Comments on: Sex, Drugs and Feldenkrais

By: ryannagy

ryannagy — Sun, 04 Nov 2012 20:48:50 +0000

Hi Lindy – Good to see your message. Thanks for the feedback! I have younger people in the back of my mind as well. It is our achilles heel, I believe. But I think it is just a matter of find the right message and strategy….though I have not figured it out yet…

Ryan

By: Lindy Ost

Lindy Ost — Sun, 04 Nov 2012 20:05:41 +0000

Hi Ryan,
Deborah Lotus posted a link to your most recent blog and while I read that one, I got interested in your sex, drugs and F. post. I too was touched by your experience and your ambition to provide lessons inexpensively. Some of us our slower in making full use of technology (me for example) but I keep moving just the same. What I am more interested in is how to get younger people interested. I seem to be able to get seniors interested but success with the younger set is not quite so easy. I will definitely direct people to your volumes. Thanks!

By: ryannagy

ryannagy — Fri, 14 Sep 2012 22:51:13 +0000

In reply to kim.

Thanks Kim. So far I am selling many more than I expected. Though it will be several months before I find out how they are selling on Amazon and iTunes.

Sorry to hear about the family “experiences.” I had a quite a bit of that, it is what lead me to the drugs. I just have not blogged about that…yet.

I’ve had a fair amount of therapy that was experiential-based and not talk therapy. But Feldenkrais can be one heck of an amplifier….

I hope you are doing well out there.

cheers – Ryan

By: kim

kim — Thu, 13 Sep 2012 02:21:40 +0000

Yo, Ryan……..no drugs here, but tons of shitty family abuse experiences and all out craziness. I’ve found in this work, the way to walk the discoveries I made in therapy, in a way that therapy could never ever in a kazillion years make happen. It’s one thing to sit and talk about something, it’s completely another to dissect that experience and your own behavior and learn what it is as a process and a pattern and then make changes to it. We’re all still in process, aren’t we? . . . I love this way of bringing this work to the public and prax affordably so that anyone can have access, minus all the hoopla and b.s. and obligations. Good luck to you in this new adventure. I have a feeling it will be very successful.

By: ryannagy

ryannagy — Fri, 24 Aug 2012 00:48:52 +0000

Helmut – Thank you very much for your comments. I often feel like I am writing alone into a void where no one can see or here. It is good to hear others out there. I hope we have a chance to meet in person and we continue the journey of sharing this work.

– Ryan

By: Helmut

Helmut — Sun, 19 Aug 2012 06:31:42 +0000

Thank you Ryan for this! Following your comments and your thoughts about Feldenkrais since beginning, I felt to have found one clear voice in all these undistinguished and frozen FK musings. Your great experience in the balancing act of life touched me. FK has always been an attitude to life for me, a way of thinking and a way of staying independent. To run a chance to deal with my strugglings personally, to have a hand rail of my own. And to be able then to pass it over to others, to give them a chance to find that same support. Moshe once stated, that he was the only one doing FK. We others have our own names to do something. He gave us fantastic tools for it. Regards, Helmut

By: ryannagy

ryannagy — Tue, 14 Aug 2012 16:10:50 +0000

In reply to Mary Morrison.

Hi Mary – Thanks for your comments! I suppose if everything in our life was easy and simple, we would not have come to the work. Though, I do wonder how we can get it to others who could use it…even though they might not think so…on the other hand perhaps it’s better to focus on people and markets that have a clear need.

I hope you are doing great out there!

– Ryan

By: Mary Morrison

Mary Morrison — Sat, 11 Aug 2012 22:14:33 +0000

Brilliant Ryan! And thanks for the life story. I did not know all of this about you. I came to Moshe’s work, not through drug addiction but through recovering from a traumatic childhood and I was also in the midst of a very dysfunctional and traumatic relationship as a result of my past. I always say this work saved my life! Or I saved my life through doing this work. I totally agree that it is possible for us to bring this work, at a reasonable price, to all people. That is why I offer a sliding scale and I have now begun doing skype lessons! Thank you once again for your honesty and dedication to offering up your work so others can benefit! Mary