These are my old shoes not used for many years. Looking at them “with the Feldenkrais eye” it’s clear how much the right ankle was out of alignment due to a teenage trauma. I recall an osteopath saying that since it’s an old trauma, nothing could be done because it impacted my entire organisation all the way to the head: hips, pelvis, rib cage, neck, everything.
The osteopath was quite right about the systemic impact, but they were wrong about ‘nothing could be done’. Over the course of years this has improved significantly, several times I went through this feeling that my shoes were not mine, they felt like second-hand ones worn by someone else. This attested to the change in the shape of the feet and weight distribution. Now with the Feldenkrais awareness and knowledge I can trace exact changes that occurred all the way to the head.
I don’t expect the entire world to be too interested in my right ankle. The point is that systemic changes in organisation are feasible even with regards to 30+ years old trauma when a body’s “temporary solution” to moving without pain became a life-long movement pattern and indeed a part of personality.
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