podcast – kinesophics
Summary: An archive of Feldenkrais Awareness Through Movement lessons with Lynette Reid from Halifax NS
- Visit Website
- RSS
- Artist: podcast – kinesophics
- Copyright: Creative Commons Share and Share Alike, Non-Profit
Podcasts:
Well, this is a weird idea of what to do with your head. You’ll glide around the room with a long neck and everything below will feel very well-oiled, as long as you don’t try too hard. For those following sources at home, this is mostly AY 6, though you’ll see some ideas that aren’t … Continue reading "Turning the head around its circumference and in the center"
We’re thinking about Theo Jansen’s wonderful Strandbeests, and how ‘stupid’ the knees are. They don’t need any sophistical neurological control. They just have to unfold at the right moment and be there for the weight of the body to pass over them. How do you let your leg unfold? This version is AY 117, by … Continue reading "Frog’s Legs"
The first lesson of our new Sept – Oct 2013 series: a gentle twisting movement on your side. Some of my comments suggest that you might do the second side (as you go from side to side) in your imagination. This is always a good option when you can’t follow the instructions without pain. It’s … Continue reading "Somewhere in your back…"
You could say there’s a hierarchy of degrees of conscious control in ourselves–our fingers and mouths the most consciously controlled; our legs less so, carrying us along without much thought wherever we want to go. And our breathing, even more so, takes care of itself while we’re doing other things. We’ll reverse that a bit … Continue reading "Lying on the feet turned in, while breathing rhythmically"
Intimately connected to the rotation at the knee of the two bones of the lower leg, we find a new dimension of freedom in the hip joint and an unusual folding of the ankle. This the second of a four-lesson series recovering what are for many people long-forgotten knee functions.
Here we’re sensing how we use our knees–how we support ourselves from the floor–with a few new pelvic clock variations.
Lying face down, can your head wave from side to side like a reed in the wind? Where is your stable point connecting to the floor? For those keeping track at home, this started out as AY 549, which for some reason has the title “lifting the pubic bone,” and then wandered considerably based on … Continue reading "Face down, lift head with free spine"
It’s all very simple, but in another orientation and configuration, it may feel like a challenge! Take as many rests for your wrists as you need.
Remember all that toe-bending a couple of weeks ago? Coming back to the same basic position, we start to see what we can accomplish with the foot we aren’t holding.
Things got a little crazy on Charles Street on Wednesday. Make a circle with your arms, hands interlaced, and now try to lace your legs through this. We didn’t quite get to the point of skipping rope with our own bodies as the skipping-rope. Maybe we’ll do that next week.
You have a lovely set of twistable floating ribs…I know you do…. Let’s see if we can smoke them out, and change the way you organize the use of your legs at the same time.
This will take your shoulders to new places. Your neck just might notice the change. This is AY 374 for those keeping track at home!
There are a lot of hidden gems in this very simple idea of lying on your back with standing legs and lifting your pelvis…give it a try and see if your back doesn’t get much longer and easier, your arms lighter and more free, your breathing deeper. Go easy to find those gems! Based on … Continue reading "Head and Pelvis"
Probably the most neglected function in modern life is extension–lifting the head to look up, reaching up to touch something overhead. We live in an environment carefully designed to obviate the need ever to do this. And every day we forget more and more what geniuses we were to be able to use our spines … Continue reading "Extensors with a twist"
Harness the power of the pelvis to support your upper limbs — with some twists, bends, and an intriguing mystery with the toes. I’ll try to figure out what all those crunchy noise are and stop them. I think it’s a hair-microphone thing. (This is AY 440.)