Includes a FREE talk and two ATM lessons for donors, plus discussion. This workshop is a literally uplifting celebration of finding inner strength with Feldenkrais!
- Lesson #1, Heel Spirals Through Buttocks, Hips, and Shoulders (back-lying) combines and refines ideas from the three Lifting Up and Through lessons (linked below)
- Lesson #2, Integrating the Feet for Potent Uprightness (back-lying) grounds us in another way, making all that we do in gravity easier
Lesson notes are below the video replays and links.
Everyone can access this workshop’s FREE talk summarizing the principles of Feldenkrais for self empowerment:
The rest of the workshop is bonus video content for our donors. You can learn about it in the lesson notes and comments below, but to access the lessons and discussion you’ll need to join The FP as Member or Patron. Learn more
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Comfort & Configuration:
Both lessons are back-lying, framed by brief explorations in standing. Comfort and props are described in the lesson intros and throughout them.
Context:
Now part of our Bonus Video Content for all donors, this workshop was designed as self-contained, accessible learning with Feldenkrais newcomers and longtimers in mind.
Feldenkrais Project regulars will recognize lesson #1’s ingredients in these three audio lessons, which are great review after the workshop:
- Lifting Up and Through
- Lifting Up and Through 2: Organizing Your Feet (Members & Patrons)
- Lifting Up and Through 3: Buttocks and Buoyancy (Members & Patrons)
Lesson #2 in this workshop is another version of Integrating the Feet, Torso, Head, and Breath: Connecting to the Earth (44 min, Patrons) with different variations.
This Self Empowerment workshop and the four lessons linked above can all be found in our Grounding for Liftoff course.
Related Lessons:
Check out the related lessons for the four lessons and the course listed in the Context tab above.
Arms in a Hoop, with Continuous Ground Support (Patrons) relies on many elements of the Lifting Up and Through lessons, and includes at the end an experiment with twisting the heels on the ground.
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The self empowerment talk is a beautiful synthesis of everything you’ve talked about before but infused with the wisdom you’ve gained from both Feldenkrais and mindfulness over the years. It’s a skilled and succinct articulation of many wisdom teachings. Thank you.
Wonderful to hear! The link to meditation/mindfulness was very intentional – I’m glad that came through. The boundary between Feldenkrais and meditation gets murkier the more I practice both.
I felt much more “in control” at the end of that second lesson. When lowering my heels at the end I found myself using the curling of my toes to pull myself back down to the ground, rather than just kind of dropping the weight of my body down through my heels. Pleasantly surprising as it wasn’t a conscious process at all (although at this point knowing how feldenkrais works, it probably shouldn’t be surprising anymore 😄). Very curious to see how this will carry on through to my daily walking and standing.