Source
- Alexander Yanai, Vol 3 #112
- Reel 9, Track 1, Lesson 3
Synopsis
- imagining a plane dividing the body in half and moving along that plane
Lesson Outline
- Imagine a ball on the bridge of your nose, between your eyes
- slowly move the ball up and down, drawing a line along your middle
- increase the range of the ball, from top of head to bottom of torso
- ball goes between your legs to your buttocks, and up your spine
- eventually the ball goes in a complete circle
- bounce the ball between the top line and the bottom thin, creating a plane
- extend the plane outside of your body, to the floor below, and towards the ceiling
- raise your arms to ceiling palms on the plane, touching palms as the plane in very thin
- move arms down towards pelvis and up above the head along the plane, together and separately
- lift head keeping the plane in the middle
Focus of Moshe’s Teaching
- discovery where your perceived midline differs from the “real” midline
Related ATMs
- Tag Imagining
Plane through the body:
The line of a ball that rolls:
- ATM 11 Becoming Aware of Parts of Which We Are Not Conscious
- AY303 A lecture/lesson: Self-image lecture, the line of a ball that rolls
- AY305 The line of effort in the back in lifting
- AY306 The line of stress in the stomach and the chest
- AY307 The line of effort in lying on the back
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