Amherst 1 – Week 2/3 – 4 points personal

Source

• Amherst Year 1
• June 18, PM2; June 19 PM2; June 23 PM1, P2; June 24, AM1
• DVD 6-7-8; VHS 15, 17, 19-21

Synopsis

• This series of lessons in working on four

Lesson Outline

• June 18, PM2, 14 min., audio only:
  • Stand: letting knees bend, reach down to touch floor with R hand (palm). Where? Explore all over. Including between the legs.
  • Then L hand.
  • Then both.
  • Then stay on four points: lift L hand and R leg. Do you put them down in the same place?
  • Then lift both hands.
  • Then both feet. Then alternate: both hands, both feet.
  • Various combinations.
• June 19 PM2, 6 and 2 min. ATM without “Talk – Three Ways of Crawling”, audio only:
  • On four points, like you’re harvesting with a scythe–“hold” with one hand and cut with the other.
  • Walk on four points. What order?
  • Much discussion of different ways of crawling, intelligent crawling (vs. educated); use of the flexors and extensors; lifting the head to see where you’re going.
• June 23 AM2 Standing and touching floor with left hand, 23 min., audio only
  • Stand: letting knees bend, reach down to touch floor with l hand (palm). Where? Explore all over. Including between the legs.
  • Demonstration: protruding the abdomen and anus backward
  • Rolling a ball with right hand, walking
  • Rolling a ball with left hand, walking

 

• June 23 PM1, 42 min. (There is intermittent video with continuous audio throughout the afternoon.)
  • Lifting & lowering head while on four points, and the relationship to the back and abdomen.
  • Lifting diagonals and sides; each leg. When you put it down every time, place it in a better place.
  • Lift L foot, and sit to look R, placing L knee through the space between R foot and R hand (R knee, R thigh lies on floor). (Not lifting hands.)
  • [Lots of clarification and precision of directions, getting everyone in line…]
  • Other side. Alternating.
• June 23 PM2, 32 min. (There is intermittent video with continuous audio throughout the afternoon.)
  • Lift L foot and come to sit, and then lie back. (Have to stagger as they come to lying 90 degrees from where they were facing.)
  • Lift legs, and swing to come up (put hands on the R).
• June 24 AM1, 42 min.
  • Standing, and rehearse in the mind coming to sit turned to the L, and lying.
  • Then sitting to the L, come up to four points and through to sit to the R. Back and forth. Including to lying (swinging the legs). The feet, the hands don’t leave their spots.
  • You can do this barely lifting the pelvis if the neck is free.
  • Then facing the back of the room, and you end up turned 180 degrees, facing the front (L leg crossed in front).
  • Then (after much discussion of power and control of pelvis), go from side to side, lying down, with legs together, sliding the pelvis. (Something about a French skiier.)

Focus of Moshe’s Teaching

• Like your fingerprint, the four points where your hands and feet stand are individual to you–your frame and organization of your muscles. From the right place you can move anywhere quickly.
• Why we don’t work in standing. So much to manage; it does not become elegant quickly.
• If the pelvis is organized, the limbs organize themselves. Submarine analogy: the teleceptors on the periscope, and the pelvis sunk below the ocean–guiding, giving stability. The periscope floats on top of the spine. Head free: pelvis maximum power.

Related ATMs

• Theme Four Cardinal Points
• Tag Anus-backward
• Tag Protruding-abdomen
• Tag Abdominal-muscles
• Tag Imagining
• Tag Fast-movements
• Tag Coming-to-sit
• Tag Not-losing-front
• Tag Coming-to-stand
• Tag Avoiding-seriousness
• Tag Supine-to-stand
• Tag Group-movement
• Tag On-hands-and-feet
• Tag Neck-freedom
• Tag Stop-movement
• Tag Gait
• Tag Touching-floor-in-standing
• Tag exploring-floor-with-hands

 

  Cutting wheat:

Walking on hands and feet:

• Amherst 1 – Week 6 – 07/18/80 AM2 Crossing knees – crawling (part 1)
• MM04 Crawling and Walking

Walking backward on hands and feet:

• Amherst 1 – Week 6 – 07/18/80 AM2 Crossing knees – crawling (part 1)
• MM04 Crawling and Walking

Rolling a ball with one hand, walking:

• AY317 Touching the floor in standing

Standing to supine:

• Amherst 1 – Week 1 – 06/10/80 PM2 – Flexors and rolling/Flexing the Upper Body, Elbow to the Knee (Continued)
• Amherst 1 – Week 4 – 06/30/80 Rolling to the right and left (#3)
• Amherst 1 – Week 5 – 07/07/80 Rolling from sitting (part 2)
• Amherst 2 – Week 8 – 07/27/81 AM1 Rolling Forward, Flip Heels to Squat
• SF3 – Day 24 – 25 July 1977: On back. Right leg standing outside of left leg. Coming to standing.
• SF3 – Day 25 – 26 July 1977: Continue with one leg crossed and standing over other. Crossing and bending both legs and bringing knees to floor

Moment of inertia:

• Amherst 1 – Week 1 – 06/12/80 PM1 – Minimal eye movements (part 2)
• Amherst 1 – Week 6 – 07/18/80 AM2 Crossing knees – crawling (part 1)
• Amherst 2 – Week 8 – 07/30/81 AM1 Gravity and FI (Questions from Students included)
• SF1 – Week 5 – 15 July 1975: Lying on Back to Standing
• SF1 – Week 5 – 16 July 1975: Lying on Back to Standing, continued
• SF1 – Week 7 – 30 July 1975: Preparation for Judo Roll

Teleceptors:

• Amherst 1 – Week 1 – 06/12/80 PM1 – Minimal eye movements (part 2)
• Amherst 1 – Week 5 – 07/07/80 – 07/09/80 Rolling the Pelvis (Part 1 – 5)
• Amherst 1 – Week 6 – 07/17/80 AM Rotation of head and teleceptors
• Amherst 2 – Week 1 – 06/10/81 AM2 Sitting, Shoulder Forward to Ear
• Amherst 2 – Week 2 – 06/16/81 AM1 Bring Right Foot to Left Hand / Walk Right Foot Around Left Knee
• New York Quest – DAY2 – PM1 – Rolling from sitting to lying and back again
• New York Quest – DAY5 – PM3 – Lecture: Learning is doing things in a different way. Even in simple things we have lost contact with ourselves
• SF3 – Day 39 – 18 August 1977: Rolling head on back, increasing ease and freedom of rolling as other movements are added

 

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