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Amherst 2 – Week 9 – 08/03/81 PM2 Rocking the Pelvis

Source Amherst Year 2 (1981) Duration of the recording: 5 min. Synopsis Write a couple of sentences. Lesson Outline Highly condensed outline of key movements Focus of the teaching In addition to the movements, what theme or ideas did the teacher focus on Related ATMs Tag Fast-movements Tag Hip-backward Tag Hip/Pelvis Freedom Resources Add links […]

Amherst 2 – Week 9 – 08/03/81 PM1 Weight Shifting to Dancing

Source Amherst Year 2 (1981) Duration of the recording: 49 min. Synopsis Write a couple of sentences. Lesson Outline Highly condensed outline of key movements Focus of the teaching In addition to the movements, what theme or ideas did the teacher focus on Related ATMs Continuation of 08/03/81 AM3 Weight Shifting to Dancing the same […]

AY355 Bending knees -chair

Source Alexander Yanai Vol 8 Reel 24, Track 2, Lesson 2 incomplete Duration of the recording: 35 minutes Synopsis Write a couple of sentences. Lesson Outline Highly condensed outline of key movements Focus of the teaching In addition to the movements, what theme or ideas did the teacher focus on Related ATMs AY354. Walking backward. […]

AY356 Bending knees with toes lifted

  Source Alexander Yanai Vol 8 Reel 24, Track 2, Lesson 3 incomplete Duration of the recording: 39 minutes Synopsis Write a couple of sentences. Lesson Outline Highly condensed outline of key movements Focus of the teaching In addition to the movements, what theme or ideas did the teacher focus on Related ATMs Tag Next-to-chair […]

AY456 Protrusions and bendings

Source Alexander Yanai Vol 10 Reel 29, Track 4, Lesson 1 Duration of the recording: 34 minutes Synopsis Write a couple of sentences. Lesson Outline Highly condensed outline of key movements Focus of the teaching In addition to the movements, what theme or ideas did the teacher focus on Related ATMs 457. Each side separately […]

AY504 Continuation and return

Source Alexander Yanai Vol 11 (501-550) Reel 33, Track 1, Lesson 4 Duration: 36 minutes Synopsis This lesson invents absurd and ingenious non-habitual forms of walking, and shows how movements of the upper part of the body change the way we walk. Some of the movements are: walking hunched, with the back bowed forward and […]

AY524 Head and anus backward

Source Alexander Yanai Volume 11 Reel 34, Track 2, Lesson 2 Duration of the recording: unknown According to the german edition this lesson is not on the hebrew CD’s. Synopsis Extension on the side. This lesson will enhance functional symmetry for people with scoliosis due to mid-lesson variations of top-lying leg placed behind the weight […]

AY508 On the right ischium

Source Alexander Yanai Vol 11 (501-550) Reel 33, Track 2, Lesson 3 Duration of the recording: 40 min. Synopsis This lesson is done facing forward in an armless chair with both feet standing in front of the chair, with the left half of your buttocks off the chair, while the right sit bone and right […]

AY506 Hip joints backward

Source Alexander Yanai Vol 11 (501-550) Reel 33, Track 2, Lesson 1 Duration: 35 minutes Synopsis The Lesson is in standing. Moving hip joints backward while not allowing back to round. Linking movement of hip joints with movement in shoulders. Lesson Outline Stand with feet ‘joined completely together’ – feel self in standing, looking forward […]

AY502 Walking and crawling

Source Alexander Yanai Vol 11 (501-550) Reel 33, Track 1, Lesson 2 Duration: 41 minutes Synopsis This lesson dives into the movements that are described as being acquired through our evolutionary ancestors; such as swimming and coming to land. Dr Feldenkrais plays with varying our locomotion patterns with stomach crawling, quadruped motion to bipedal walking. […]