podcast – kinesophics
Summary: An archive of Feldenkrais Awareness Through Movement lessons with Lynette Reid from Halifax NS
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Beyond the breath, many processes of digestion and excretion take place constantly as we go about our lives. This lesson plays with the actions of the voluntary sphincter muscles--these curious muscles around the eyes, the mouth, in the pelvic floor that don't open/close joints or pull on bones, but that open and close orifices. It's not as weird as it sounds.
Beyond the breath, many processes of digestion and excretion take place constantly as we go about our lives. This lesson plays with the actions of the voluntary sphincter muscles--these curious muscles around the eyes, the mouth, in the pelvic floor that don't open/close joints or pull on bones, but that open and close orifices. It's not as weird as it sounds.
This is the first of two lessons in the Integrating Life and Action workshop, March 2010. I keep talking in this lesson about how your breath "accommodates itself" to your actions and positions in the world. This strikes me as a little strange as I listen to it and do the lesson.
This is the first of two lessons in the Integrating Life and Action workshop, March 2010. I keep talking in this lesson about how your breath "accommodates itself" to your actions and positions in the world. This strikes me as a little strange as I listen to it and do the lesson.
The last two classes ([[On the side, the sternum becoming flexible]] and [[On the Side, Bending and twisting the chest and spine]]) had everyone in class talking about our lack of clarity in side-bending. First, what it is when simply standing or lying flat on the floor, to maintain the face in the same plane in sidebending.
Oddly enough, this lesson takes place largely lying on the back. So "on the side" doesn't refer to the position of the lesson. This lesson follows on the lesson [[On the side, the sternum becoming flexible]], which "really is" on the side.
Oddly enough, this lesson takes place largely lying on the back. So "on the side" doesn't refer to the position of the lesson. This lesson follows on the lesson [[On the side, the sternum becoming flexible]], which "really is" on the side.
The spine will only be as flexible as the ribs attached and the sternum allow it to be--and those will only move if they can see themselves moving relative to the pelvis. This lesson addresses that whole relationship.
The spine will only be as flexible as the ribs attached and the sternum allow it to be--and those will only move if they can see themselves moving relative to the pelvis. This lesson addresses that whole relationship.
Chronic tension of the lumbar and neck extensors is a fundamental pattern of limitation. This lesson addresses these areas actively and passively, with ingenious variations that address some key "hidden spots," particularly in the upper back and neck.
Chronic tension of the lumbar and neck extensors is a fundamental pattern of limitation. This lesson addresses these areas actively and passively, with ingenious variations that address some key "hidden spots," particularly in the upper back and neck.
To finish this month of fingers-to-spine lessons, we explore the connection between lengthening and turning along the axis of the arm--as though a gentle pull and twist from the fingers could draw across your spine and move your whole pelvis around your opposite hip joint. We also played with distributing intention.
This third lesson in the fingers-to-spine series continues to play with the independence of each finger [second lesson coming soon--the recording didn't work]--in relation now to extension, across the shoulders. This is a rare lesson: we do "both sides at once" from about a third of the way in.
This lessons demonstrates the reach of your fingertips extending all through your spine and chest....and in all directions.
Now that we have the idea of the primary image from the first lesson of the Agile Awareness workshop, let's start to refine it and fill it in. There are places in the back, between the shoulders blades and at the base of the neck, that are often a blank place in our self-awareness. This lesson finds and integrates them.