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Body Awareness as Healing Therapy: The Case of Nora is Moshe Feldenkrais' classic study of his work with Nora, a woman who has suffered a severe stroke and lost her neuromuscular coordination, including the ability to read and write. Feldenkrais uses rational and intuitive approaches to help his student relearn basic motor skills. One can observe here the groundwork of Feldenkrais' extraordinary insights which became known as the Feldenkrais Method. We follow his detailed descriptions of the trial and error process which led him to see the ingredients that were needed to help Nora reshape her attention, perception, imagination and cognition.
Moshe helps Nora (a lady who had a stroke) recover her ability to move normally, obtain awareness of body, left, right...His technique is different. He can feel the person's mood, correct and incorrect movements, tension, relaxation... with his hands. He knows how to position the body certain ways and move it certain ways to correct malfunctions. Brings correct sense of body, space... awareness. I like the way he set Nora in a position that made her have a weightless effect. Very relaxed. He moved his hand on her head certain ways, lightly and made the spine feel all tension, pressure release, a weightlessness. I tried it, it works!I like how he teaches to learn left and right; he does not use the word left, right at first when teaching a specific left, right movement or awareness.Uses knowledge of the brain's function with the body. The left, right... brain hemispheres, their functions. Describes how babies, children learn to walk.., learn left, right.., speak, read, write. He uses special ways to produce these lost, impaired functions.I especially like the way he improved Nora's eyesight and produced ability to read words, sentences, then onto producing the ability to write.He used a straw held in the mouth/lips (where speech is used first as we grow, and then learn to read words, then write).Her hand was placed on the straw. The end of the straw under a word. The straw got the left and right eyes to focus together on the word.Nora would see 2 images of the straw when looking at a certain place along the straw. (the images produced by the left, right eyes. (A similar effect, practice is; the bead or brock string.)Moshe states many people have one eye that has clearer vision. He asked Nora if one of the eyes' images appear less solid..? She said yes. He said; that image is from the eye that has less clear vision. He then used the straw, techniques to improve the vision in that eye; got both eyes' vision improved and equal. She then after more treatments... was able to read! Seeing clear and also improved ability to understand the words, sentences.Moshe states; when the close vision (reading...) left-right eye convergence is improved; this also automatically improves the left-right divergence for the far vision.He respects his patients, treating them as equals, one human to another growing, improving each other. He learned a lot from Nora and other patients and thus improved, created his wonderful technique over many years practice. His past professions are also interesting, useful.Definitely recommend his books.