Source
- AY Volume 9
- Reel 29, Track 2, Lesson 2
- Duration of the recording: 44 minutes
Synopsis
- using an unusual strategy of fast, small movements, Dr. Feldenkrais introduces diagonal flexing, then finishes with whole-body flexing.
Lesson Outline
- Highly condensed outline of key movements
Focus of the teaching
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Related ATMs
- Tag Diagonals
- Tag Palms-on-floor-supine
- Tag Softening-chest
- Tag Breath-related-movement
- Tag Fast-movements
Lifting one side of the pelvis, supine:
Lifting shoulder, supine:
- Amherst 2 – Week 6 – 07/15/81 PM1 Back Like a Bridge/ Rolls; Shoulder Press / Pelvic Lift
- AY449 Bending in standing
- SF3 – Day 14 – 6 July 1977: Pressing and lifting shoulders and hip joints
- SF3 – Day 15 – 7 July 1977: Spinal chain continued (taught by Mia Segal)
- SF3 – Day 28 – 1 August 1977: Coordinating different combinations of flexing wrists and ankles, pressing/raising shoulders and hips, elbows and knees, etc.
Flexing toes, flexing feet, supine:
- AY447 Opposition on the side
- AY449 Bending in standing
- AY458 Bending Knees – Lying
- Toronto 1980 – DAY5-1 – Sitting between the heels
Flexing toes, flexing feet, flexing knees, supine:
Resources
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- A nice, gentle lesson, good for an intro.
Goes from specific to the whole body, activating flexors repetitively so their habitual tonus reduces.
A theme of ‘what moves with what’, especially shoulders and head. What do we habitually move together? and then, especially because of the fast movements, finding a more sustainable way.
Overarching thought: the body has an effective and fast response which we have overlaid with other functions, intentions, habits, leaving us feeling “tied up”. This lesson helps rediscover the built-in ease.
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