Your study guide for ATM lessons

ATM Basic Series – 7. Perfecting Your Self-Image (ATM Book Lesson 8)

Source Feldenkrais, Moshé – Awareness Through Movement Basic Series Synopsis Equivalent to chapter 8 of the ATM book Sitting, hold one foot with both hands. Progressively roll over thigh to lie on back. Includes attention to reversibility of action and spatial location Lesson Outline Sit with soles close. Put right hand under right heel, all […]

AY231 Bringing the knee to the face in an arc

Source Alexander Yanai Vol 5 (201-250) Reel 16, Track 4, Lesson 2 According to the German edition the title in the Hebrew CD’s is “Bringing the big toe to the face in an arc”. Synopsis Write a couple of sentences. Lesson Outline Highly condensed outline of key movements Focus of the teaching In addition to […]

AY081 Washing the face with the feet

Source Alexander Yanai Vol 2 Reel 6, Track 3, Lesson 5 Synopsis Write a couple of sentences. Lesson Outline Highly condensed outline of key movements Related ATMs Tag Foot-to-head Tag Imagining Tag Lifting-feet-with-hands-sitting Tag Hip/Pelvis Freedom Tag Abdominal-muscles Tag Lengthening the back Tag Lower-back-and-pelvis   Flexing toes: Flexing feet, flexing knee, sitting: Flexing toes, Flexing […]

AY034 Foot on the head

Source Alexander Yanai Vol 1 Reel 3, Track 3, Lesson 1, Side ? Duration 44 min. Synopsis This short video is a visual reminder of AY 34. Someone else might interpret the movement you see with the words in a different manner. The words written sometimes are verbatim, sometimes close to verbatim and sometimes my […]

SFEC Notes – 01. Tilting pelvis sitting

Source SF Evening Class Notes (1976) (Ehrman, ed; 2005) Synopsis This first lesson of the SF evening class series. You’re sitting/lying with soles of the feet together, taking knees towards the floor, and then move through many variations of folding to rolling to the side and straight through the midline, with arms under the lower […]

ATM Book 08. Perfecting the Self-Image

Source ATM Book Synopsis Sitting, lift foot lying on hands towards head in circle; face up, same movement with foot, and lifting head; open leg/foot to side and roll; and so on to sit. Second half done in imagination, hence the connection to perfecting the self-image. Lesson Outline In sitting, soles touching, tilt right heel […]