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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Lengthening the hamstrings
What does this have to do with lengthening the hamstrings? Holding your feet and rolling from side to side?
This lesson is a good example of how, in Feldenkrais, we tie some localized “function” to which our culture has attached a great deal of importance (everyone’s hamstrings are “too tight”!) to a broader functional movement that is an echo of something in the developmental process of the first few years.
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Baby rolling
It’s developmental, it’s political, it’s another take on the previous week’s (unrecorded) lesson. Would you like to think of variations? How about going from a 180 degree turn to a 360 degree turn? How would you develop that movement? “Last week’s lesson” referred to here but not recorded is Amherst, Year 2, Tape #31.