Description of the theme:
In “four cardinal points” lessons, you find the optimal placement of your hands and feet to move through a smooth spiral from standing to lying and back.
Four Cardinal Points lessons on Feldy Notebook:
- 25 Lessons from Eshkol-Wachman Movement Notation – Lesson 11
- 25 Lessons from Eshkol-Wachman Movement Notation – Lesson 12
- Amherst 1 – Week 2/3 – 4 points personal
- Amherst 1 – Week 6 – 07/18/80 AM2 Crossing knees – crawling (part 1)
- AY016 Four points
- AY321 Four points
- AY432 Four points – introduction
- E04 Four Cardinal Points of Support on Hands & Feet, Sitting to the Right and Left
- Franz Wurm, Der aufrechte Gang – Series 2 – 08. Wippe im Knien
- LT02 Balance on all fours
- MM04 Crawling and Walking
- Paris – 3. Movements on four points
- Razumny – Four Cardinal Points
- Rotterdam 1976 – Tape 6 – Four Points
- Rotterdam 1976 – Tape 6 – Four Points continues
- Washington Quest – DAY4 – ATM #12 Sitting up from Belly/ATM #13 Spiral to Standing
Discussion:
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Key variations
- In some versions, you bring a straight leg through the space between the hand and opposite foot; in some variations the knee. These take you on a different trajectory to lying.
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