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Rolling to Sitting, and Beyond
How do we get off the floor? This lesson explores the path from lying on your back to sitting up, and getting back down again, organizing the torso and limbs towards a smoother, simpler, more pleasurable transition. These movements are also powerful organizers for improving upright posture.
- If you struggle with rolling because of vestibular difficulties such as vertigo, dizziness, or nausea, please proceed very cautiously. You might do some or much of the lesson in your imagination, or perhaps skip this lesson for now.
- This lesson requires a lot of floor space. Lying on your back and extending your arms fully out to the sides will show you the required space pretty well, though a little more than that is nice if possible.
- If you need head support for comfortable resting you should of course start with it. You may find as the lesson unfolds that you need or want less. Experiment!
- If you find difficulties that don’t ease as you get into the lesson, perhaps go back to the beginning of our Learning the Limbs, from the Center collection and get more familiar with the two Connecting Shoulders and Hips lessons, then return to this lesson.
This lesson can help to make a direct connection from all our Feldenkrais studies on the floor up into our upright lives. It’s lovely to move through the different positions and relationships with gravity that life requires of us easily and gracefully. Here’s a chance to practice. Please continue to explore the how of your day-to-day transitions between lying, sitting, and standing. Any of them can become a mini ATM lesson, given a little time and curiosity.
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. It particularly benefits from familiarity with the Connecting Hips and Shoulders lessons that precede it.
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- If you struggle with rolling because of vestibular difficulties such as vertigo, dizziness, or nausea, please proceed very cautiously. You might do some or much of the lesson in your imagination, or perhaps skip this lesson for now.
- This lesson requires a lot of floor space. Lying on your back and extending your arms fully out to the sides will show you the required space pretty well, though a little more than that is nice if possible.
- If you need head support for comfortable resting you should of course start with it. You may find as the lesson unfolds that you need or want less. Experiment!
- If you find difficulties that don’t ease as you get into the lesson, perhaps go back to the beginning of our Learning the Limbs, from the Center collection and get more familiar with the two Connecting Shoulders and Hips lessons, then return to this lesson.
- Curiosities
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This lesson can help to make a direct connection from all our Feldenkrais studies on the floor up into our upright lives. It’s lovely to move through the different positions and relationships with gravity that life requires of us easily and gracefully. Here’s a chance to practice. Please continue to explore the how of your day-to-day transitions between lying, sitting, and standing. Any of them can become a mini ATM lesson, given a little time and curiosity.
- 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. It particularly benefits from familiarity with the Connecting Hips and Shoulders lessons that precede it.
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OMG the “Oye Vay Position” had me laughing so hard I eventually (after I could stop laughing) had to get up and “rewind” the mp3 because I had missed the directions that followed! I will forever refer to you and your description when teaching this lesson – thank you!
Yay! It’s so lovely when imagery connects and adds to the joy of study! Thanks for sharing.