- Heinrich Jacoby
Heinrich Jacoby (1889–1964), originally a musician, was a German educator whose teaching was based on developing sensitivity and awareness. A great role in his researches played the collaboration with the colleague
Elsa Gindler , whom he met in 1924 inBerlin . With the advent ofnazism in 1933 Jacoby was forced to leaveGermany , but he continued his work inSwitzerland .Moshe Feldenkrais , who was trained as an engineer and physicist, told of being quite surprised when Jacoby taught him how to draw credibly in just a few minutes. Jacoby and Feldenkrais were among a small group of European 20th Century innovators who emphasized the "self" in self-development, so that as in the zen inspired arts such as archery or judo or even flower arranging a skill was not an end in itself. Practicing a skill was a path to greater awareness.The work of Heinrich Jacoby was an important influence to body psychotherapy through the workshops that
Charlotte Selver , student ofElsa Gindler , gave to major body psychotherapists at theEsalen Institute in the 1960s.External links
* [http://www.jgstiftung.de/jacoby/ Heinrich Jacoby (1889-1964)] a short biography, in German
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