Recorded ATM Lessons

The following ATM lessons are recorded live in class and offered for your interest and learning. They are not professionally recorded; the quality varies.

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Not sure where to start? Check out Past Class Themes and Past Workshops to see organized lists of 2-6 lessons with some explanation of the idea the series is organized around.

Crossed legs, tilting knees to the side

Submitted by Lynette Reid on Thu, 2012-05-17 23:07

Kicking off a new series aimed at twisting things around, growing taller, and getting that spine of yours more supple. With a special shout-out to cousins who find it interesting to grow taller. This is a variation on a familiar kind of lesson, but it is a new variation, I promise.

44:40 minutes (10.22 MB)

Elbows in crooks

Submitted by Lynette Reid on Sun, 2012-04-29 09:55

This fascinating lesson (but which lesson isn't fascinating?) is (literally?) an eye-opener. Picking up some ideas from Violin arms but moving closer in to the core, it will show you some connections and some distinctions you probably have never felt before in your shoulders.

56:30 minutes (12.93 MB)

Crawling to sitting addendum

Submitted by Lynette Reid on Thu, 2012-04-19 19:56

Do the last lesson From crawling to sitting first! This is just an experimental add-on, a little trial of some ideas, an exploration to see what happens, tacked on at the end of the lesson for those who would stay.

18:20 minutes (4.2 MB)

From crawling to sitting

Submitted by Lynette Reid on Thu, 2012-04-19 19:51

A little bit of this with the hands, a little bit of that with the feet... yes, shoulders and hips. But can we put it all together into something functional? For a baby at least? Find spiral transitions and stealth twistings of the long axes of the arms and legs?

49:20 minutes (11.29 MB)

Violin Arms

Submitted by Lynette Reid on Wed, 2012-04-11 23:11

By the end of this one, you won't know left from right or up from down. But your shoulders and neck will feel different. Maybe your hips and self too.

59:00 minutes (13.5 MB)

Interlacing toes

Submitted by Lynette Reid on Thu, 2012-04-05 08:34

You have habits of how you interlace your hands....but your toes? How can you have a habit of how you interlace your toes? Have you ever done this before? Since you were 2 years old?

52:50 minutes (12.09 MB)

Hands interlaced

Submitted by Lynette Reid on Fri, 2012-03-30 23:26

Explore some of the remarkable agility you have in your hands and wrists. And while you're at it--who knows?--your neck may lengthen and shoulders re-organize.

I tried a slightly different recording arrangement to get rid of the annoying scratchy noises--it made them worse. Will try to fix before the next class!

45:10 minutes (10.38 MB)

Working with the dominant hand

Submitted by Lynette Reid on Thu, 2012-03-22 10:11

We typically make too much effort with the dominant hand, and hold too much strain in it in resting. This lesson gently differentiates the hand and forearm, explores the subtle movement of the humerus resting in the shoulder blade, and transforms the whole dominant side of the body.

Want to know more about handedness? Check out the book Right Hand Left Hand (http://www.righthandlefthand.com) by Chris McManus, and my blog post including comments at Which Side?.

47:59 minutes (10.99 MB)

Sliding along the length of the leg

Submitted by Lynette Reid on Sat, 2012-02-25 12:57

You'd think this is about the legs and the hips. But we're focusing on the hips and shoulders in the context of the whole. Your shoulders are certainly finding all sorts of new connections for supporting and enabling action in this one. Maybe it's really about the ways that both your hip joints and your shoulder joints really start somewhere around T8...

Local class participants note the whitewashing! I edited out all evidence of my arriving late for class.

48:10 minutes (11.02 MB)

Classical twist on the side with an advanced opening

Submitted by Lynette Reid on Thu, 2012-02-16 23:37

The kayak image isn't Moshe's; it's local colour. We specialize in local colour in Nova Scotia. Meanwhile, I doubt there's a better lesson for lengthening your neck, greasing your hips (how did that happen?), changing your walk, and reorganizing the use of your arms. Check it out.

49:50 minutes (11.41 MB)

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