podcast – kinesophics

Start with this lesson, and learn something you can use to transform any lesson that you do. This is the first of two lessons from the Agile Awareness workshop in September 2009. The second lesson is [[Simpler]].

What does this have to do with lengthening the hamstrings? Holding your feet and rolling from side to side?

What does this have to do with lengthening the hamstrings? Holding your feet and rolling from side to side?

Where does flexibility come from? Why is it that we can only move so far, and then we stop? Tight muscles? Bad joints?--Or habits?

Where does flexibility come from? Why is it that we can only move so far, and then we stop? Tight muscles? Bad joints?--Or habits?

Watching the local students do this lesson this week was really a treat. It's like watching a room of people giving themselves FI lessons (one-on-one hands-on Feldenkrais).

Watching the local students do this lesson this week was really a treat. It's like watching a room of people giving themselves FI lessons (one-on-one hands-on Feldenkrais).

With a certain obsessive focus I return from three weeks of holidays to come back to the last theme I was teaching....the raising and lowering of the head will be familiar from the [[Lowering the head]] lesson.

With a certain obsessive focus I return from three weeks of holidays to come back to the last theme I was teaching....the raising and lowering of the head will be familiar from the [[Lowering the head]] lesson.

My niece is at that stage of figuring out how to balance that big heavy head at the top of a small neck--tiny little vertebrae without a lot of big muscles around them--as she heads off running down the street. It's fun to watch. This lesson may broaden the resources available to you in keeping a good head on your shoulders!

My niece is at that stage of figuring out how to balance that big heavy head at the top of a small neck--tiny little vertebrae without a lot of big muscles around them--as she heads off running down the street. It's fun to watch. This lesson may broaden the resources available to you in keeping a good head on your shoulders!

Two weeks earlier, we did a lesson (not recorded, but similar to [[Amherst, Year 2, Tape #31]]) that involved rolling a full 360 degrees on the floor. I noticed that there was much less agility in the phase of the rolling that was face down--and in that lesson, we spent less time on that aspect. So here's a lesson a couple of weeks later to spend some time developing that agility face down.

Two weeks earlier, we did a lesson (not recorded, but similar to [[Amherst, Year 2, Tape #31]]) that involved rolling a full 360 degrees on the floor. I noticed that there was much less agility in the phase of the rolling that was face down--and in that lesson, we spent less time on that aspect. So here's a lesson a couple of weeks later to spend some time developing that agility face down.

I'm very excited that Ron Renz has begun teaching with me at the Yoga Loft's [[Wednesday evening ATM class]]. And he's contributing to the recorded ATMs.

We can address the eyes in many ways in our explorations: in this lesson their calm, and the quality of our vision of the dark, is a marker of the overall state of the nervous system. See Bourdon's image [[Eyes and nervous system]] to feed your sensing and thinking.