personally trained by Feldenkrais (photo enclosed, do not bend)

I was having a WhatsApp conversation with a friend of mine recently and we were both giggling like kids about the tendency for some people in the Feldenkrais world to build their "brand" around a connection (real or imagined!) to Moshe Feldenkrais.

You will often see people saying things such as:

"I was personally trained by Moshe Feldenkrais"

"I was a close colleague of Dr. Feldenkrais"

Recently, I read an interview with Jerry Karzen - one of Moshe's students - where he reaches for the magic word. The "friend" label, as in,

"Well, you could say we were friends."

In different websites and interview Karzen talks about being Moshe's "traveling companion" and personal secretary...and now friend. Why?? Because in the Feldenkrais world, ‘friend of Moshe’ can function like a professional degree. Because his relationship to Moshe was and is his only professional credential.

But I digress!

Let's get back to personally trained by Moshe: My friend, who has a slightly diabolical mind like mine - sent me a picture from the Feldenkrais Amherst training that started in 1980. It was a training with 253 people in a gymnasium.

And as we were talking about a particular Feldenkrais trainer, my friend wrote about the picture, "look! There he is, being personally trained by Moshe! Can't you see him?"

And I have to admit, that I couldn'