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• Victoria II Training with Jeff Haller Segment 7, Day 1

Synopsis

Lesson Outline

Note: This detailed write-up of Jeff Haller’s lesson is included here with the explicit permission of Jeff Haller.
While standing notice your sensory bubble:

• How much space do you take in the room?
• Do you hear better to the right or left; up or down; forward or back?
• Do you experience light better to the right or left; up or down; forward or back?
• Do you sense the space around you better in front or behind; between or legs or on the outside of your legs?
• Would it be easier to turn to the right or left?

While lying on your back (feet standing if it is more comfortable):

• Sense your breath. If you were to come up to standing, which side would you roll to? If you were to roll to your stomach, which side would you roll to?
• Pelvic Floor: What happens to the pelvic floor as you breathe in? Does it expand or contract? As you breathe out?
• Exhale and wait. As you start the inhale, notice the first movement you can sense.
• Floating Ribs: For each breath, exhale and wait. As you start each inhale:
  • What is the movement of the floating ribs — toward the floor or away?
  • Place your hands on your floating ribs under your back. At the first moment of the inhale, does the pressure increase or decrease on your hands? Which side lifts first?
  • Lift your floating ribs slightly when you breathe in. Which direction does your pubic bone move?
  • Determine which side lifts more easily.
  • Lift your floating ribs more to the easy side.
  • Lift your floating ribs more to the hard side.
  • Alternate lifting the easier side and the harder side. Make the difference between amount your lift each side smaller and smaller until on each inhale both sides are lifted the same amount
• Rest. Sense differences
• Stand. Can you sense the movement of the breath in your stomach, back, and chest? Can you continue to sense it as you begin to walk around the room?
• Break

While lying on your back (feet standing if it is more comfortable):

• Sense your breath.
• Pelvic Floor: What happens to the pelvic floor as you breathe in? Does it expand or contract? As you breathe out?
• As you breathe in:
  • Lift your floating ribs. What direction does your sternum move?
  • Initiate the movement from your sternum.
  • While initiating with the sternum, is it easier to lift the left side or right side. Play with the side that lifts easier. Alternate lifting one side then the other while making the difference between the two sides smaller and smaller.
  • Alternate initiating the movement first from the floating ribs and then from the sternum
  • Combine into a single movement.
• Repeat the above step with each movement lower your floating ribs and sternum.
• As you breathe in, alternate lifting and lowering your floating ribs. When is your spine lengthening and shortening? When is your back widening and becoming more narrow?
• Repeat the above 3 steps, but do the movement on the exhale (instead of as you breathe in).
• Do seesaw breathing:
  • Notice the front of your torso under your skin.
  • Notice the back of your torso under your skin.
  • Do seesaw breathing diagonally (move air into your left shoulder and right hip; then move the air into your right shoulder and left hip).
• Ring breathing
  • As you breathe in, fill your belly in all directions (like a ring around you).
  • As you breathe in, have the breath fill your belly. Have the ring move up and through you expanding your lower chest, and upper chest.
  • As you breathe in, start the ring at your feet and have it move up and through you to your belly, chest, head, and above you.
• Stand. Sense your breath. Keep sense of breath as you begin to walk around the room.

Focus of Jeff’s Teaching

• Finding the breath globally (front, back, stomach ribs)
• Finding the internal expansion.

Related ATMs

See Theme Breathing:

