podcast – kinesophics

A subtle coordination of the head and spine to support the bending of the leg--it just may put a spring in your step in the middle of winter (for those of us in the Northern hemisphere, that is!). You may want to have a few flat, firm cushions or flat, folded towels for under your head as you lie on the side. Depending on the organization of your spine, shoulders, and neck, you may be able to do it without. If your neck is strained, that's an extra barrier to feeling the dynamic connection with your pelvis and legs.

A subtle coordination of the head and spine to support the bending of the leg--it just may put a spring in your step in the middle of winter (for those of us in the Northern hemisphere, that is!). You may want to have a few flat, firm cushions or flat, folded towels for under your head as you lie on the side. Depending on the organization of your spine, shoulders, and neck, you may be able to do it without. If your neck is strained, that's an extra barrier to feeling the dynamic connection with your pelvis and legs.

The "dead bird" is a classic lesson. The image refers to the way you hang the arm in front of the face, at eye level or a little lower--with the wrist limp, like a dead bird's wing. I was listening to Moshe teaching it at Amherst. He says, maybe it's an intelligent bird's wing. Not a bird mindlessly using energy or effort to hold the wrist stiff...

The "dead bird" is a classic lesson. The image refers to the way you hang the arm in front of the face, at eye level or a little lower--with the wrist limp, like a dead bird's wing. I was listening to Moshe teaching it at Amherst. He says, maybe it's an intelligent bird's wing. Not a bird mindlessly using energy or effort to hold the wrist stiff...

We spend a great deal of time concerned with the contents of our head--but its physicality? Its shape, size? What we can sense with sensory nerves and what we can "map" in our self-image? The space the brain rests inside? And how can it possibly transform action and feel so much just to pay attention to these things?

We spend a great deal of time concerned with the contents of our head--but its physicality? Its shape, size? What we can sense with sensory nerves and what we can "map" in our self-image? The space the brain rests inside? And how can it possibly transform action and feel so much just to pay attention to these things?

We can go our whole lives without realizing there's some subtle movement of the ankle or use of the sole of our feet that has become a blind spot to us, unavailable. Then we buy orthotics or fuss about the right shoe to push our feet around in certain ways. Try improving your ability with your feet! Sneak preview: we've working on the ankle-neck relationship this week and next.

We can go our whole lives without realizing there's some subtle movement of the ankle or use of the sole of our feet that has become a blind spot to us, unavailable. Then we buy orthotics or fuss about the right shoe to push our feet around in certain ways. Try improving your ability with your feet! Sneak preview: we've working on the ankle-neck relationship this week and next.

It doesn't get more "core" than how you organize yourself to use all the nuances and shades of potential action that your pelvis can generate and support. This classic pelvic clock lesson is an essential exploration you can return to again and again.

It doesn't get more "core" than how you organize yourself to use all the nuances and shades of potential action that your pelvis can generate and support. This classic pelvic clock lesson is an essential exploration you can return to again and again.

Drawn from the Awareness Through Movement book, this lesson explores and differentiates the "mechanisms" you use to breathe. Ribs and sternum lifting and subsiding, diaphragm tightening to lower and then returning to its high resting dome. And then shall we turn everything upside down?

Drawn from the Awareness Through Movement book, this lesson explores and differentiates the "mechanisms" you use to breathe. Ribs and sternum lifting and subsiding, diaphragm tightening to lower and then returning to its high resting dome. And then shall we turn everything upside down?

Feldenkrais had a general idea about "efficient action"--that you would use all the musculature proportionately to its mass/size. More work in the large, central (proximal) muscles, light refinement from the distal muscles. This lesson explores that fundamental idea.

Feldenkrais had a general idea about "efficient action"--that you would use all the musculature proportionately to its mass/size. More work in the large, central (proximal) muscles, light refinement from the distal muscles. This lesson explores that fundamental idea.

After a slow season, lessons are beginning again. Here's something quiet, introspective--just a little lifting of a shoulder here, a hip there, a head from time to time. And the basic "directions" that structure the image of the action, while we're at it.