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The Balance Master Series For Elder Citizens

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Feldenkrais Practitioners Annie Cosgrove and Richard Yin created this program in 1999.   They used the lessons to research the effect of Feldenkrais Awareness Through Movement lessons on elderly citizens.  With 32 lessons this is a comprehensive program.
Participants were independent, community living individuals aged 65 to 85.  While many had previous falls, some sustaining fractures of the wrist or ribs, none was using a walking aid.  They were randomly assigned to one of three groups for 16 weeks.  So they were given “no treatment”, Tai Chi or Feldenkrais.
Results of the clinical assessment showed the Feldenkrais group fared the best.  They had statistically significant improvements in functional activity indices and functional balance testing.   A subgroup of women fearful of falling were assessed.  This group had a significant decline in their fears.

Lessons

1. Transferring Weight Left and Right While Sitting 
2. Turning in Sitting
3. Sit to Stand #1 (incomplete)
4. Sit to Stand #2
5. Waking Up Your Balance Sensors  (Ankles & Their Relationships)
6. Standing And Walking
7. Hands To Feet (The Pantyhose Lesson)
8. Coming to Kneeling
9. Finding Your Feet #1
10. A Lesson on Four Points
11. Pelvic Clock #1
12. Pelvic Clock #2 (With a Detour Via Rotation)
13. Mostly Flexion
14. More Clocks … (Via Arm Reach And Roll)
15. Infinite Clocks (Not Taped)
16. Picking Up Your Feet Through Side Bending
17. More Side Bending, then Sit to Stand #3 
18. Heads May Roll
19. Folding Ankles, Beginning Stairs
20. Stairs, Steps, Ups And Downs
21. Lesson #1Feldenkrais® ATM For The Elder Citizen (Not Taped)
22. Balancing With Your Pelvis
23. Sideways Sliding 
24. Knees Turning The Spine (Not Taped, Sketch Of Lesson Only)
25. Friendly Chair and Friendly Floor
26. Finding Your Feet #2
27. Dancing With The Wall
28. Dancing With The Wall #2 (Not Taped)
29. Finding The Hips For Better Balance
30. Dem Bones
31. Side To Side
32. Grand Finale

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