everything wrote:I don't get why anyone who knows a lot about "internal" would need his "method" though. Other than an equally strange set of vocabulary that is totally different than the weird terms in IMA, what is in his "method" that internal folks might not know?
Short answer: The Feldenkrais Method is subtle enough in approach and structure that it's much easier to refine awareness/function via the method at any level than through standard IMA practice.
Longer answer: The Feldenkrais Method is fundamentally about learning-- although it has tremendous benefit and application to IMA, that's really more of a side-effect, or, put another way, the learning how to move is learning for it's own sake, how one chooses to apply it is up to them. The method happens to focus on movement because if you're alive you have a body that moves, so movement is the universal common denominator, independent of background, language, or where one begins the process.
In that respect, the Feldenkrais Method transcends IMA. With a deep enough grasp of the method, one could rather easily create/replicate any given IMA, however, without a significant intellectual/creative leap, one would never create the Feldenkrais Method out of IMA.
