Thank you Tommy for an extraordinary week of learning and growth. I look forward to watching the integration and seeing where this now leads. I particularly appreciate the thought of seeing the beauty in the person and if we all went through life with this thought what a different world we would live in.
I have just seen this quote from Krishnamurti and am struck by its relevance to your view of Alexander work:
Man cannot come to truth through any organization, through any creed, through any dogma, priest or ritual, not through any philosophic knowledge or psychological technique. He has to find it through the mirror of relationship, through the understanding of the contents of his own mind, through observation and not through intellectual analysis or introspective dissection. j. krishnamurti
Thank you,
Kit Racette
Ease of Being – Reflections on Tommy Thompson’s Approach
Reprinted from: NeVLAT-news May 22, 2009 article written by Rebecca Gwynn-Jones after the Amsterdam workshop
What I liked in Lugano was Tommy’s focus on reconnection with the self, and on the ease of being that comes from living in greater harmony with our design as human beings and with our own individuality. Connection and relationship are for him essential aspects of being human and therefore essential to how we practice and teach FM’s technique for reclaiming our ‘supreme inheritance.’ I noticed that when he had his hands on someone they would light up and expand from within, I can only say, as if filled with love! Doing one of his hands on exercises with another teacher, we both felt a deep sense of connection, like we were dancing together, when it was just in and out of the chair as usual! More…
Tommy’s Teaching
Reprinted from: http://jeremychance.blogspot.com/2009/05/tommys-teaching.html May 11, 2009 by Jeremy Chance after the Japan workshop.
“I will never try to know you, I will forever try to see you.”
Writing now after witnessing the final workshop of Tommy Thompson in Japan, and hugely impressed by the way Tommy has given a voice to Alexander’s discoveries in a way that totally accords with the Buddhist view of Self – the lack of anything inherently existing from it’s own side. In my comments below, I may be misrepresenting Tommy’s viewpoint, so please hold the idea that these are my impressions of Tommy’s ideas. More…
