NY Quest – DAY2 – PM1 – The bell hand: soft opening and closing movements of the hand

Source

• 1981 New York Quest Workshop
• Duration of the recording: 54 min.
• The beginning of the lesson is missing.

Synopsis

• Lying on side, top foot stands with knee tilting. Then top hand circles and flexes on stomach, top leg balances on bottom leg.

Lesson Outline

• On left side, stand R foot, tilt knee in and out. Move R foot further back several times.
• Balance R shin on L leg. Seesaw R leg.
• Place R hand on stomach, let breath circle hand. Add finger flexing.
• R shin on L leg, seesaw leg as flex R fingers and circle R hand.
• Stand R foot again. Tilt knee: how is it now?
• Bring R hand to stomach again, flexing and circling. Lift R foot off floor, tilt knee in and out.
• Place R hand in front of chest, fingers forward. R leg rests on floor behind L leg.
  Slide R hand forward.
  Slide R knee forward.
  Combine hand and knee movement.
  Move hand and knee opposite to each other.
  Slide hand and knee up and down. In same direction & opposite to each other.
  Circle R knee. Add hand circling. Change direction of hand. Change again.
• Hand to stomach again, flex and circle: lighter?

Focus of Moshe’s Teaching

• Finding your own rhythm for moving
• Reducing movement effort

Related ATMs

• Amherst Year 2 (1981) -Week 1
  • 06/08/81 ATM: Flexing of right palm / Flex hand to stand
  • 06/09/81 ATM: Flexing of right palm / Press floor to lift knee
  • 06/09/81 Prone to Standing While Flexing Right Hand / Bell Hand in Hair
  • 06/10/81 ATM: Flexing hands and feet together / Flex fingers and toes
  • 06/10/81 On back flexing torso / Bell crawl
  • 06/11/81 ATM: Swimming crawl / Bell hand, think toes
  • 06/11/81 ATM: Swimming crawl / Bell hand, think toes (cont.)
• Tag unilateral

Bell hand:

• Amherst 2 – Week 1 – 06/09/81 Prone to Standing While Flexing Right Hand / Bell Hand in Hair
• Amherst 2 – Week 1 – 06/10/81 Bell crawl
• Amherst 2 – Week 1 – 06/11/81 AM1 Swimming crawl / Bell hand, think toes
• Amherst 2 – Week 1 – 06/11/81 AM2 Swimming crawl / Bell hand, think toes (continued)
• Amherst 2 – Week 3 – 06/25/81 PM Rhiannon’s lesson – exploring eyebrows and bridge of nose / Exploring eye structure in relationship to the spine
• SF Quest – The bell hand: soft opening and closing movements of the hand

Resources

• Recorded by John Quinn, GCFP, at 2006 FGNA Conference in Omega, NY for openatm.org.
  • This lesson is a personal interpretation of Moshe’s “Bell Hand” lesson originally presented at the 1981 San Francisco Quest Workshop.

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• This feels like two different lessons to me: am teaching it again to see if it becomes clearer this time around, as I don’t see one over-arching theme.– angela.sparklehouse Jan 25, 2016
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