like the goofy way John Wayne used to walk?

If a person has lots of money or good health insurance, he can fix a moderately curved spine with physical therapy, and specifically Feldenkrais therapy.
Simple physics and physiology; no voodoo or new age stuff.
If a person doesn't have lots of money or good health insurance, he can take a budget yoga class, and, even if it doesn't straighten the curvature of his spine he can at least meet some nice people.

A guy has a bike that leans to the right only when he rides with no hands.
Think about it.
What changes?
But maybe he does have a bent fork/stem/whatever, and it makes the bike lean differently depending on whether or not he uses his hands.
That sounds easily fixable.
But what about when he rides someone else's bike?
Does it lean?
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