Well, here it is–the last lesson I’ll be teaching for a while. Enjoy the archives! And don’t stop rolling!
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Another oscillations lesson
If you want to feel really asymmetrical (and who doesn’t?), this is the lesson for you!
Feeling asymmetrical, by the way, is nature’s way for you to learn from yourself. So it’s useful, apart from being fun.
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Rolling arms
How does your ability to shift weight on your hips and from your feet affect how you can use your arms? Explore what every good fencer knows using this lesson!
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Another “classic rotation sitting” lesson
We’re finishing up this series—this is the fourth last class perhaps for the next year—with some classic lessons. Whatever a “classic” lesson means! It’s surprising how much of a voyage of discovery a familiar lesson can be. Side-sitting, your explore how combining different coordinations of your eyes, shoulders, head—and everything that supports all that, down to your toes—expands your possibilities for action.
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Extensors: neck, spine and legs
Lift your head, look around, and see what your legs do. And find out what they don’t need to do.
This is more or less Moshe’s SF Evening Classes, lesson 2, for those keeping track at home.
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Tilting pelvis sitting: another recording
As we start the last 6-week series before my sabbatical, I am in the mood for coming back to the basics–with the fresh eyes I’ve developed and you’ve all developed from doing more Feldenkrais. And from living.
The title of this lesson talks about tilting the pelvis. There’s never one answer to the question “what is this movement?” but there’s a lot to be said for this as an exploration of the idea of how your back relates to your knees. And the surprising places that can take you.
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Falling from your side
You might think you’re safe from falling over when you’re already lying on the ground. But let’s see if we can’t find a little wiggle room for a few safe tumbles in that concept.
For all Haligonians and honorary Haligonians everywhere who are slipping and sliding in the ice and snow!
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Supporting the head (continuation)
Aka watching the butterflies flutter by. Enjoy this bonus lesson!
It’s AY 534, a continuation of AY 533. The idea that continues through the two lessons is finding the connection between turning your head (and your neck just so) so that everything follows…to your pelvis, to your knees, your feet.
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On stomach, face to knee
The theme for this week and next week’s bonus lesson is a very lovely connection: how just the right turn of the head and direction of the spine at the base of the neck engages your whole spine and…bends your knees. (Just when I thought I’d finally stopped thinking about the knees.)
This is AY 533.
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Lean on the Knee and Get Up
This is a change of pace from recent lessons. A little learning about spirals, changing planes, getting from the floor to standing in a beautifully efficient way.
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