Back-lying, one or both knees bent, tilting the knees and letting their weight twist, turn, and lengthen the body. Transferring weight. Broadening and clarifying the function and ease of the pelvis, hip joints, and lumbar. Learning to bend and straighten the legs with the freedom of a baby. Integrating this learning through the whole self, including the chest, shoulders, head, and eyes.
A course of Feldenkrais Awareness Through Movement (ATM) audio lessons. Each can be studied on its own, or you can work your way through the whole collection to learn in-depth how to better sense and organize your body to reduce pain and improve your posture, balance, mobility, and power.
Lessons can be repeated as you wish, so follow your curiosity! If a lesson isn’t comfortable initially, it’s fine to skip it and come back to it later; you don’t have to go through them in this order. When there’s a close link between adjacent lessons, it’s mentioned in the Context tab of the lesson notes.
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Dear Nick
I do like your Felden-lessons. The audio is good, that is how you get the lessons in classes. I also subscribe to Alfons on uTube, he is in Austria, I think. His classes are also good. I watch the lessons first then do the lesson. Thank you very much for allowing us out there to participate. Enjoy your coffee, Kolla
I just love the new website! I love that it makes it so easy to find the lessons. This was a terrific idea!
Thank you! Fun fact: this is the first comment left on the new site. Thanks for joining the discussion!
Just did the first lesson on the site Nick.
Thoroughly enjoyed it.
Gave a lesson last night that really encouraged shoulder awareness so derived much more pleasure as a result.
Great recording and website.
Will be joining.
In appreciation.
Phil Smith.
Australian practitioner.??
Thanks so much! Glad to hear you’re using and valuing the Project!
Thank you Nick. This website is excellent. I’ll be joining.
Silvia Raabe
Hi Nick, i like your ATMs as inspiring tools for my work, i really dived into them, enriching them with my own way of teaching, I appreciate your way of giving lessons, the clarity into it. Thanks very much for this, Silvia
Glad to hear it! Thanks, and please share them!
I love your instruction, Nick. It’s very helpful for me. I have chronic pain and chronic fatigue, so I do wish you had some shorter lessons. I feel like I do on overload after 40 minutes or so, but I also want to get the full effect of the lesson. Do you recommend breaking it into segments for different days? Or do you offer some lessons that are shorter? Thank you!
Yes to breaking longer lessons into segments. You can read about that on my FAQ page.
And yes, we have lots of shorter lessons now! Check out Getting Oriented. And Patrons can find a section of shorter lessons in Straight from Class (everyone can click through to see the names and descriptions). All our short lessons are between about 25 and 40 minutes long.
Do you have any lessons to be done while actually walking rather than in preparation for or in relation to walking?
Not at this time, but that’s a nice idea for the future! Meanwhile, to help connect our lessons directly to your walking experience, I recommend taking a walk at your own relaxed speed (pace not set by another person or walking a dog) shortly after any of the lessons in this series. You can also play games with speed and stride, alternating experiments like that with simply walking in a way that’s natural to the moment. Natural surfaces are great when available. Finally, check out my blog post which may be helpful: Reflections and Lessons: We Evolved for Easy Walking.