Source
- Alexander Yanai Vol 6
- Reel 19, Track 2, Lesson 4
Synopsis
- Standing, shifting the weight between the feet, with the feet in various configurations (uncrossed, crossed, fore foot lifted), with head mobile and immobile, with an arc or a circling movement of the pelvis.
Lesson Outline
- Stand, shift the weight slowly between the feet, coordinated with the breathing
- Repeat, but with the head fixed in the center. Attend to how the breath organises
- Cross the legs over and again shift the weight between the feet. Attend to how the breath organises
- Cross the legs the other way and repeat. Attend to how little the head can be made to move
- Stand, shift the weight slowly between the feet, and lift one fore foot. Attend to the breath
- Stand, shift the weight slowly between the feet by making an arc with the pelvis backwards
- Repeat, with an arc of the pelvis forwards. Attend to the head staying immobile
- Repeat, with a circle of the pelvis
- Stand with the weight on one foot, the fore foot lifted, and make circles around that hip
Focus of the teaching
- Balance
- Weight distribution left and right
- Weight through the heels
- To mobilise the whole body allowing the head to remain still
- Coordination of breathing with movement
- The ATM ends with “Look at a point on the horizon without fixing the eyes. They can move, just know where forward is”
Related ATMs
- AY275 Introduction to Walking (2)
- AY276 Partial turnings to the fronts 3. (Page 1885)
- Theme Standing
- Theme Walking
- Tag In-standing
- Tag Balance
- Tag Posture
- Tag Weight-on-heels
- Tag Shifting-weight-standing
- Tag Breath-related-movement
- Tag Lifting-forefoot-standing
Quadriceps:
- Amherst 2 – Week 7 – 07/22/81 PM1 Holding the ankle and Straightening the leg (cont.)
- Amherst 2 – Week 7 – 07/22/81 PM2 Holding the ankle and Straightening the leg (cont.)
- Amherst 2 – Week 7 – 07/23/81 AM2 Prone-Raising and Moving Pelvis and Heels / Pelvis Orbits Around Foot (Included—Prone-Rocking the Body on the Stomach / Arc on Stomach)
- Amherst 2 – Week 8 – 07/27/81 PM1 Teaching and learning
- Amherst 2 – Week 8 – 07/28/81 PM Leg Flop to Squatting
- SF2 – Week 04 – 8 July 1976, am: Straightening the Leg, Holding Foot with Opposite Hand
- SF2 – Week 04 – 8 July 1976, pm: Straightening the Leg, Holding Foot with Opposite Hand continued
- SF3 – Day 19 – 14 July 1977: Prone, tilting legs in and out, holding ankles. Extensors.
Resources
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Share Your Insights (ideas, principles, strategies, experiences, …)
- For a week, I had been suffering foot pain and was limping whilst walking. After this lesson the pain improved by 95%. Doing lesson AY275 the following day eliminated the rest of the pain and I could walk without restriction by the 3rd day. (Ben Parsons)
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