December 22, 2024 /

An expansion of Lengthen the Arms, Freeing the Scapulas (33m, Patrons), which can be studied for review.

Back-lying. Beginning with a brief illustrated talk, this gentle ATM lesson is designed to melt tension, reduce pain, and improve mobility for your neck, shoulders, arms, spine, and chest by developing awareness and integration of healthy scapular function. Along the way you’ll reclaim easier upwards reaching, and improve your uprightness too!

 

 

 

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Comfort & Configuration:

It’s helpful in this lesson to use the minimum head support you need for comfort, and as always it should be smooth so your head is free to move. You may find you want even less head support as the lesson progresses.

 

Clarification:

Probably obvious, but I meant “spine” when I said your neck is connected to your ribs.

 

Context:

Now part of our Bonus Video Content for all donors, this lesson was recorded in The FP Weekly Pay-What-You-Can Zoom Class on January 2, 2024.

 

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3 Comments

  1. Nick Strauss-Klein on December 22, 2024 at 8:52 am

    Discussion and Zoom chats after class included some great wisdom from students:

    I loved having the visual at the beginning, because I really had an anchor for at the end of the lesson, when I felt my arms hanging down in an almost ape-like manner. I’ve been having some shoulder pain lately, and I think the muscles released in a way that was very satisfying!

    My ribcage was more forward and lifted, allowing my arms to hang freely. So different than pushing my shoulders back, which makes me hyperextend in my lumbar.

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  2. Sara on December 26, 2024 at 7:48 am

    What an incredible journey into how the position of the scapulae can either hinder or enable wonderful movements of neck/head, arms and spine. I am discovering I think that my neck is often twisted slightly to one side and that explorations like this are helping my body to learn that this need not be so!

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  3. Muriel Soriano on January 5, 2025 at 2:53 pm

    Thank you so much Nick for this really interesting lesson. The video before the lesson showing, the mechanics of the shoulder and shoulder blade, was really helpful. I’d been suffering with painfully stiff shoulders and neck for the last three day, and, as always, Feldenkrais wove its magic: pain gone and arms so much looser!
    Thank you. Muriel

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