the feldenkrais method with lynette reid
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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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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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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All these years, I tell you to go slower, slower, slower–and now fast? Fast, quick, light movements? Astonishing. And just wait to see how your breathing and use of your spine changes.
This is AY 447, for those keeping track. And a week is a long time in Canada, lately anyway. The bobblehead joke probably no longer makes much sense. It’s been overtaken by other events. Miley Cyrus is eternal however (really?) and the ATM I refer to as “the Miley Cyrus” is AY 451.
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If this face-down lesson doesn’t add an inch or so to your height (subjectively, if not objectively), I’d be surprised.
For those keeping track at home, this is a slow build-up, more or less half of AY473, with some loose interpretation.
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Hmmm…thought I’d long ago recorded and posted this one. No! Somewhere between the low back and the knees, the hip joints play a major role in action. Here’s a powerful flashlight you can use to clarify this area in your self-image.
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Well, this is a weird idea of what to do with your head. You’ll glide around the room with a long neck and everything below will feel very well-oiled, as long as you don’t try too hard.
For those following sources at home, this is mostly AY 6, though you’ll see some ideas that aren’t in the AY lesson as I was responding to where people were at in the room.
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We’re thinking about Theo Jansen’s wonderful Strandbeests, and how ‘stupid’ the knees are. They don’t need any sophistical neurological control. They just have to unfold at the right moment and be there for the weight of the body to pass over them.
How do you let your leg unfold?
This version is AY 117, by the way.
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The first lesson of our new Sept – Oct 2013 series: a gentle twisting movement on your side.
Some of my comments suggest that you might do the second side (as you go from side to side) in your imagination. This is always a good option when you can’t follow the instructions without pain. It’s also a really useful technique whatever your ability to move comfortably.
This is AY 434, for those keeping track at home.
Three minutes before the end of the lesson, I realize that my earring is hitting my microphone, and remove it. Oops.
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Harness the power of the pelvis to support your upper limbs — with some twists, bends, and an intriguing mystery with the toes.
I’ll try to figure out what all those crunchy noise are and stop them. I think it’s a hair-microphone thing.
(This is AY 440.)
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