Theme Rolling to Sit

Description of this theme:

In many lessons, we explore the path from sitting to lying and back, rolling to the side and using the elbow and hand. This is a fundamental developmental theme: children initially use their elbows to break falls when they are sitting, and also use the elbows to come up to sit.

Rolling to sit lessons on Feldy Notebook:

• Amherst 1 – Week 1 – 06/10/80 PM2 – Flexors and rolling/Flexing the Upper Body, Elbow to the Knee (Continued)
• Amherst 1 – Week 3 – 06/25/80 PM2 – Rolling head and getting up (part 2)
• Amherst 1 – Week 3 – 06/27/80 Holding chin and rolling (#1)
• Amherst 1 – Week 3 – 06/27/80 Holding chin and rolling (#2)
• 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 (#3)
• Amherst 1 – Week 6 – 07/16/80 PM2 Index finger holding big toe
• Amherst 1 – Week 8 – 08/01/80 AM1 Sitting up with hands under kneecap (part 2)
• Amherst 1 – Week 8 – 08/01/80 AM2 Rolling to sit up
• Amherst 1 – Week 9 – 08/06/80 Full circles holding the legs
• Amherst 1 – Week 1 – 06/10/80 PM1 – Rocking and rolling
• Amherst 2 – Week 2 – 06/17/81 PM Holding Ankles- 3 Ways to Roll From Lying to Sitting / Roll Around Holding Feet
• Amherst 2 – Week 2 – 06/18/81 am Three Ways to Roll From Lying to Sitting / Three or More Ways to Roll
• Amherst 2 – Week 2 – 06/18/81 pm1 Three Ways to Roll From Lying to Sitting / Three or More Ways to Roll (continued)
• Amherst 2 – Week 2 – 06/18/81 pm2 Roll Lying to Sitting From the Stomach
• Amherst 2 – Week 3 – 06/22/81 am – Supine – holding behind left knee and Straightening leg
• Amherst 2 – Week 3 – 06/22/81 pm1 Continuation of Previous Lesson / Heel / Clock Roll-up
• Amherst 2 – Week 2 – 06/15/81 Interlacing fingers and toes to lift foot (continued)
• ATM Book 08. Perfecting the Self-Image
• ATMEC04 Sitting Up Easier
• AY003 Rolling to sit with the elbows
• AY067 Lengthening the leg into pulling movements while rolling
• AY102 Oscillations with lifting the head towards sitting
• AY115 A plane dividing the body, #2
• AY157 Sitting while holding the legs
• AY196 Heels under the pelvis #6 (Rolling up to sit)
• AY197 Heels under the pelvis #7
• AY223 Rolling from the back to side-sitting
• AY231 Bringing the knee to the face in an arc
• AY252 Rolling with holding the bridge of the foot.
• AY310 Training to sit without leaning on the floor
• AY311 Training to sit without leaning on the floor, continuation
• AY312 End standing
• AY326 Sitting – Lying
• AY384 Holding hand in hand on the back
• AY417 Preparation for rolling to sitting
• AY428 Lifting the feet with the toes
• AY429 Ankle and head on the side
• AY442 Ankle on the Knee to Sitting
• AY446 Ideal bending
• AY461 Diagonal sitting holding the knees
• AY498 Tilting the leg backward in sitting
• AY530 Crossing knees to sit
• AY531 Continuation
• AY532 Continuation to sitting
• E33 Introduction to rolling
• New York Quest – DAY4 – PM2 – From straight leg sitting to rolling on the back, opening and closing hand
• New York Quest – DAY3 – AM2 – Rolling from sitting to lying on the back continued, including taking the legs over the shoulders
• New York Quest – DAY6 – PM1 – Rolling from the belly to sit, bringing in many themes from the five days
• New York Quest – DAY6 – PM2 – Tilting legs on the belly to sit. Whole group moves together at the end
• SB5 Perfecting the self-image: Bringing the Foot to the Head and Rolling to Sitting
• SF2 – Week 03 – 29 June 1976: Rolling, Holding the Feet from the Inside
• SF2 – Week 04 – 7 July 1976, am1: Pulling the Feet with the Knees Crossed
• SFEC Notes – 01. Tilting pelvis sitting
• SFEC Notes – 05. Foot to head (July 1)
• SFEC Notes – 07. Rolling to sitting
• SFEC Notes – 22. Rolling to sit (Aug 12)
• SFEC Public Workshop – Vol. 1 – 5. New hip joints
• SFEC Public Workshop – Vol. 2 – 2. Flexible back
• SFEC Public Workshop – Vol. 2 – 3. Easy rolling
• SFEC Public Workshop – Vol. 2 – 6. More flexible than a child
• SFEC Public Workshop – Vol. 3 – 8. Rolling to Sit
• Ten ATM Lessons Taught by Jeff Haller
• Vancouver – Edmonds Center – 4. Supine, arms crossed over chest rock
• Vancouver – Edmonds Center – 5. Short instruction in rolling to sit
• Vancouver – Edmonds Center – 6. Sitting and Twistings ….Prone to sit … Sit tilt knees side to side
• Vancouver – Edmonds Center – 7. Elbows/Knees
• Vancouver – Edmonds Center – 8. Sit, head around shoulder girdle …….jelly pudding pelvis…… Roll onto back
• Vancouver – UBC – 13 Aug 73, Supine, tilt legs, roll side to side, then to sit then to stand

Discussion:

Add your thoughts and observations–ideas behind the lesson, history of Moshe’s development; Moshe’s discussions of this theme; your personal insights in experiencing, teaching or using ideas from the lessons in FI

• Moshe discusses the placement of the hand and elbow explicitly in Tilting the leg backward in sitting AY498:
  • “Pay attention if the arm is able to remain here or needs to move. Organize it to come up so once again it will be in a place that allows for continuity of movement. The first place that you find is not always the best. Usually not. Like this, you must find a place for the palm of the hand so that, during the entire movement on the back and on the side, it will be done with the minimum of corrections. There is a place like this. If there were not, then our arm would not be the length that it is. It would not have the power or the bending that it has. Our arms were made for this world and evolved in this world. That means to say, at the beginning, the baby begins from the floor. That means his arms are appropriate to this length and place. They allow him to learn healthy movements, strong ones that need to be used by him his entire life.”
• In the FI demonstration… Moshe demonstrates the use of this developmental theme to address spasticity.

Key variations:

• Legs bent, holding toe, instep, or ankle:
• Legs long, path over hand/elbow
  • Tilting the leg backward in sitting AY498 (holding inside/outside knee)
  • Rolling from the back to side-sitting AY 223 (lifting the head with the hand)
• Emphasis on using the momentum or direction communicated by the folding leg to sit
• Holding chin (fixes head-neck-upper ribs; makes you recruit the lower ribs, hips, lumbar spine more effectively)

 

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