Little Dips
Little Dip: What Action Is Good? Feldenkrais’s Answer
This question is Moshe Feldenkrais’s title for lesson #2 in his book Awareness Through Movement, which he wrote to introduce his method to the masses. His answer is multi-faceted, fascinating, and worth studying intellectually and experientially.
Little Dip: “Use your glutes!” they say. But how?
We’ve all heard it before, but simply flexing your buttocks more vigorously doesn’t always help the movement and postural problems its supposed to. And we often forget about them the moment we stop trying to use them consciously. Between the size and power of the buttocks, and our cultural-social-sexual issues around them, it’s almost like we stereotype them as big dumb engines for the body…at best. At worst we actively ignore them, or even feel ashamed of them.
Little Dip: Reflection and Lessons – We Evolved for Easy Walking
We evolved to enjoy our whole self moving harmoniously, using the suppleness of our chest and torsos – integrated with our legs – to carry us around for miles a day with grace and ease. But our cultural environment makes it hard to claim this birthright.
Little Dip: What Is Good Posture? Feldenkrais’s Answer
This question is Moshe Feldenkrais’s title for lesson #1 in his book Awareness Through Movement, which he wrote to introduce his method to the masses. His answer from the lesson introduction is simple, precise, and probably not what you’d guess.
Little Dip: On Freedom…and Aging
In Feldenkrais study we discover that we can question our experience, and liberate ourselves from our own compulsive behaviors. Through self-education we learn how to escape habits that cause suffering in us, or in those around us. It also helps us adapt in a healthy, graceful way to what aging is doing to us.
Little Dip: Dynamic Sitting and Driving – Featured Lessons and Article
Learn to sit with more skill, vitality, and ease through Feldenkrais study and Nick’s article called Building Better Sitting Habits, Even in Your Car.
Little Dip: On Balance, “Losing” It, and Recovering
Balancing – or relating skillfully to gravity – is the primary task the human brain evolved for. Take this in for a moment: almost nothing else is possible without first knowing which way is up, then using the support surface to become upright, and finally staying there reliably while we move and act in the world.
Little Dip: Spinal Support
Whichever you choose among these three very different lessons free lessons, you’re likely to enjoy easier uprightness, more effective action, improved comfort, and a clearer mind after you study.
Little Dip: Featured Listener – A young musician finds “a powerful sense of dignity” in our lessons
A note from Joe, a cellist and new Patron of the Feldenkrais Project, who’s enjoying “calm, freedom, and progress” through his studies.
Little Dip: Our Primary Spinal Bias – Featured Lessons and Listener Letter
Our spines do not function symmetrically. Knowing this, and harnessing your primary bias, is tremendously valuable in all human function