podcast – kinesophics

The kayak image isn't Moshe's; it's local colour. We specialize in local colour in Nova Scotia. Meanwhile, I doubt there's a better lesson for lengthening your neck, greasing your hips (how did that happen?), changing your walk, and reorganizing the use of your arms. Check it out.

The kayak image isn't Moshe's; it's local colour. We specialize in local colour in Nova Scotia. Meanwhile, I doubt there's a better lesson for lengthening your neck, greasing your hips (how did that happen?), changing your walk, and reorganizing the use of your arms. Check it out.

Holding your big toe in a hook formed by your index finger, you pass your knee from side to side of your elbow. What lets your knee do this? What gets in the way? As usual, it's a surprise how little your actual hip joint, and how much your spine and chest and head have to do with this.

Holding your big toe in a hook formed by your index finger, you pass your knee from side to side of your elbow. What lets your knee do this? What gets in the way? As usual, it's a surprise how little your actual hip joint, and how much your spine and chest and head have to do with this.

Here we get into more detail with the shoulders, but still in a manner that relates everything to everything. I'm not quite sure why the class found that idea so funny. ;-)

Here we get into more detail with the shoulders, but still in a manner that relates everything to everything. I'm not quite sure why the class found that idea so funny. ;-)

One of those miracle lessons. What do these actions have to do with one another? How can something so restricted get so easy by doing something else entirely?

One of those miracle lessons. What do these actions have to do with one another? How can something so restricted get so easy by doing something else entirely?

Zooming in on the hips, but within a context where everything has to play along--the weight shifting on the pelvis, the shoulder lengthening instead of clutching, the head willing to go anywhere, the chest and spine flexible.

Zooming in on the hips, but within a context where everything has to play along--the weight shifting on the pelvis, the shoulder lengthening instead of clutching, the head willing to go anywhere, the chest and spine flexible.

I do apologize for the crackling. You can skip this if sound quality matters to you at all! If you persist and do it, you just may find yourself with a lengthened neck. The previous lesson referred to is [[From clarifying the hips to turning and lifting the head]]. And I'll investigate whether it was my turtleneck sweater interacting with the mic that caused this sound!

I do apologize for the crackling. You can skip this if sound quality matters to you at all! If you persist and do it, you just may find yourself with a lengthened neck. The previous lesson referred to is [[From clarifying the hips to turning and lifting the head]]. And I'll investigate whether it was my turtleneck sweater interacting with the mic that caused this sound!

This is a "core" lesson in many senses! This kind of lesson is usually one of the earliest lessons in an introductory series. It's full of the paradoxical approach of Feldenkrais--free the extensors for more effective action by moving in the direction of flexing; "strengthen" the flexors by making more effective use of your back moving backwards (lengthening the extensors); and pay attention to the "vegetative processes" (e.g. breathing) as you go!

This is a "core" lesson in many senses! This kind of lesson is usually one of the earliest lessons in an introductory series. It's full of the paradoxical approach of Feldenkrais--free the extensors for more effective action by moving in the direction of flexing; "strengthen" the flexors by making more effective use of your back moving backwards (lengthening the extensors); and pay attention to the "vegetative processes" (e.g. breathing) as you go!

Returning to our theme of turning on a dime, this lesson finds the relation between really standing, the freedom of the head, and the freedom to turn. Heavily but not completely edited to remove all my evening's left-right mix-ups. Left in the local colour in the form of free-associating to Ellen Page (from Halifax) and the movie Hard Candy.