The fabulous performance of athletes during the Winter Olympics demonstrates the constant advance of physical skills and human movement potential. As Michael Murphy, co-founder of the Esalen Institute, wrote, “The worlds of physical adventure and sport dramatize our capacity for self-exceeding.”
According to Moshe Feldenkrais, once one man was able to run a mile in four minutes, it was only a matter of time before more people could do the same. Indeed, the capacity of athletes to keep breaking records seems almost infinite.
Is human physical capacity limitless? Or is there a limit, even a power to be found in understanding those limits? Find out more in the next blogs.