Optional prerequisite: Supple Twisting. See the Context notes for info.
Back-lying. It’s the chest-melting, Twisted Lamprey lesson, with an extra emphasis on axial details. Framed by standing explorations of your primary bias.
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Comfort & Configuration:
Unless you’re an experienced Felden-fan, Supple Twisting is recommended before this lesson. Its Comfort & Configuration notes are all applicable. The short version:
- Use friction under the standing foot as needed.
- Comfort first! Don’t get attached to tilting your knees a long distance, or the idea that that range must get bigger during the lesson. It may be that as the lesson proceeds you choose a smaller tilt, and more refined listening, in setting up the knees tilted constraint.
If needed for comfort, it is possible to explore some or all of this lesson with both feet standing on the floor (instead of crossing your legs) and the knees simply tilted to the side described for the crossed legs. This is done once in the lesson, as an example.
Feel free to pause the recording as needed for longer rests.
Curiosities:
The legs-crossed, tilting (or sustained tilted) configuration is not about flexibility, though that will likely improve. It’s about the learning opportunities that can be created elsewhere while in this constraining configuration.
ATM lessons often use what Feldenkrais Practitioners call “constraints”: configurations or instructions which prevent some movement possibilities and require you to learn others.
Context:
Part of our Bonus Video Content for all donors, this lesson was recorded in The FP Weekly Pay-What-You-Can Zoom Class early in the pandemic on March 31, 2020. It’s a reteaching of Twisted Lamprey with a standing frame of primary bias exploration, and a different tone and emphasis.
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