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Easier Sitting Workshop Lesson 2
Previously known as: Driving and Dynamic Sitting Workshop Lesson 2
Chair-seated. This brief lesson directly follows up on the previous one and is intended to be explored after a short break, after doing the prerequisite lesson, Easier Sitting Workshop Lesson 1. Turning relationships of the head, eyes, chest, pelvis, knees, and sitbones are explored, using imagery of sitting in the driver's seat.
This lesson uses the same chair configuration described in Easier Sitting Workshop Lesson 1.
Sometime after completing this lesson, check out our Easier Sitting Workshop Principles page. This written material was emailed to participants after the workshop.
I cut a brief portion near the end of this recording that just didn’t quite make sense for home study, but one detail I cut is useful: if you’re struggling with the “bucket” seats of modern vehicles, I talked about a product I use to deal with that problem which I recommend to many of my students, the Yogaback. (I have no promotional relationship with this business. I just love the product!)
For reference again, here are the illustrations workshop participants had in hand:
Here’s an illustration from Alexander Technique London to help you find your sitbones! Click on it to visit and read a post I can recommend called “Stand on your bottom, what?!”. Sometimes people are surprised by how relatively close to their midline the sitbones are.
This lesson is found in our Easier Sitting collection. Please visit the collection page to find the brief talks and prerequisite lesson.
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- Comfort & Configuration
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This lesson uses the same chair configuration described in Easier Sitting Workshop Lesson 1.
- Curiosities
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Sometime after completing this lesson, check out our Easier Sitting Workshop Principles page. This written material was emailed to participants after the workshop.
I cut a brief portion near the end of this recording that just didn’t quite make sense for home study, but one detail I cut is useful: if you’re struggling with the “bucket” seats of modern vehicles, I talked about a product I use to deal with that problem which I recommend to many of my students, the Yogaback. (I have no promotional relationship with this business. I just love the product!)
For reference again, here are the illustrations workshop participants had in hand:
Here’s an illustration from Alexander Technique London to help you find your sitbones! Click on it to visit and read a post I can recommend called “Stand on your bottom, what?!”. Sometimes people are surprised by how relatively close to their midline the sitbones are.
- Context
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This lesson is found in our Easier Sitting collection. Please visit the collection page to find the brief talks and prerequisite lesson.
- Download
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- Source
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Members and Patrons only. Please login or join the Project to view Nick’s comments about sources he used while developing this lesson.
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This is great workshop. Even though I have been doing some of these lessons in an isolated form over the years, this brought it all together. I discovered some bad habits had reimerged that I thought were gone. NOT. Thank you so much. I need to do this workshop regularly.
Dear Nick, Thank you for sharing the wonders of the Feldenkrais Method on this beautiful hompage!
I’ve just been doing the whole 85-minute workshop (tracks 1 to 4) and I think it’s fantastic! Nevertheless and despite frequent rests, I managed to end with lower back pain. I did use a proper chair and follow the instructions very closely and, as I’m conscious of several issues in my lower back (severe degenerative discpopathy L4-L5-S1 and sacroiliac joint dysfunction), my movements were really tiny. This was my first seated Feldenkrais class. I usually don’t get back pain when I do your lying-down classes. So, should I not do seated classes for the time being?
Perhaps for now you might not go right back to seated lessons, and play instead with lessons that focus on the hips and spine. Or if you do try seated again so, see if you can observe any sensations that seem related to the pain you had after the last one. Often our task is to refine our noticing of all the fine pre-pain signals, listening to subtler and subtler messages until they’re clear and we can change our behavior before we hurt. Another thought: have you tried Driving and Dynamic Sitting 1? It’s mostly floor-lying, with a little floor-seated work. Perhaps it will help you find and improve what was challenging you. Let me know how it goes!