Difficulty: Average Challenge

60m

Arms Like a Skeleton, Integrating the Neck, Jaw, and Eyes (Patrons)

Find new options for ease in your neck, jaw, and eyes in relationship to reaching movements of your arms, shoulders, and chest. Great for reducing tension and improving posture, particularly carriage of the head, neck, and shoulders.
April 7, 2022
54m

Spatial Relationships as a Means to Coordinated Action (Patrons)

Floor-seated, with back-lying rests. Can be altered to chair-seated. Guided asymmetrical attention and imagination tasks are applied to symmetrical movements, leading to a powerful demonstration of your neuroplastic ability to change and improve perception and action based simply on what you pay attention to. Includes broader discussion of individuated vs. in-common patterns of human action.
March 10, 2022
58m

Secrets of the Seated Twist

Side-sitting, back-lying, and side-lying. Beginning and ending with classic Feldenkrais explorations of twisting while side-sitting on the floor, this lesson is designed to make side-sitting more accessible, and to free your torso and hips. Alterations – including chair-seated – are discussed, and long lying down portions of the lesson reveal how folding and arching can improve turning and twisting.
January 7, 2022
60m

Freeing the Shoulders by Rolling the Arms (Patrons)

Mostly back-lying, arms in a "letter T" position. Improving the function and mobility of the shoulders by connecting them more skillfully with the chest, spine, and head. Particular attention is given to the neck and to the spine between the shoulder blades.
December 6, 2021
58m

Finding Sensations of Not Shortening (Patrons)

Side-lying and front-lying with optional rolling, framed by brief standing explorations. Movement riddles for the chest, shoulders, neck, spine, and legs are presented in a focused context of lengthening. Uses sensory images of the five cardinal lines of the body, breathing, organizing the “core,” and expanding into the support surface to create opportunities to sense and inhibit unnecessary shortening. Begins with a summary of what we're exploring.
November 19, 2021
58m

The Power of Prone: Twisting on Your Belly

Designed to be as accessible as possible, this lesson uses frequent back-lying rests and auxiliary movements to help listeners find more comfort, ease, and learning value while prone. Moving with awareness while lying on your belly can lead to unique benefits for the spine, chest, shoulders, and neck, as well as improvements for posture and breathing.
September 10, 2021
60m

Dynamic Balance: Stability Through Suppleness (Patrons)

Framed by brief explorations in standing, this mostly side-lying lesson presents gently de-stabilizing movements of the head and legs to help you explore and improve your balance in a supple, whole-self way.
May 26, 2021
57m

Rib Basket, Shoulder Cloak (Patrons)

Framed by brief standing explorations of breathing and walking, this mostly back-lying lesson is designed to improve differentiation of the ribs and shoulders, and to improve their integration with functional movements of the arms, legs, hips, spine, and head. Uses a fascinating constraint of precisely relating the scapulas to the plane of the floor.
March 25, 2021
58m

Sensing Stability: The Sacral Clock (Patrons)

Framed with explorations of dynamic stability in standing, this back-lying lesson is a play on Moshe Feldenkrais' most famous movement image, the pelvic clock. Small movements in unusual configurations of the legs create a precise, gentle challenge designed to promote stability, awareness, and function for the sacrum, sitbones, hip joints, pubic symphysis, and lower back - along with everything else.
February 19, 2021
58m

Side-Bending with Listening Hands, Connecting Legs and Head (Patrons)

Side-lying. Using your own soft, listening hands to help integrate your head, hips, and legs with an increased awareness and suppleness of your ribs.
January 21, 2021