podcast – kinesophics
Summary: An archive of Feldenkrais Awareness Through Movement lessons with Lynette Reid from Halifax NS
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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 [[http://kinesophics.ca/diyatm/atmrecordings/walking_backward_0|Walking backward]]--or in a recording from a couple of years ago, [[Walking backward]].
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 [[http://kinesophics.ca/diyatm/atmrecordings/walking_backward_0|Walking backward]]--or in a recording from a couple of years ago, [[Walking backward]].
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!
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!
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.)
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.)
When we fold forwards (flex) we think of this as shortening. But every shortening involves lengthening. You can lie on your back and take your knee and elbow towards one another--and that involves a certain level of challenge in lifting lefts and head. This lesson takes a familiar idea and does it in a different [[Vary the lesson: orientation, manipulation, timing|orientation]] -- sidelying -- and in this very low-effort environment, more refinement is possible. This is the second lesson in the April 2010 month of lengthening lessons.
The theme this month is "Finding Length." Here's a suggestion for working with this lesson. You might do it first in a very casual way where you pay attention only to getting comfortable with lying on your side with your legs in the positions described. Don't make too much effort with the arm/chest/chin directions on your first go through. Come back a day or two later, and do it again (fog horn comments and all), and now that you're not so much occupied with your balance on your side and your leg arrangement, you can play with the lengthening movements and the arms/chest/chin in a lighter and more refined way.
The theme this month is "Finding Length." Here's a suggestion for working with this lesson. You might do it first in a very casual way where you pay attention only to getting comfortable with lying on your side with your legs in the positions described. Don't make too much effort with the arm/chest/chin directions on your first go through. Come back a day or two later, and do it again (fog horn comments and all), and now that you're not so much occupied with your balance on your side and your leg arrangement, you can play with the lengthening movements and the arms/chest/chin in a lighter and more refined way.