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Reaching Distinctions: Flexion or Extension? (Patrons)
The classic "Arms Like a Skeleton" lesson is the framework for a quiet exploration of functional options hidden in everyday actions. When you reach into the world, do you fold or arch (flex or extend)? How do the two sides of your body participate differently? What do you do with your neck? The answers depend on the situation, and a more supple thoracic area expands the possibilities. Eventually your Long Belly, Strong Back learning comes clearly into play.
On Attention: Feldenkrais, Spatial Self-Imaging, and the Open Focus Work of Dr. Les Fehmi
In this Little Dip Nick reflects on integrating his sabbatical studies on the nature of attention into his Feldenkrais teaching. Includes four Feldenkrais lessons that work with attention and spatial self-imaging in interesting ways. One is directly influenced by Dr. Les Fehmi's work.
Spinal Rotation, with Scapulas, Sacrum, and Spatial Self-Imaging (Patrons)
Explore small movements with big attention, and experience the benefits of spatial imagination. Cultivate subtle relationships of your scapulas and ribs, imagine the volume and movements of individual vertebrae, and discover that action can be generated from the root of your spine. Eventually hip joints join the fun as we connect spinal rotation to walking. Along the way, enjoy the unique neurological effects of imaging a spacious ease around your eyes and brow. Typical lesson benefits include melting rigidities of the spine, ribs, and shoulders, quieting the nervous system, and an easier, more open uprightness and attention.
Reaching Reorganized: Everything Everywhere All at Once (Patrons)
The "Arms Like a Skeleton" lesson becomes the framework of an ATM exploration designed to help you
- Review your Long Belly, Strong Back learning
- Feel the benefits of action generated globally throughout yourself
- Experience your ability to improvise Feldenkrais study
- Understand what open attention is, and how learning and improvement actually happen
A Guide to Our "Arms Like a Skeleton" Lessons
This Little Dip differentiates The FP's handful of versions of “Arms Like a Skeleton,” a Feldenkrais lesson genre about reaching into the world.
Guest Post: David Zemach-Bersin on Chronic Pain + Nick on Injury and Recovery
In this Little Dip Nick's Feldenkrais Trainer speaks on how Feldenkrais addresses chronic pain. Plus, Nick reflects on recovering from an injury and a month of pain, and shares lessons that helped him heal.
Essence for "Experts": Your Navigational Sternum and Pelvis (Patrons)
Expand on one of our most popular lessons as you learn to sense your sternum in action, using self-touch and a clarified image of a compass rose. Relax into riddles that integrate your sternum with familiar movements of Your Navigational Pelvis. Enjoy how this new suppleness of your chest improves your neck and spine, the function of your hips, and your relationship with the internal and external world.
Listener Interview: Reflections on Doing ALL Our Lessons + Nick's Favorite Workshop
In this Little Dip Nick reflects on contemplative practices and offers uplifting Feldenkrais lessons. A Patron describes the effects of deep study at The FP: "For me Feldenkrais is about building self-knowledge, self-esteem, self-trust, and self-empowerment."
Guest Post: Jen Strauss-Klein Compares Feldenkrais and an Ancient Tradition
In this Little Dip Nick's wife, a clergy person, describes their sabbatical study of a 1,000-year-old ethical tradition, touching on broader applications of the Feldenkrais Method than the ones we think of most often.
Effortless Legs and Hips (Patrons)
"The sensation of effort is the subjective feeling of wasted movement," wrote Moshe Feldenkrais, admitting that at first this idea sounds "utterly preposterous". This side-lying lesson probes his assertion by developing large movements of one foot sweeping along the floor while making precise distinctions between necessary muscular contractions and "effort." If you can resist trying hard, you'll find an esthetically pleasing dance of your whole self with benefits for uprightness, expansiveness, gait, and perhaps even the way you meet difficulty in regular life. See the Curiosities tab for more info.
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I love this new search. The choices of duration, challenge, position enable me to specify-for myself-what I want to do with myself today.
Hi Nick,
Having done a search, is it possible to “save” the result?
We haven’t considered that feature, but we do have something coming out for all our Members and Patrons very soon that should help: the ability to mark lessons as “saved” or “favorites”. [UPDATE: Done! Check out My Journey.]
Hello ☺️
I’m wondering if you could please help direct me to a particular lesson I did some time ago? It was a full length lesson, (I’m sure it was a freely available to all one) which involved a lot of lying prone, lifting the head and then torso by following eyes forward along the ground in front of me and gradually further up the wall – as if following a little bug! I seem to remember you saying! – lengthening up through the front of the body. The lesson also included some lying supine, folding up with hands clasped behind the head and elbows reaching to knees. I’ve searched under various headings such as flexors/extensors/prone but without success.
Thank you very much! I love your project it is a fantastic resource.
Thanks! I’m pretty sure you’re describing Basic Arching and Folding (Patrons). Our only free lesson that is prone is The Power of Prone: Twisting on Your Belly.
For better or worse, in aiming for accessibility I describe extension as “arching” and flexion as “folding.” For more related lessons, try those terms in the search above.
Oh, thanks very much Nick and I’ll have a look at all those possibilities. I think it is the Patrons Basic Arching and Folding actually, brilliant thank you.
Just wondering what would be the best exercise for tennis elbow if there is one. Thanks
I like movements of gentle rotation of the forearms, and mobilization of the scapulas, to free elbows of repetitive and specific tissue pressures. Explore lightly and softly, work asymmetrically whenever necessary to maximize comfort, and try Softening the Ribs or Anatomy in Action: Scapulas (Members & Patrons bonus video) or Rotating, Interlacing, and Integrating the Hands, into Palms Lengthening Overhead (Patrons). Do not apply any force; rather alter the lesson as necessary so the pleasant curiosities of exploration are the highest value, not interpreting every detail of the instructions “correctly.”