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On the distribution of AY lessons

Submitted by Feldenkrais truth on October 28, 2009 - 1:23am.

I wish to mention that the order of the written english AY collection doesn't suit to the hebrew mpeg3 collection I have got from Shoula from Isreal.

For example, the first audio mpeg3 lesson of the AY in hebrew is lying on one's back while the english written collection begins with a sitting lesson.

Almost no audio lesson does correspond in number to the written lesson in english (with the same number).

Many of the lessons I now them from the seventeeth as I have done them in AY street and which could be heard very clearly are (intentionally or not?) copied very overmodulated, so that sometimes it is realy unpleasant to hear to or even impossible to understand what Moshe says. I suppose that the responsible for the quality of the distribution of Moshe's material wanted to compete on the auditive level in some kind with the much to often unclear english translation from hebrew of these lessons. . .

One of the proves that the acoustic unclarity origins not in the original reels, but from the overmodulation during the copying process of the original reels is the fact that during THE ONE AND THE SAME LESSON there are places without overmodulation with the best sound possible, and other key places where Moshe gives instructions concerning the starting posture of a movement (for example)the overmoduulation reapears. Without knowing which is the starting posture of the movement or the movement itself any further comment or instruction concerning the movement spoken about is just useless because one misses the context.

Sometimes the beginnig of lessons are completely omitted, the beginning of which I know from the AY groups that originally existed. Luckily I have an integral copy of many of those fragmentated lessons.

The number of the AY lessons of the hebrew audio mpeg3 collection is 559 while the english translation has only 550. I didn't have yet the necessary time to see which are the nine AY lessons which the distributors of the hebrew collection forgot to omit from the collection. . .

On the back of the hardcover of the hebrew version of Awareness through Movement lBook, published in 1969!! Moshe writes that the twelf exemplary lessons are chosen out of more the thousand he created untill that time.

As I frequented the AY groups from Spetember 1972 to 1982 Moshe recorded almost every friday a new lesson.

Where is the rest of those masterpiece lessons? By Anat? Or by Mr. Wadler? Or by other senior or not senior traieners who got in one or another way access to the recordings of Moshe after his death?

I have to make a huge compliment to the PageMaker(s) of this site. One can feel by re-editting a text or by looking throught the page of IFF that much Feldenkrais thinking stays behind the structure and also functioning of the page.