Each day we feature one freely offered lesson and one for our Patrons. It’s like dropping into a Feldenkrais class!
Freely offered
Side-lying, using a reference movement of the arm standing like a periscope. This lesson softens, mobilizes, and integrates the use of the chest and shoulders.
For our Patrons
Mostly side-lying. Refining our awareness and skill for the many ways we can gather the front of the body together (folding) and also lengthen it (arching), including very fine work with the spine, sternum (breastbone), and shoulders. Integration of breathing with these ideas. Experiments at the end of the lesson turn these primary functions into rolling.
Feldenkrais newcomers: Please work through the short talks and lessons of our Getting Oriented collection before using this page.
Today’s Lessons are the same for everyone each day. If you want someone to try a lesson above, share this page today! Use the social buttons near the bottom of the page. Also:
- Bookmark this page in your browser or add it to your device’s home screen.
- Try a Feldenkrais journal to track your curiosities and ideas, or note lessons for later (you can search titles here).
- Excited about today’s lesson? Or you happen to have done it recently? Click its Context or Related Lessons tab and follow your curiosity to another lesson.
- Patrons: No need to login before you click “Go to lesson”. We’ll prompt you then.
Come back often. This page isn’t just for folks with choice fatigue — it’s also a learning strategy. Studying a wide variety of lessons you might not have chosen for yourself is a very good way to practice Feldenkrais. You might benefit from not thinking too much about the title or description.
Today’s Lessons will always be of general interest, appropriate and useful for anyone who’s familiar with Feldenkrais study. They won’t be our most difficult lessons, or lessons with prerequisites. Those should be studied in context in our collections and Deep Dives.
Today’s Lessons are randomly chosen around midnight, US Central time.
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