Feldenkrais spoke a great deal about movement, aggression and "survivability." As a Jew who lived through WW2 and saw most of his family destroyed by a pogrom in the Ukraine, and as a martial artist, one can see (or at least imagine) how much both violence and self-protection played a part in his life and the development of his ideas. For that reason, I am rarely surprised these days when I read a Feldenkrais quote, like the one below from Alexander Yanai 505:
Nature prepares the baby for a life of defense and attack, for everything that is necessary so it would be able to survive without the police defending him, or the army defending him, because it is not always possible to depend on those brave people who are defending him. Each person needs to know how to defend himself. The world is built like this.
I personally do not look at a baby or child and think how "nature prepares the baby for a life of defense and attack." Nature prepares a baby for survival and that includes the connection, emotion, cognition, learning and in the main: adaptation.
