In this lesson in side-lying, you refine control of your legs while finding the subtle ways that you can use your spine and trunk for this fine control.
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Tilting Knees to the Inside
This lesson works in internal rotation of the hips, and shows you how much that has to do with your shoulders….neck….head.
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A Clock
This isn’t the first pelvic clock lesson I’ve posted–it has some special nuances, ones that let you study your own patterns and biases in control of your pelvis in action. Check out other versions at: http://www.kinesophics.ca/tag/pelvic_clock
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Classic Rotation Sitting
This “classic” lesson (we call the theme the “dead bird” lesson) works in sitting, and shows the surprising power of the eyes to organize movement–or, perhaps better, your willingness and availability to move.
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Coordinating Flexors and Extensors
I’m surprised I haven’t recorded this one yet–a classic lesson, with a few quirks specific to the San Francisco Evening Class notes I recently acquired. In the first two weeks of the current series, we’ve done lessons heavy in one direction or the other (flexion, extension); this third lesson puts a twist into things–and gives us a whole new level of coordinating flexors and extensors.
This is a recording you can come back to and add your own embellishments: turn your head with and against; the same with your eyes (make four combinations of head/eyes….). Add some see-saw breathing. Stay with your knees to the side and lift/lower each shoulder, or lift your head with your interlaced hands, or slide your head and arms from side to side (side-bending). The challenging thing when making variations by yourself is to choose one or two simple ideas and stick with that, with the same patient pace of exploration you get in the recordings.
The recording quality is not the same as the last few weeks–I was missing my mic, so recording just with the internal mic on conference room setting.
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Extensors
This extensor lesson may have you seeing the world in a whole new way. What other limitations in the world are limitations in your own organization?
Oh dear; philosophy and sociology rear their heads. I’m not really into personalizing responsibility like this. Let’s have a long blog post about that when I’m not heading off to catch a plane.
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Walking Backward
This is the second of two lessons in the January 15 Workshop: Weight and Weightlessness, 2011. In the first lesson, Lifting a long leg, we were in sidelying, finding how to manage the weight of the long leg in various directions/configurations. This got us using our spines and relating ourselves heel to pelvis to head.
Now we’re on to weightlessness: finding the reflexes in standing and the lengthening of the head up and forwards as the hip joint goes back and down, to turn walking into a gentle springing orchestration of reflexes.
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Lifting a long leg
This is the first of two lessons in the January 15 Workshop: Weight and Weightlessness, 2011. We’re in sidelying, finding how to manage the weight of the long leg in various directions/configurations.
It’s a mash-up of Mia & Gaby’s lesson (1977 #9) and Moshe’s AY #232 (minimal movements lying on the side, for those following along at home.
The second lesson is Walking Backward–or in a recording from a couple of years ago, Walking backward.
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Tilting Pelvis Sitting
First class back on Cornwallis Street, and a classic, though perhaps challenging, introductory lesson. Refining control of the pelvis from the core, and relating this to some fun activities you may not have enjoyed since back before your memory starts…
I hope you can all enjoy the boost to my recording volume and clarity brought on by using the iPhone plus HT Recorder!
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The Foot and its Movements in Space
Factoid verification, after the lesson. There’s actually 26 bones in each foot….making one quarter of the bones in the human body, but nowhere near 66! And here’s your sensory and motor homunculus images to contemplate. You feel more in your feet than you control, a feature shared in a more extreme form by teeth, gums, and genitals, which don’t appear on the motor homunculus. And you comparative control some parts in greater detail that you actually sense in less detail. (Click the image to see.)
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