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Synopsis
- On hands and knees,moving towards sitting the heels. Knees wide and sliding foot to opposite knee to sit, alternating eyes/head looking up and eyes/head looking down, hands on floor. And then “crawling” by crossing one leg through in front of the other, or sliding it back behind the other. Reducing need for hands in locomotion on knees.
Lesson Outline
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Focus of Moshe’s Teaching
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- “There are other means of locomotion that are faster, but there are no other means of locomotion that make the hips and the hips joints and the pelvis as mobile as this one, and this also softens the spine. When you do this movement, the spine, from the pelvis to the neck, is twisting in every movement, bending also, and making the spine more flexible.” MF
Related ATMs
- 25 Lessons from Eshkol-Wachman Movement Notation – Lesson 13
- Amherst 1 – Week 6 – 07/18/80 AM2 Crossing knees – crawling (part 1)
- AY000.2 Crossed knees (not in IFF edition)
- AY109 Lowering the pelvis to sitting
- AY225 Standing on the knees
- AY353 Wiggle the knees
- AY529 Knees crossed having the pelvis lie right and left
- E27 Primitive Locomotion – Coordinating the Locomotive Joints (Recordings)
- Franz Wurm, Der aufrechte Gang – Series 2 – 12. Kniegang
- IDF13 Knees crossed
- LT12 On all 4s to sitting
- SF2 – Week 04 – 7 July 1976, am1: Pulling the Feet with the Knees Crossed
- SF2 – Week 04 – 7 July 1976, am3: Pulling the Feet with the Knees Crossed continued
- SF2 – Week 04 – 7 July 1976, pm: Pulling the Feet with the Knees Crossed continued into Cross-Crawling
- SFEC Notes – 11. Sitting on heels “catback” (July 19)
- SFEC Public Workshop – Vol. 2 – 10. Flexible knees
- Toronto 1980 – DAY5-1 – Sitting between the heels
- Toronto 1980 – DAY5-2 – Sitting on the feet, rolling and headstand
- Vancouver – University of British Columbia- 15 Aug 73 pt. 2 – All Fours, Sit Back, Roll
- Washington Quest – DAY2 – ATM #5 On Hands and Knees Continued: Sitting backward
- Washington Quest – DAY4 – ATM #11 Modes of Locomotion; crossing one knee in front of the other
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