Breathing Lessons on Feldy Notebook:
- Amherst 1 – Week 2 – 06/19/80 PM1 – Lying on Stomach, Movements of Legs, Eyes and Head
- Amherst 1 – Week 2 – 06/20/80 AM1 – Eye Movements / Eye Movements and Rolling
- Amherst 1 – Week 4 – 06/30/80 Rolling to the right and left (#1)
- Amherst 1 – Week 4 – 06/30/80 Rolling to the right and left (#4)
- Amherst 1 – Week 4 – 07/01/80 Tilting the knees (part 1)
- Amherst 1 – Week 4 – 07/01/80 Tilting the knees (part 2)
- Amherst 1 – Week 8 – 07/29/80 Voice
- Amherst 1 – Week 8 – 07/31/80 AM1 Mobility of hip – hand under kneecap (part 1)
- Amherst 1 – Week 1 – 06/10/80 AM1 – Flexing the upper body, Elbow to the knee
- Amherst 2 – Week 3 – 06/25/81 AM1 Body like a wave / Caterpillar wave
- ATM Basic Series – 3. Adapt Your Breathing to Your Needs
- ATM Book Lesson 4 – Differentiation of Parts and Functions in Breathing
- AY005 Equalizing the nostrils
- AY017 Breathing
- AY021 Contracting the abdomen while exhaling
- AY023 Palate mouth, and teeth
- AY028 Legs crossed and expanding chest and abdomen
- AY029 Minimal lifting
- AY035 Stomach and chest first
- AY126 The mouth and head cavity
- AY172 Stopping the Breath
- AY177 Making the spine flexible and integrating it
- AY179 Breathing (To weld by breathing)
- AY180 Breathing rhythmically #1
- AY185 Lying on the Feet # 3 and breathing rhythmically #2
- AY186 Breathing rhythmically #3 (The left side)
- AY187 Breathing rhythmically #4 (On both sides)
- AY188 Twisting the spine and Breathing rhythmically #5
- AY189 Directed breathing (Intentional breathing) (Breathing rhythmically #6)
- AY191 Pressing to the floor and breathing (Breathing rhythmically #7)
- AY201 Gluing in the Lungs Part 1
- AY202 Gluing in the lungs, #2
- AY203 Gluing in the lungs, #3
- AY204 Gluing in the lungs, #4 (Gluing and bending the back)
- AY217 On the side, the sternum becoming flexible
- AY218 On the side, bending and twisting the chest and spine
- AY230 Self hug the arms rolling the upper and lower girdle, on the back and abdomen
- AY233 With the legs joined lying on the floor
- AY238 Standing backward, part 2
- AY266 Crossing knees and coordinated eye movements
- AY274 Introduction to Walking (1)
- AY275 Introduction to Walking 2, Continuation
- AY280 On hands and shoulders
- AY282 Basis of hopping, continuation [2]
- AY283 Continuation on one leg
- AY284 Slow improvement
- AY289 Standing on one leg with movements
- AY299 Distinction of the movement underneath the bellybutton in the breathing during oscillations
- AY317 Touching the floor in standing
- AY336 Pushing the hip backward on both sides
- AY351 Swinging the legs on the side
- AY359 Tanden with bending the knees
- AY407 Heel in the hand
- AY416 Protruding the abdomen
- AY435 Alternately Stomach up/down in the Breathing
- AY447 Opposition on the side
- AY453 Eyes and lines
- AY460 Separation in lying with Saika
- AY462 Separating the left limbs in sitting
- AY470 Continuation with standing leg on leg
- AY480 Bending movements of the head on a chair
- Berkeley 1973 – 3. Extension 6/19 AM
- E03 Tilting Crossed Legs
- Franz Wurm, Der aufrechte Gang – Series 1 – 9. Wippe
- Haller – Breathing into all 6 dimensions
- Haller – Breathing, expanding your internal balloon
- IDF17 – Breathing and movements of the feet
- LT05 Flexors
- LT18 Breathing
- MG77 #09 – Differentiating movements of leg to roll forward and backward
- MG78 #01 – Coordinating flexors and extensors
- MM11 Rocking the Pelvis
- Rotterdam 1976 – Tape 7 – See Saw Breathing
- SF1 – Week 3 – 1 July 1975, AM1 – A theoretical lesson on the physiology of breathing
- SF1 – Week 3 – 1 July 1975, AM2 – Paradoxical breathing
- SF1 – Week 3 – 1 July 1975, PM – A short breathing lesson related to the lecture
- SF2 – Week 06 – 21 July 1976, pm: Lengthening the Arms Overhead with Fingers Interlaced
- SF2 – Week 10 – 16 August 1976: Do You Breathe In or Out?
- SF2 – Week 10 – 17 August 1976: Do You Breathe In or Out? continued
- SF2 – Week 10 – 18 August 1976: Moving the Body Relative to the Head
- SF2 – Week 10 – 19 August 1976: Ways of Holding the Head and Turning It, and Moving the Body Relative to the Head, continued
- SF3 – Day 12/B – 30 June 1977 – Oscillating pelvis with heels and feet
- SF3 – Day 26 – 27 July 1977: Prone, tilting pelvis, relationship of breath and movement to back and ribs. Continues into kneeling on all fours.
- SF3 – Day 29 – 2 August 1977: Prone: lifting hips, shoulders, middle ribs; effects on breathing. Lines of stress from heel to hand.
- SF3 – Day 40 – 22 August: Movements of hands and feet followed with eyes. Diagonal connections.
- SFEC Public Workshop – Vol. 2 – 1. Better Breathing
- Toronto 1980 – DAY3-2 – Head through the gate, see-saw breathing
- Vancouver – Hotel Vancouver – 3. Perfecting the pelvic clock/Breathing Out and Swallowing/Scan, 10AUG73 Pt. 2
- Vancouver – Hotel Vancouver – 4. Flexion (Flexor), 11AUG73
Discussion:
In addition to the lessons listed above, these lessons were included in the Feldyforum post by Peggi Honig on 9/13/2014, and others posts synthesis:
- AY #241. Getting to know your hip joints.
- AY #280. On hands and shoulders.
- ATM Book: Lesson 12.
Ellen Soloway compiled a list here.
Members of FGNA can find more on breathing here.
Resources:
“Ways to Better Breathing” by Carola Speads.
“The New Science of Breath” by Stephen B. Elliott.
“Conscious Breathing: Breathwork for Health, Stress Release, and Personal Mastery” by Gay Hendricks
Breathing article by Steve Hamlin
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