Rolling and Hips Like a Baby (Patrons)

Back-lying. Free your hips, shoulders, chest, and back as you explore rolling and weight shifting. Designed to help you add suppleness to your movements, expand your mental image of rolling in internal and external ways, and peek into the developmental neurological value of rolling and the substantial improvements available to most adults.

Before you begin read this for practical tips and your responsibilities, and check out Comfort & Configuration below.

Recorded live in a Feldenkrais Awareness Through Movement (ATM) class, this lesson is copyright Nick Strauss-Klein, for personal use only.

Tip 3 – Head Support

Study tip: It helps to have a large bath towel nearby when you start a lesson. You can fold it differently for comfortable head support in any configuration.

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Emphasized later in the lesson but true from the beginning, too: whether you’re lying with legs long, knees bent, or knees over your chest, always allow some comfortable space between your legs. They never need to be held close together in any back-lying position in this lesson.

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11 Comments

  1. c j on August 14, 2020 at 3:13 am

    Wow, what a wonderful lesson. Thanks Nick

  2. Chris Sigurdson on August 14, 2020 at 9:18 am

    I’ve been away from lessons for awhile. Busy with other physical activities. Your message intrigued me and I did this one. It was exactly what I needed to integrate and relax all my recent muscle activity. So totally pleasant and fluid. My new go to lesson. Thanks.

  3. Hazel Rudich on August 14, 2020 at 1:54 pm

    Many sensations reminding me of decades ago in my crib. Lovely lesson

  4. chris andersen on August 16, 2020 at 12:02 pm

    Super soothing. Just the pleasure I needed after a lousy night of sleep. Very grateful for this huge support in my life.

  5. Mila on September 20, 2020 at 12:14 am

    Wonderful lesson! Can’t wipe the grin off my face as I enjoyed myself so much. Thanks, Nick.

  6. Cheryl Mahin on September 21, 2020 at 9:59 am

    I’ve been outside and away from Feldenkrais . Appreciated the mindfulness it requires to follow the movements and to imagine them. Thanks Nick

  7. Lauri Dippel on September 24, 2020 at 10:41 am

    Hi Nick – This one is terrific, as usual- and a lot of fun! A perfect companion to
    “Legs As Free As A Baby’s” . Thanks for the great work!

  8. cyntia gaido on February 17, 2022 at 12:30 pm

    Beautiful lesson!! The rolling of the head, the shoulders, the pelvis, the hips, the spine, playing with gravity sensing the body as one throw the movement. Thank you very much.

  9. Katherine Wheeler on December 26, 2022 at 4:24 pm

    Another wonderful lesson. I always come away feeling like I’ve had a full body massage. The fibromyalgia takes a backseat and I get on with my life. Thank you so much for guiding me into using my body and mind to allow myself to heal, reset and rebalance. Life changing.

  10. Melo Brophy on August 26, 2024 at 7:06 pm

    The beginning of this lesson, rolling the legs and the arms and the head… and then simply asking how can I roll myself like a baby creating the same quality of sensation was an “aha”. It re-organized me, and rolling like a baby felt like a leaf blowing in the wind, lightly, swirling, gently landing.

  11. Judith on October 27, 2024 at 10:05 pm

    Beyond wonderful. Someone said “delicious” . . . absolutely. Ready for sleep. Thank you so much.

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