AY374 Leaning on the hands and twisting

Source

• Alexander Yanai Vol 8
• Reel 24, Track 4, Lesson 4
• Duration of the recording: 45 minutes

Synopsis

• Face down, with the legs apart, knees bent, and inside borders of the feet touching (or the legs together, knees bent), and the hands planted on either side of the shoulders, you push with the hand to roll the chest and/or the whole body to one side and the other, with variations of the head and of coordinating taking the heels towards the pelvis/turning the foot in the ankle to take the forefoot to point towards the floor. The reference movement is in kneeling, taking the pelvis back as though to sit on the knees.

Lesson Outline

• Highly condensed outline of key movements

Focus of Moshe’s Teaching

• Indicate focus or key principles that are made explicit in the teaching

Related ATMs

• See also Theme Shoulders
• Tag Prayer
• Tag Sitting on heels
• Tag Base-of-neck
• Tag Carriage-of-the-head
• Tag Twisting
• Tag Hands-in-push-up-position-prone
• Tag Flex-feet-prone

Resources

• Recording on kinesophics: http://kinesophics.ca/leaning-on-the-hands-and-twisting/

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