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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.

January 20, 2013

Protrusions and Bendings

A subtle coordination of the head and spine to support the bending of the leg–it just may put a spring in your step in the middle of winter (for those of us in the Northern hemisphere, that is!).

You may want to have a few flat, firm cushions or flat, folded towels for under your head as you lie on the side. Depending on the organization of your spine, shoulders, and neck, you may be able to do it without. If your neck is strained, that’s an extra barrier to feeling the dynamic connection with your pelvis and legs.

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January 17, 2013

Dead Bird

The “dead bird” is a classic lesson. The image refers to the way you hang the arm in front of the face, at eye level or a little lower–with the wrist limp, like a dead bird’s wing. I was listening to Moshe teaching it at Amherst. He says, maybe it’s an intelligent bird’s wing. Not a bird mindlessly using energy or effort to hold the wrist stiff…

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December 15, 2012

The mouth and head cavity

We spend a great deal of time concerned with the contents of our head–but its physicality? Its shape, size? What we can sense with sensory nerves and what we can “map” in our self-image? The space the brain rests inside? And how can it possibly transform action and feel so much just to pay attention to these things?

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December 13, 2012

Edges of the Feet

We can go our whole lives without realizing there’s some subtle movement of the ankle or use of the sole of our feet that has become a blind spot to us, unavailable. Then we buy orthotics or fuss about the right shoe to push our feet around in certain ways. Try improving your ability with your feet!

Sneak preview: we’ve working on the ankle-neck relationship this week and next.

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November 30, 2012

Pelvic Clock in detail

It doesn’t get more “core” than how you organize yourself to use all the nuances and shades of potential action that your pelvis can generate and support. This classic pelvic clock lesson is an essential exploration you can return to again and again.

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November 22, 2012

Differentiation of Parts and Functions in Breathing

Drawn from the Awareness Through Movement book, this lesson explores and differentiates the “mechanisms” you use to breathe. Ribs and sternum lifting and subsiding, diaphragm tightening to lower and then returning to its high resting dome. And then shall we turn everything upside down?

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November 15, 2012

Slow lifting on stomach

Feldenkrais had a general idea about “efficient action”–that you would use all the musculature proportionately to its mass/size. More work in the large, central (proximal) muscles, light refinement from the distal muscles. This lesson explores that fundamental idea.

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November 10, 2012

Scanning directions; lifting shoulders, hips, and head

After a slow season, lessons are beginning again. Here’s something quiet, introspective–just a little lifting of a shoulder here, a hip there, a head from time to time. And the basic “directions” that structure the image of the action, while we’re at it.

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September 21, 2012

Rolling side to back

A fall re-acquaintance with the floor. The smoother your roll, the greater the lengthening of your left side–the more cleverly you’re organizing yourself for a “reversible” movement.

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August 6, 2012

Falling to the side

I’d better get this posted while it’s still summer, what with all the summer commentary about how to be your own teacher. Legs crossed, arms in a triangle–how far can you go and still keep your balance? Or maybe that question stops making sense, and you can go wherever you want to go.

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