Source
- Alexander Yanai Vol 7 #304
- Reel 21, Track 1, Lesson 4
- Duration 45 minutes
Synopsis
Lying face down, with knees bent to ceiling, you explore the ability to maintain the foot flat in relation to the ceiling while turning heels and toes in and out. To clarify this, you draw circles and quarter circles with the heels, and with awareness of line from heel to big toe and heel to little toe.
Lesson Outline
Focus of Moshe’s teaching
Related ATMs
Foot movement in space/Sole of the foot parallel to the ceiling (prone):
- Amherst 1 – Week 2 – 06/19/80 PM1 – Lying on Stomach, Movements of Legs, Eyes and Head
- Amherst 1 – Week 3 – 06/23/80 AM1 – Lying on stomach (part 2)
- Amherst 1 – Week 1 – 06/11/80 AM1 – Extensor (Incomplete)
- AY111 Painting with the soles of the feet
- AY118 On the stomach; tilting the legs in circles
- AY175 Turning in the heels, #1 or Circles with the heels
- AY176 Turning in the heels, #2
- AY245 Heels and feet in circles
- AY298 Improving the hopping for beginners
- Franz Wurm, Der aufrechte Gang – Series 2 – 10. Orientierung des Fußes
- IDF09 Movements of the right foot (prone)
- IDF20 Movements of the right foot
- IFF Archive Collection: Foot Differentiation. 3 August, 1973
- LT03 Foot on dial of clock
- SF1 – Week 4 – 7 July 1975: Standing at the wall and prone, turning the foot
- SF2 – Week 03 – 29 June 1976: Bending the Toes, on the Stomach and in Sitting
- SF3 – Day 18 – 13 July 1977: Prone with knees bent and soles to ceiling. Exploring cardinal movements of the feet and ankles
- SFEC Notes – 09. Tilting legs on stomach
- SFEC Notes – 13. Clarifying Movements of the Feet (July 26)
- SFEC Public Workshop – Vol. 1 – 10. More flexible feet
- SFEC Public Workshop – Vol. 3 – 03. A longer spine
Others:
- This forms part of the series working with the image of a ball rolling on the diagonals
- See AY 303, 305 and Lesson 11 in Awareness Through Movement
- Esalen Workshop (1972) 46 – Imagination and Action to Complete the Back Self Image (recordings)
- Feldenkrais, Moshé – Awareness Through Movement Basic Series – 10. Generalize Your Skills
- Tag Imagining
- Tag unilateral
- Tag Flex-feet
- Tag Flex-feet-prone
Resources
- A recording based on this lesson by Lynette Reid is at: http://kinesophics.ca/foot_and_its_movements_space/
- Also one by Sharon Starika at http://openatm.org/atm/sharon2003/sharon_021103.mp3
- If you are a feldyforum subscriber, search the archive for a discussion of this lesson and recording.
Share Your Insights (ideas, principles, strategies, experiences, …)
- Principles: refining cortical control of the leg extensors – lereid Sep 12, 2010
- Strategies: clock – lereid Sep 12, 2010
- Exploring the connection of the ball-rolling image of the preceding lessons with this refinement of heel control makes for an interesting FI experience. – lereid Sep 12, 2010
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