New York Quest – DAY4 – Increasing ease in the head, neck and shoulders. a) Sitting; rolling the head (AM2) b) Bell hand, rotating arms on back (PM1A) c) Sitting, rolling the head continued (PM1B)

Source

• 1981 New York Quest Workshop
• Duration of the recording: a) 47 min, b+c) 52 min

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Lesson Outline

• Highly condensed outline of key movements

Focus of the teaching

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Related ATMs

• Tag Avoiding-seriousness
• Tag Demonstration
• Tag Pendulum-movement-head
• Tag Simultaneity-of-different-movements
• Tag Imagining
• Tag Smile
• Tag  Habits
• Tag Avoiding-pain
• Tag Recall 
• Tag Hand-opening-closing

 

 

Willpower:

• Amherst 2 – Week 5 – 07/09/81 Preparation for Headstand / Semi-bridge on back, hold ankles
• Amherst 2 – Week 7 – 07/22/81 AM1 Holding the ankle and Straightening the leg
• New York Quest – DAY1 – PM3 – Rolling interlaced hands continued: coming to stand
• SF3 – Day 32 – 8 August 1977: Supine, tilting legs to side, arms overhead, connecting arm movements with legs and back. Same with soles of feet together.

Flexing fingers:

• Amherst 2 – Week 1 – 06/08/81 Flexing of right palm / Flex hand to stand
• Amherst 2 – Week 1 – 06/09/81 Flexing of right palm / Press floor to lift knee
• Amherst 2 – Week 1 – 06/10/81 AM1 Flexing hands and feet together
• Amherst 2 – Week 1 – 06/11/81 PM Sit, Shoulder Forward, Rotate Head
• Amherst 2 – Week 2 – 06/16/81 AM2 Bring Right Foot to Left Hand / Walk Right Foot Around Left Knee (continued)
• Amherst 2 – Week 3 – 06/25/81 PM Rhiannon’s lesson – exploring eyebrows and bridge of nose / Exploring eye structure in relationship to the spine
• New York Quest – DAY4 – PM2 – From straight leg sitting to rolling on the back, opening and closing hand
• New York Quest – DAY5 – AM2 – a) Pressing and lifting on the side, opening and closing hand to stand b) Variations in standing c) Pressing again on side, making a wave

Jean-Jacques Rousseau:

• Amherst 1 – Week 8 – 07/30/80 AM3 Hand below kneecap (part 1)

Exercise:

• Amherst 2 – Week 3 – 06/24/81 am: Preparation for Headstand and Carp jump (cont.)
• New York Quest – DAY1 – PM3 – Rolling interlaced hands continued: coming to stand
• New York Quest – DAY2 – AM1+2 – Lifting the head on the back: simple flexion, one side in imagination

Curiosity:

• Amherst 1 – Week 1 – 06/09/80 AM2 – Movement of the eyes left and right
• Amherst 2 – Week 3 – 06/24/81 PM Preparation for Headstand and Carp Jump, Shoulder Roll
• New York Quest – DAY5 – PM3 – Lecture: Learning is doing things in a different way. Even in simple things we have lost contact with ourselves
• New York Quest – DAY6 – AM2 – Hands-On Functional Integration Session with a woman with cerebral palsy. Feldenkrais talks very little during the lesson but does describe it at the end

 

 

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