Source
- Alexander Yanai Vol 9
- Reel 28, Track 2, Lesson 2
Synopsis
- Sidelying, half turned on to the back with the elbow and knee towards the ceiling, take the elbow and knee in opposite directions around the middle, in order to find the precise place in the back where you create this movement in opposite directions.
Lesson Outline
- Lie on R side, turned so face to ceiling; L hand on forehead and roll head; do this leaning the L foot on the R ankle, L knee lifted.
- Other side.
- R side, and continue, but now take elbow and knee in opposite directions.
- Other side.
- R side, come to the position where the elbow and knee are in the same line, and take the body (head/shoulders/elbow?) to the R (forward) and knee to the L (backward), and return to middle.
- Switch–knee R and body L.
- Other side.
- On L side, extent R arm back and R leg forward. Lift them to parallel and continue with knee to the R and arm to the L in one movement and back to the middle. With quality, increase size, and the continue to do the movement on both sides (through the middle and vice versa).
- Other side.
- On L side, lift R leg and arm to ceiling and lower to parallel to the floor: then take arm and leg down (towards your feet, not the floor; stay parallel) and return.
- Other side.
- Lie on each side and place hand on forehead and turn the head.
Focus of Moshe’s Teaching
- Indicate focus or key principles that are made explicit in the teaching
Related ATMs
- On side turning with straight arm in arc MG 77
- Sliding arm and leg on side rotating trunk MG 78
- A Guide to Awareness Through Movement, by Chava Shelhav and Dalia Golomb. In the German version, first edition, “Die Entdeckung der inneren Ordnung” it is lesson 9.
- Tag Twisting
- Tag Abdominal-muscles
Resources
- http://kinesophics.ca/somewhere-in-your-back/
- Variations on twisting and opposing gently, Falk Feddersen at Open ATM: http://openatm.org/atm/falkfeddersen/falk_ATM_mar08_2010.mp3
Share Your Insights (ideas, principles, strategies, experiences, …)
- I discovered this lesson a few weeks after I had hurt my back (in yoga) and I was very cautious about arching movements. I found this lesson eased the reactivity. Then one winter day I was trying out new showshoes, and my wife and daughter had gone ahead on a fairly steep trail. I slowed, then started thinking about the lesson, and bringing the foot forward and the opposite shoulder/arm back through a movement of the back. As the trail was steep, I was bent forward and I found I could increase speed yet maintain comfort. Later, when I went down, I again used the ideas of lengthening through the back. — Rob Black
- I have taught the lesson several times after. One time I used the conceptual frame of calibration — that is, calibrating to gravity in this unusual position with the elbow in the air, finding the midpoint where gravity is minimized; same with the knee; then when they were going in opposite directions, the pull down of the elbow backward being offset by the pull forward of the knee, and slowly reversing. — Rob Black
- When Susanne Schönauer taught the lesson in a training, she emphasized the idea of having the nose and the sternum in one line, so that you can get more motion in the middle of the back.
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