I’m very excited that Ron Renz has begun teaching with me at the Yoga Loft’s [[Wednesday evening ATM class]]. And he’s contributing to the recorded ATMs.
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the feldenkrais method with lynette reid
These are live recordings of Feldenkrais Awareness Through Movement lessons. Here are some suggestions if you’re not sure where to start or how to find one you want to do.
– You can click the “SERIES” link in the menu above to find the lessons organized in the series in which they were taught.
– The tag cloud in the right sidebar is one way to find lessons. It is highly descriptive: the tags tell you, for example, that a lesson is face down and involves twisting or addresses explicitly the idea of the self-image or reversibility. What the lesson will do for you — improve your breathing and voice, your walking and running, your sore back or knee or ankle — is very personal. It’s what you discover from the lesson. So the lessons aren’t tagged that way! Your live, local Feldenkrais practitioner can give you customized advice about how to approach a specific problem and work with a specific lesson to address it.
– You can click on the tag “beginnings” to get some ideas about where to start.
The recordings are a side-product of the live lessons in Halifax, Canada — they’re not professionally recorded. You can find on the web many lessons for sale that have been professionally recorded to a high standard. On this site, older recordings in particular may have poor sound quality.
I’m very excited that Ron Renz has begun teaching with me at the Yoga Loft’s [[Wednesday evening ATM class]]. And he’s contributing to the recorded ATMs.
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We can address the eyes in many ways in our explorations: in this lesson their calm, and the quality of our vision of the dark, is a marker of the overall state of the nervous system. See Bourdon’s image to feed your sensing and thinking.
What else can you do with this lesson? We go left and right, up and down. How about making clocks?
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A classic lesson, providing some of the basic vocabulary of our work. Have a look at Albinus’s classic image of the skeleton from behind — view the image with your kinaesthetic imagination and the questions asked during this lesson in mind.
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If movements of your knees can reach your fingertips, and movements of your fingertips can reach your knees…that must mean we are each one of us a single whole creature, no?
NB: The audio is a little crappy this week. Sorry! The mike connection to the iPod wasn’t secure and there were snaps and clicks, which I then tried to take out. We lose a few whole phrases through these snaps and cracks.
Bitrate repaired in 2013, but probably the basic sound is still lousy!
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One of the great mysteries of Feldenkrais: how does that “phenomenological weight loss” happen? I weigh x pounds when I arrive for the lesson; I weigh the same an hour later when it’s over. How can I feel so much lighter on my feet?
This lesson explores the question at that very moment of shifting weight onto a foot.
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One skill you never knew that you didn’t have…pecking like a chicken!
The “walking lesson” referred to in the conversation on the recording wasn’t recorded–it’s AY 501-2, for those who have the books. We’ll record it some day.
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What could he be thinking? How did anyone ever come up with the idea that you could lie on your side, top knee in front on the floor, turn your face and shoulders towards the ceiling, and tap your shoulder blades on the ground? It feels impossible – in an entirely unique way for each shoulder!
How about if you stop the recording whenever you find yourself pushing for the achievement, and invent a variation or exploration that’s easier than what you’re doing now? Each of these explorations can be a whole lesson in itself. And then when you come back to the recorded lesson, all sorts of surprising possibilities may emerge.
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This lesson introduces a technique for “completing the self-image.”
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I would encourage you to get your remote control ready for this one, or have some other means to pause and restart. After doing each instruction on one side, and after resting, pause the recording and lead yourself through the movements on the second side.
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This is the second part of the previous lesson; do take your time and come back to this another day!
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