Source
- Ann Harman taught at the 2003 conference at Omega.
A rough transcript of the lesson from feldyforum by Ann Harman
Synopsis
- Write a couple of sentences.
Lesson Outline
- Lie down on your back.
- Body scan. Observe sensations in throat and mouth.
- Open and close mouth, observing ease and quality of movement.
- Place fingers on tip of chin. Stroke back toward the throat until you find bone at top of throat.
- Bring fingers apart on each side of tip of chin. Stroke back to find hyoid.
- Repeat, beginning with fingers farther apart on mandible each time, until you have stroked from all parts of mandible to touch all parts of hyoid.
- Explore hyoid, discovering shape of bone.
- Extend head (tilt backwards), return to neutral
- Stroke hyoid back to front, slightly lifting it.
- Extend head while stroking and lifting hyoid.
- Flex head. Stroke and lift hyoid while flexing head.
- Does it lift more easily now?
- Grasp the hyoid gently so as not to inhibit its movement, using the thumb and index finger.
- Swallow, observing movement of the hyoid.
- Gently push hyoid up toward head a few times.
- Push hyoid down toward feet a few times.
- Open and close the mouth. Has the quality of the movement changed?
- Rest.
- Press hyoid to the left, and then allow it to return to center.
- Press hyoid to the right, and then allow it to return to center.
- Move the hyoid in an arcing motion, lifting the right side of the hyoid up and pushing the left side down.
- Move the hyoid in an arcing motion, lifting the left side of the hyoid up and pushing the right side down.
- Rest. Note sensations in throat. How much space is in throat?
- Open and close the mouth. Has the quality of the movement changed?
- Vocalize an “O”. Can you feel this in the throat? With a hand on the hyoid, can you feel the vibration?
- Rest.
- Place hand on hyoid. Vocalize “O” and vary the pitch. What happens to the hyoid as the pitch changes?
- Press hyoid gently upward as you vary the pitch.
- Press hyoid gently downward as you vary the pitch.
- Rest.
- Move the hyoid up, down, right, and left. Does it move more easily?
- Swallow, and note sensation. Does throat feel more open?
- Slowly open and close jaw. Has this changed?
- Stand and walk. Notice carriage of head and shoulders.
Focus of Moshe’s Teaching
- Indicate focus or key principles that are made explicit in the teaching
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- Amherst 2 – Week 8 – 07/30/81 AM1 Gravity and FI (Questions from Students included)
- Amherst 1 – Week 8 – 07/29/80 Voice
- Amherst 1 – Week 8 – 07/28/80 AM3 Voice
- Amherst 1 – Week 7 – 07/25/80 AM3 On the voice
- SF2 – Week 10 – 19 August 1976: Rocking on the Top of the Head
- AY435 Alternately Stomach up/down in the Breathing
- AY005 Equalizing the nostrils
- AY023 Palate mouth, and teeth
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