Source
- Alexander Yanai Volume 11
- Reel 34, Track 2, Lesson 3
- Duration of the recording: unknown
- According to the german edition this lesson is not on the hebrew CD’s.
Synopsis
- Lying face down, lifting and turning the head upwards and backwards, differentiating the eyes from the movement of the head.
Lesson Outline
- Lie face down, legs spread a bit, stand hands near shoulders, elbows in the air.
- Eyes closed, look upwards (towards forehead).
- Lift head a bit (easy movements) and look down (to the floor). Then alternate – lift head and look down, lower head and look up.
- Place forehead on floor and look up and down – quick movements.
- Lift head a bit and do the same.
- Lie face down, legs spread, pull right knee in direction of stomach (out to the side), hands by shoulders, elbows in the air.
- Extend right leg and bring it back (sliding knee on floor).
- Continue extending right leg and when you bring it back lift and turn the head and look at right knee. Easy, slow.
- Do the same on the other side (bend left leg and bring left knee close to stomach).
- Extend and bend left leg, lift and turn head when knee bends and look at the knee.
- Hold knee bend and head turned to the left knee (with eyes closed) – move eyes right and left.
- Lie face down, legs straight, arms behind back (on the lower back), hold wrists – or if you can, hold with right hand left elbow, left hand right elbow.
- Lift the right leg a bit from floor (the entire leg) – easy movements.
- Turn the head to the left and look over the left shoulder at the right heel – body rolls to the right a bit, left leg may bend in the knee.
- Stay looking at the right heel and turn eyes to the right and to the left.
- Lie face down, lift left leg and look over right shoulder to the left heel (bend right knee if you need).
- Stay looking to the left heel and turn eyes to the right and to the left.
- Stay face down, bring hands close to shoulders, elbows in the air. Lift head and look down, lower head and look up.
- Lift head, stay there and move eyes up and down quickly.
- Head on floor (forehead) and move eyes right and left, quickly.
- ONLY IN THINKING: lift both legs from the floor.
- Go on thinking that you lift legs from the floor and do lift the head from the floor with eyes going up.
- On the back, bend knees, stand feet, interlace fingers and place behind head.
- Lift head with the help of the hands.
- Lift head and direct right elbow to left knee, then left elbow to right knee.
- IN THINKING: direct both elbows to both knees.
- Take hold with right hand right knee and with left hand left knee (from outside), push knees so feet come closer to the floor – alternate right, left.
- Lie face down, both arms/hands behind lower back (as before).
- Lift head and look to the left side to see the right heel and then to the right side to see the left heel, body rolls a bit. Help with the legs, allow the knees to bend.
- Lie face down, hands stand close to the shoulders, elbows in the air. ONLY THINKING: lift both knees.
- Lift head and turn it right and left – looking at the heels (allow elbows to move).
- Legs straight, lift head and look left and right – seeing heels. Direct the movement with the eyes.
- Lift head, move eyes down when head lifts and move them up when head goes down. Quickly.
- Lie face down, hands by shoulders, elbows in the air, turn head left – right ear on floor.
- Lift the head from the floor, stay there – move chin to the left shoulder and the back of the head to the right shoulder (kind of pecking movement).
- Same on the other side (head looks right).
- Bend knees, feet in the air, turn head once left and once right try to see the heels.
- Lift head in the middle, stay there, look up and down.
- Turn head left and move eyes to the right and vice versa, let the body roll easily.
- Stand up and walk.
Focus of the teaching
- In addition to the movements, what theme or ideas did the teacher focus on
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- Theme Extensor Lesson
- Tag Fast-movements
- Tag Seeing-the-Heels
- Tag Imagining
- Tag Knee-pulls-arm
- Tag Pecking
- Tag Elbow-to-knee
- Tag Eye-differentiation
- Tag One-leg-bent-up-towards-stomach-prone
- Tag Floating-ribs
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