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Summary: An archive of Feldenkrais Awareness Through Movement lessons with Lynette Reid from Halifax NS

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 Turning on a side axis | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 44:40

Returning to our theme of turning on a dime, this lesson finds the relation between really standing, the freedom of the head, and the freedom to turn. Heavily but not completely edited to remove all my evening's left-right mix-ups. Left in the local colour in the form of free-associating to Ellen Page (from Halifax) and the movie Hard Candy.

 Twisting the Pelvis with a Long Arm | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 56:00

Taking the idea of turning around the axis into another orientation (lying on our backs, rolling to the side), and playing with some flexion along the front diagonals: you'll get an interesting view into your shoulders with this one! Like an x-ray machine, only kinaesthetic, with zero radiation exposure!

 Twisting the Pelvis with a Long Arm | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 56:00

Taking the idea of turning around the axis into another orientation (lying on our backs, rolling to the side), and playing with some flexion along the front diagonals: you'll get an interesting view into your shoulders with this one! Like an x-ray machine, only kinaesthetic, with zero radiation exposure!

 From clarifying the hips to turning and lifting the head | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 1:00:50

This lesson continues from the previous week (for which the recording unfortunately failed--you can find an outline at this page on Feldy Notebook). We're clarifying the hip joints and finding the magic path of the head in space for a effortless turning, extension and lifting of the head, somewhere in between side-lying and face down, and somewhere in between side-lying and face up.

 From clarifying the hips to turning and lifting the head | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 1:00:50

This lesson continues from the previous week (for which the recording unfortunately failed--you can find an outline at this page on Feldy Notebook). We're clarifying the hip joints and finding the magic path of the head in space for a effortless turning, extension and lifting of the head, somewhere in between side-lying and face down, and somewhere in between side-lying and face up.

 Turning heels and head | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 53:20

Continuing the theme of turning in the hip, and now refining and relating the carriage of the head. It would be interesting to repeat the previous lesson ([[Turning heels out]]) some days after doing this one.

 Turning heels and head | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 53:20

Continuing the theme of turning in the hip, and now refining and relating the carriage of the head. It would be interesting to repeat the previous lesson ([[Turning heels out]]) some days after doing this one.

 Turning heels out | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 50:50

This lesson--entirely in standing--is about finding your axis for turning, with the head and the pelvis coordinated in a smooth arc, and the volume on the extensors of the back "turned down." It's the first of our "turning on a dime." I'm particularly intrigued by this lesson in relation to a passage in The Potent Self that I've always found intriguing. In the chapter, "The means at our disposal," he talks about needing to shut down the habitual work of the extensors in the low back and neck before anything new can be learned. This makes sense and doesn't in light of his usual progression of introductory lessons--a "flexor" lesson is often first. And of course lessons are usually done in lying for this reason. But none of these intro lessons are as extreme as what is described in that chapter of The Potent Self. This lesson, paradoxically in standing, actually carries through this thought: maintaining the rounding of the spine while shifting weight and "coming up on each leg" is remarkably potent as a means of reeducation of the generally over-working and poorly-organized extensors.

 Turning heels out | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 50:50

This lesson--entirely in standing--is about finding your axis for turning, with the head and the pelvis coordinated in a smooth arc, and the volume on the extensors of the back "turned down." It's the first of our "turning on a dime." I'm particularly intrigued by this lesson in relation to a passage in The Potent Self that I've always found intriguing. In the chapter, "The means at our disposal," he talks about needing to shut down the habitual work of the extensors in the low back and neck before anything new can be learned. This makes sense and doesn't in light of his usual progression of introductory lessons--a "flexor" lesson is often first. And of course lessons are usually done in lying for this reason. But none of these intro lessons are as extreme as what is described in that chapter of The Potent Self. This lesson, paradoxically in standing, actually carries through this thought: maintaining the rounding of the spine while shifting weight and "coming up on each leg" is remarkably potent as a means of reeducation of the generally over-working and poorly-organized extensors.

 The Eyeball Lesson | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 45:50

We've been focusing (so to speak) on the eye in its functions of vision and leading action of the whole self--now, let's weigh (so to speak--is the pun tired yet?) its simple physical existence: our grasp of the eye in our self-image.

 Eye lesson | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 44:00

In this lesson focused on the eyes (so to speak), we take our eyes through the range of divergence and convergence--looking at objects near and far away.

 Eye lesson | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 44:00

In this lesson focused on the eyes (so to speak), we take our eyes through the range of divergence and convergence--looking at objects near and far away.

 Sphinx and eyes | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 49:30

In this lesson, we're organizing the eyes and extending the spine--with some adjustments to the head-neck relationship on the way.

 Sphinx and eyes | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 49:30

In this lesson, we're organizing the eyes and extending the spine--with some adjustments to the head-neck relationship on the way.

 Shoulder and hip circles | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 46:30

In this lesson we slowly develop circles of the shoulders and hips on one side.

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