Season’s Geetings
We wish you and all your loved ones
a very
merry and peaceful Christmas,
a happy Hanukkah
and all
the best for the new year 2026.
Your Board
(Martina, Eytan and Therese) and Edith
Looking back on 2025, it was a very intense and instructive year. Everything we set out to do came to true.
We cannot predict the future, nor is it solely in our hands. But with all of your help, we can still achieve a great deal with this wonderful work.
We look forward to the coming year with great expectations:
- Our new website will launch in January.
- A series of training courses will be offered, which will be listed on our new homepage.
- Our live meeting in Birach is scheduled for April 23 to April 26, 2026.
- We kindly ask you to save the date for the general meeting in Birach on April 25, 2026.
- Every first Saturday of the month, a Zoom meeting is held for those interested in Feldenkrais, where various topics are discussed and communicated. Everyone is welcome to participate in this exchange and actively contribute.
For the end of the year and for taking the next step into the new year, we would like to share a poem with you.
Many people are probably already familiar with this poem, but it is always nice to read these words in peace and quiet, so that you can remember them from time to time as time goes by:
The art of small steps
by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
I do not ask for miracles and visions, Lord, but for the strength to face everyday life. Teach me the art of small steps.
Make me resourceful and inventive, so that I can note down my insights and experiences in a timely manner amidst the daily hustle and bustle, especially those that particularly affect and concern me.
Make me confident in managing my time effectively. Grant me the sensitivity to discern what is of primary importance and what is secondary.
I ask for strength, discipline, and moderation, so that I do not drift through life, but rather organize my daily routine sensibly, pay attention to rays of hope and highlights, and at least occasionally find time for cultural enjoyment.
Let me recognize that daydreaming does not help, neither about the past nor about the future. Help me to do the next thing as well as possible and to recognize the present moment as the most important. Protect me from the naive belief that everything in life should go smoothly. Grant me the sober realization that difficulties, defeats, failures, and setbacks are a natural part of life, through which we grow and mature.
Remind me that the heart often rebels against reason. Send me someone at the right moment who has the courage to tell me the truth in love. I want to always let you and others speak freely. You don’t tell yourself the truth – it is told to you.
I know that many problems are solved by doing nothing. Grant me the patience to wait.
You know how much we need friendship. Grant that I may be equal to this most beautiful, most difficult, most risky, and most delicate business in life. Give me the necessary imagination to deliver a parcel of kindness—with or without words—at the right moment and in the right place. Make me a person who is like a ship with a deep draft, so that I may reach even those who are below.
Protect me from the fear that I might miss out on life. Do not give me what I want, but what I need. Teach me the art of small steps!
Amen.
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry