Difficulty: More Challenging

59m

Long Belly, Long Back, Psoas to Lengthen and Lighten a Leg (Patrons)

Lengthen your abdomen, spine, and legs through specific coordinated engagement of the hip flexors and waist, and discover easier upright posture and lighter, more powerful legs for walking and running. Along the way you'll integrate your scapulas and ribs, and explore new options for your spine and the carriage of your head.
December 18, 2025
58m

Pelvis Lifting and Rotating on Its Axis, Part 2 (Patrons)

After a visual demonstration (in the Curiosities tab) and a review of rolling vs. rotating, you'll dive deeper into more intricate and athletic variations of lifting the pelvis and rotating it on its axis, all toward softening your thoracic and reorganizing your torso and hips. As always, ability develops through improved awareness, proper distribution of effort, breathing and suppleness, and the precise use of the support surface – never strain.
July 1, 2025
60m

Pelvis Lifting and Rotating on Its Axis, Part 1 (Patrons)

Unlock profound ease for your chest, spine, and hips in this challenging and rewarding Moshe Feldenkrais original. To develop an image for the unusual movements of your pelvis you'll first get to know the difference between rolling and rotating your head. Framed by brief reference movements in floor- or chair-seated as spatial presence is explored.
June 30, 2025
32m

Head Under the Gap, Supine: Workshop/Review Version (Patrons)

Designed to clarify and distribute the image of arching and turning your whole self after you've explored the Long Belly, Strong Back lesson. Explore the unusual support of a bridged hand and its fascinating extension implications for your scapulas, shoulder girdle, ribs, and neck. Great for posture, breath, athletics, confidence, and groundedness.
January 1, 2025
46m

Turning from a Spacious Center, Connecting Torso and Legs (Patrons)

While cultivating an almost meditative awareness of breath and spaciousness in the tanden (lower abdomen), you'll explore fascinating side-lying movements: one hand is on your knee or shin as you organize your legs, hips, pelvis, torso, and head in curious actions of folding, arching, rolling, and twisting. Discover powerful, flexible legs and easy, confident upright action. As one participant said, perhaps you'll find your "hips are really ready for the Olympic games...."
August 14, 2024
60m

Spiraling into Circling the Arm Under (Patrons)

First we review the lesson called A Spiral of Length and Power, then we explore a riddle in the realm of “making the impossible, possible”: from lying on your back, one knee bent, foot engaged to turn you onto your side, how can you become supple enough to learn to circle the arm you’re lying on under your body? Adaptations, kindness, and patience are in the foreground, leading to wonderful new freedoms in your shoulders, ribs, spine, neck, posture, and day-to-day function. At the end, an exploration of simpler actions reinforces your learning – even if you couldn't “do” the whole lesson yet.
July 31, 2024
59m

Joyful Lifted Rolling (Patrons)

Starts with an exploration of grounding in standing. Then very simple side-lying movements gradually expand toward rolling. You'll learn to extend and gather the limbs on one side of your body, then the other, as you coordinate larger rolls with increasingly skillful control of your flexors and extensors. All this creates a profoundly lighter sense of your body and mind. Starts with a two-minute talk reviewing the major principles of grounding for liftoff.
February 29, 2024
58m

What Is Good Posture? (Patrons)

Standing, chair-seated, and transitioning between. Experience for yourself Moshe Feldenkrais's three-part answer to his lesson title: 1) Good posture is synonymous with the greatest potential for action. 2) Whether we're standing, sitting, or anywhere in between, in good posture our bones (not our muscles) must continuously counteract gravity, leaving our musculature free for action. 3) Posture improves spontaneously when we eliminate superfluous efforts in the sit-stand-sit transition, as we become more sensitive to the physics and neurology of that function. A 5-minute talk begins the recording.
August 31, 2023
61m

Sliding the Sternum, Integrating the Neck, Shoulders, and Chest (Patrons)

Side-lying. Gentle movements of lifting the head and looking toward the floor are used to integrate the eyes, neck, shoulders, chest, spine, and pelvis in increasingly sophisticated movements. Later, learn to differentiate the sternum and soften the chest further by maneuvering your sternum and ribs with your fingers.
February 16, 2023
59m

Dynamic Balance: Coordinates of the Head (Patrons)

Back, front, and side-lying, framed by explorations of dynamic balance in standing. Soften your chest, integrate your head, spine, and pelvis, and improve your balance, posture, and breathing by learning to circle your head in your hands in many lying down configurations.
December 16, 2022