In this wonderfully optimistic interview, Designer Bruce Mau talks about the failures of approaching problems and solutions as singular tasks. The movement equivalent of this way of thinking is to strengthen a weak shoulder or to stretch a tight one. This may lead to temporary change, but it doesn’t change how the shoulder functions.

The spiral is a fitting image for the process of Awareness Through Movement. You revisit some actions and questions many times. But each time, you’re in a different physical, mental, or emotional place so you find something different: a connection or a sensation you hadn’t noticed before. I hear evidence of the spiral when someone says, “Today for the first time, I….” what follows is usually a word like “felt,” “understood,” “found.”