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About Comments

To join the discussion, please leave public comments on the lesson and collection pages to share your experience and ask questions. Nick and other listeners can read and respond, and you can opt-in to be notified by email if they do. When ideas coalesce we turn them into improvements for lesson notes and future content.

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6 Comments

  1. Nick Strauss-Klein on February 15, 2019 at 12:41 pm

    General questions about Notes and Comments? Leave a comment here to ask! If about a specific lesson, please navigate to that page and leave a comment there.

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  2. Karen Glennemeier on November 12, 2020 at 11:01 am

    Hi there. I am absolutely loving your lessons and look forward to them every day. I’m a runner and was wondering if you have any lessons that are specific to lengthening and loosening the hamstrings. I don’t see anything with the search option and thought I would ask.
    Thanks so much!
    Karen Glennemeier

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    • Nick Strauss-Klein on November 12, 2020 at 11:25 am

      Thanks for your question, and for your support! I appreciate that you didn’t say “stretching” the hamstrings, but instead “lengthening and loosening.” I’m a runner too. What we’re looking to learn is more slack when they’re not engaged, more clarity and power when they are. This means more control, differentiation, agility, and total variability in the muscle tonus. We go about this in what may seem like non-traditional ways. These lessons should help develop awareness and control:

      Among our free lessons, of course work through our Lessons for Standing, Walking, and Running. Particularly useful may be Folding, Foundation, and Feet, and The Buttocks. From Learning the Limbs, try Connecting the Shoulders and Hips (end of Part 1 and into Part 2 is most direct gait work), and More Precise Hips and Spine.

      But the most applicable lessons may be among our Patrons-only collection: Moving Your Head and Legs Backward, Buttocks Organizing the Spine, Advanced Folding, Nodding into Lengthening the Heels, and maybe Dynamic Diagonal Lengthening.

      Let me know how it goes!

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      • Karen Glennemeier on November 17, 2020 at 9:13 pm

        I can’t remember if I replied to say thanks. If not, thanks! I’m working through your suggestions and will let you know how it goes.

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  3. Suyapa Sagastume on November 15, 2020 at 1:01 pm

    Soy maestra y quiero dar clases de español. Cómo puedo integrarme al programa?

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    • Nick Strauss-Klein on December 13, 2020 at 12:33 pm

      ¿Estás solicitando lecciones de Feldenkrais en español? ¿O está preguntando acerca de unirse al Proyecto Feldenkrais? ¿O cómo convertirse en un practicante profesional de Feldenkrais? Perdón por mi uso del Traductor de Google.

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