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Recorded live in a Feldenkrais Awareness Through Movement (ATM) class, the lesson below is copyright Nick Strauss-Klein, for personal use only. This and all our audio lessons are 100% donor-supported. Read this before you begin for practical tips and your responsibilities, and check out Comfort & Configuration below. Click the other lesson note tabs if you’re curious.
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I did this lesson after a day of driving through three States and am grateful for your generous sharing of it. I’m feeling the constraints of sitting seat-belted (even with the most wonderful YogaBack support) melting away. Thank you!
Wonderful lesson – thank you for bringing our attention to the work of Chevah. Blessings!
This lesson justs get better and better with repetition. The vitality of the torso that it creates feels like a wonderful warm glow. Quite something for someone, like me, who just cannot do core work with Pilates! Many thanks
You’re welcome! Lovely to hear. I agree professionally and personally: repeating a lesson is only a matter of studying the same recording or text again, but the learning never repeats, and just gets better! We’re always meeting the lesson from a new moment, a different present self.
left me with a sense of joyful readiness… lovely. thank you.
You are an artist Nick. I felt you caught up in the web of your own words, releasing the essence of the movements they dictated
It’s Nice way to be aware of my body structure .
It is a big help to feel fit ,special for my age ( 74)
Thanks so much Nick. !!
with love
Hara
I can’t thank you enough for this fabulous lesson. After caring for my terminally ill mother for 7 months, not to mention the pandemic, my body has felt like one big knot of stress and tension. Since Mum passed away just over 2 weeks ago, aged 89, I have been doing one of your classes most days and gradually the knots are unraveling and I’m sleeping better. I particularly enjoyed this lessen and loved the feelings of movement and release it created. Thank you for your generosity in sharing this wonderful resource.
It is my pleasure. So sorry to hear about your mother, and honored to be part of your process these weeks. Feldenkrais is indeed a welcome balm in grief – I have felt this personally.
A very potent release, thank you. When I first laid down I could feel pain in my right hip, by half way through the class it had gone! I also felt my jaw tension release as my hips and shoulders released. Again Nick, you paint so well with words and bring a fun, light and compassionate energy to the class helping us to love all of ourselves as we are 🙂
Very delightful continuation of previous lesson (Connecting Hips and Shoulders 1) which left me wanting more because it was so good! Nearing the end, fantastic stretch in right hip when moving bent knee forward while rolling hip backward (and vice versa), especially when paired with sweeping arm overhead forward and backward. I have started doing these lessons from the Feldenkrais Project multiple times a week and am quickly feeling improvement in all sorts of ‘stuck’ areas of my body. Thanks Nick!
My pleasure, literally! I love these lessons, too. So pleased you’re diving in and finding improvement. Thanks for commenting on this and Part 1.