Study tip: Complete one movement before beginning the next. You’ll improve faster if there’s enough time between movements that you feel fully at rest.
The Hip Joints: Moving Proximal Around Distal
Back-lying, knees bent, feet standing, often one leg resting out to the side on a pillow. Learning to move the whole self (proximal) in relationship to a quietly resting limb (distal). This reversal of the typical image we have of moving a limb creates a novel learning environment within the self, with benefits for the legs, hips, back, and our overall organization. Sitting on the floor at the beginning and end of the lesson is used to help identify some of the changes that take place.
For this lesson have one or two bed pillows or sofa cushions nearby. For most people pillows available at home work better than the props mentioned in the recording from the classroom where the recording was made (folded blankets, rollers, yoga blocks).
You can even simply lean the passive knee against a nearby piece of furniture, so long as that’s comfortable!
Curious about “proximal” and “distal”? These terms are talked about in the recording. You can also read about them in the Curiosities tab for the first lesson in this collection, Connecting Hips and Shoulders Part 1.
This lesson is found in the collection called Learning the Limbs, from the Center.
Like most of our lessons, this one can be studied out of context, but you may find additional learning value by approaching it in the order of the collection it’s in.
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For this lesson have one or two bed pillows or sofa cushions nearby. For most people pillows available at home work better than the props mentioned in the recording from the classroom where the recording was made (folded blankets, rollers, yoga blocks).
You can even simply lean the passive knee against a nearby piece of furniture, so long as that’s comfortable!
- Curiosities
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Curious about “proximal” and “distal”? These terms are talked about in the recording. You can also read about them in the Curiosities tab for the first lesson in this collection, Connecting Hips and Shoulders Part 1.
- Context
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This lesson is found in the collection called Learning the Limbs, from the Center.
Like most of our lessons, this one can be studied out of context, but you may find additional learning value by approaching it in the order of the collection it’s in.
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5 Comments. Leave new
What a wonderful lesson! So interesting moving the pelvis in so many directions around the head of the femur. Having one leg totally relaxed helped a lot! One aspect that I added for myself, that I found helpful, was having a smooth belly or even bringing the belly forward in certain positions.
Thank you very much for this lesson!
Stephanie
Great ending to a long walk. Feel a loosening if my hips.
Noticed new ATM the second time around.
Thank you, Nick!
I think this is a terrific ATM. I’ve done it twice now, each time I get something new. Thank you very much, Nick! Blessings, Lauri
Fantastic. Never had a smoother easier pelvic clock- at the end. A keeper
I have been dealing with the impact of double frozen shoulder for over a year now. I have been doing various kinds of Feldenkrais and myofascial release, all of which helped tremendously. However, there was a particular range of motion I could never regain, no matter what I seem to do. Two days after this lesson, something just changed, and a huge chunk of range returned to me. I am almost completely back to normal, and I know if I just keep exploring this beautiful site, I will extend the experience of my body and being beyond what I call “normal.”