• Amherst 1 – Week 2 – 06/19/80 PM1 – Lying on Stomach, Movements of Legs, Eyes and Head
• Amherst 1 – Week 2 – 06/20/80 AM1 – Eye Movements / Eye Movements and Rolling
• Amherst 1 – Week 4 – 06/30/80 Rolling to the right and left (#1)
• Amherst 1 – Week 4 – 06/30/80 Rolling to the right and left (#4)
• Amherst 1 – Week 4 – 07/01/80 Tilting the knees (part 1)
• Amherst 1 – Week 4 – 07/01/80 Tilting the knees (part 2)
• Amherst 1 – Week 8 – 07/29/80 Voice
• Amherst 1 – Week 8 – 07/31/80 AM1 Mobility of hip – hand under kneecap (part 1)
• Amherst 1 – Week 1 – 06/10/80 AM1 – Flexing the upper body, Elbow to the knee
• Amherst 2 – Week 3 – 06/25/81 AM1 Body like a wave / Caterpillar wave
• ATM Basic Series – 3. Adapt Your Breathing to Your Needs
• ATM Book Lesson 4 – Differentiation of Parts and Functions in Breathing
• AY005 Equalizing the nostrils
• AY017 Breathing
• AY021 Contracting the abdomen while exhaling
• AY023 Palate mouth, and teeth
• AY028 Legs crossed and expanding chest and abdomen
• AY029 Minimal lifting
• AY035 Stomach and chest first
• AY126 The mouth and head cavity
• AY172 Stopping the Breath
• AY177 Making the spine flexible and integrating it
• AY179 Breathing (To weld by breathing)
• AY180 Breathing rhythmically #1
• AY185 Lying on the Feet # 3 and breathing rhythmically #2
• AY186 Breathing rhythmically #3 (The left side)
• AY187 Breathing rhythmically #4 (On both sides)
• AY188 Twisting the spine and Breathing rhythmically #5
• AY189 Directed breathing (Intentional breathing) (Breathing rhythmically #6)
• AY191 Pressing to the floor and breathing (Breathing rhythmically #7)
• AY201 Gluing in the Lungs Part 1
• AY202 Gluing in the lungs, #2
• AY203 Gluing in the lungs, #3
• AY204 Gluing in the lungs, #4 (Gluing and bending the back)
• AY217 On the side, the sternum becoming flexible
• AY218 On the side, bending and twisting the chest and spine
• AY230 Self hug the arms rolling the upper and lower girdle, on the back and abdomen
• AY233 With the legs joined lying on the floor
• AY238 Standing backward, part 2
• AY266 Crossing knees and coordinated eye movements
• AY274 Introduction to Walking (1)
• AY275 Introduction to Walking 2, Continuation
• AY280 On hands and shoulders
• AY282 Basis of hopping, continuation [2]
• AY283 Continuation on one leg
• AY284 Slow improvement
• AY289 Standing on one leg with movements
• AY299 Distinction of the movement underneath the bellybutton in the breathing during oscillations
• AY317 Touching the floor in standing
• AY336 Pushing the hip backward on both sides
• AY351 Swinging the legs on the side
• AY359 Tanden with bending the knees
• AY407 Heel in the hand
• AY416 Protruding the abdomen
• AY435 Alternately Stomach up/down in the Breathing
• AY447 Opposition on the side
• AY453 Eyes and lines
• AY460 Separation in lying with Saika
• AY462 Separating the left limbs in sitting
• AY470 Continuation with standing leg on leg
• AY480 Bending movements of the head on a chair
• Berkeley 1973 – 3. Extension 6/19 AM
• E03 Tilting Crossed Legs
• Franz Wurm, Der aufrechte Gang – Series 1 – 9. Wippe
• Haller – Breathing, expanding your internal balloon
• IDF17 – Breathing and movements of the feet
• LT05 Flexors
• LT18 Breathing
• MG77 #09 – Differentiating movements of leg to roll forward and backward
• MG78 #01 – Coordinating flexors and extensors
• MM11 Rocking the Pelvis
• Rotterdam 1976 – Tape 7 – See Saw Breathing
• SF1 – Week 3 – 1 July 1975, AM1 – A theoretical lesson on the physiology of breathing
• SF1 – Week 3 – 1 July 1975, AM2 – Paradoxical breathing
• SF1 – Week 3 – 1 July 1975, PM – A short breathing lesson related to the lecture
• SF2 – Week 06 – 21 July 1976, pm: Lengthening the Arms Overhead with Fingers Interlaced
• SF2 – Week 10 – 16 August 1976: Do You Breathe In or Out?
• SF2 – Week 10 – 17 August 1976: Do You Breathe In or Out? continued
• SF2 – Week 10 – 18 August 1976: Moving the Body Relative to the Head
• SF2 – Week 10 – 19 August 1976: Ways of Holding the Head and Turning It, and Moving the Body Relative to the Head, continued
• SF3 – Day 12/B – 30 June 1977 – Oscillating pelvis with heels and feet
• SF3 – Day 26 – 27 July 1977: Prone, tilting pelvis, relationship of breath and movement to back and ribs. Continues into kneeling on all fours.
• SF3 – Day 29 – 2 August 1977: Prone: lifting hips, shoulders, middle ribs; effects on breathing. Lines of stress from heel to hand.
• SF3 – Day 40 – 22 August: Movements of hands and feet followed with eyes. Diagonal connections.
• SFEC Public Workshop – Vol. 2 – 1. Better Breathing
• Toronto 1980 – DAY3-2 – Head through the gate, see-saw breathing
• Vancouver – Hotel Vancouver – 3. Perfecting the pelvic clock/Breathing Out and Swallowing/Scan, 10AUG73 Pt. 2
• Vancouver – Hotel Vancouver – 4. Flexion (Flexor), 11AUG73

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