David Kaetz MAKING CONNECTIONS Roots & Resonance in the Life and Teachings of Moshe Feldenkrais Second,E xpanded Edition Making Connections Roots and Resonance in the Life and Teachings of Moshe Feldenkrais -2 - Making Connections Roots and Resonance in the Life and Teachings of Moshe Feldenkrais David Kaetz River Centre Publishing Hornby Island , Canada -3 - Copyright© 2007 by David Kaetz All rights reserved. ISBN 978-0-9784014-2-9 Second Edition, first printing© July, 2014 Printed in Canada. For information and orders: www.davidkaetz.com Feldenkrais®, Feldenkrais®M ethod, Awareness Through Movemen t®, and Functional Integration ® are registered service marks in Canada of the Feldenkrais Guild™ of orth America. Cover photos by David Kaetz (Sioux, France). -4 - Acknowledgement s My thanks to the following (and many others) for their invalua ble help in this project: Ruthy Alon, Carolyn Bateman, Elizabeth Beringer, Donna Blank, Mischul Brownstone, Russell Delman, Joelle Donnerer, Hana Elter, Jeff Haller, Omri Hason, Amos Hetz, Faith Jones, Deborah Kaetz, Dovid Kaplan, Rabbi Meir Kaplan, Werner Kraus, Amie Lade, June La Pointe, Margo Mcloughlin, Alan Morinis, Michele Ofir, Robbie Ofir, Arielle Silice Palucci, Myriam Pfeffer, the late Mark Reese, Paul Rubin, Roger Russell, Rabbi Nachum Sasonkin, Rabbi Zalman Schachter -Shalomi, Ulla Schlafke, Andrew Schloss, Chava Shelhav, Rabbi Daniel Siegel, Elinor Silverstein, Anna Jacobs Singer, Sid Tafler, Anna Triebel Thome, Blandine Wong, Alicia Wilkes, David Zemach-Bersin, Feldenkrais®E ducational Foundation of North America (FEFNA), Feldenkrais Guild™ of North America (FGNA), Feldenkrais Ver- band Deutschland (FVD), International Feldenkrais Federation (IFF), teachers, students and colleagues of the Feldenkrais Method. And, for a lifetime of passionate inquiry: Dr. Moshe-Pinchas Feldenkrais (1904-1984) ~"t. - 5 - -6 - Whosoever reports a thing in the name of him that said it brings deliverance into the world. Pirkei Avot, 6:6. (Talmud) - 7 - -8 -