About Walking -2 - Dig in Your Heels (Gently, Gently)
The heel bone has evolved to absorb the pounding of walking. Make use of it. Practice consciously planting the heel with every step. Call is tai chi walking or Mr. Natural Truckin’, it’s the way to walk safely, with more balance. Great for knee issues.
Based on AY 373 - Turning the Heels
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Read MoreAbout Walking - 1 - The Walk Cycle
Walking: it’s one of the most complicated, most human things we do: standing upright and falling forward without falling. Animators know the complexity, but have found ways. to simplify understanding the actions. So put yourself into the frame! This lesson is about feeling the parts of the walking cycle.
You could also call it the “3 Way Hip” Lesson.
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Read MoreFrom Core to Floor - 6 - Any TIme, Any Place - Practical Pelvic Floor Practice
Tune into the coordinated movements of the pelvic bones, thing and abdominal muscles, spine and low back muscles, breath and glutei: they sum up to the pelvic floor system.
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Read MoreFrom Core to Floor - 5 - Balance the Buttocks
Test drive your tush for power in sitting, standing, turning. This busy little lesson gets at the glutes from all angles and relaionship to gravity.
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Read MoreFrom Core to Floor - 4 - Scoop The Glutes to Sing The “Whoops”
Get down into the mystery of the backup singer “whoop,” that march/swing move and powerful sound. And give your glutes a workout as well. It’s all connected to the pelvic floor. Whoop!
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Read MoreFrom Core to Floor - 3 - Open and Close the Rings
Tighten one ring muscle, tighten all. Or that is how it should be. Concentrate on coordinating the ring muscles and build core and pelvic floor strength.
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Read MoreAbs: No Crunch - Pelvic Wall 2 - Peek-A-Boo Toes
The lower abs hold in vital organs, and are essential to good acture. Take a whole body, NO CRUNCH, approach to developing the lower abs; gentle movements of the shoulders, head and pelvis can help ‘reorganize’ the ab’s functioning in the nervous system.
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Read MoreAbs: No Crunch - Pelvic Wall 2 - Peek-A-Boo Toes
The lower abs hold in vital organs, and are essential to good acture. Take a whole body, NO CRUNCH, approach to developing the lower abs; gentle movements of the shoulders, head and pelvis can help ‘reorganize’ the ab’s functioning in the nervous system.
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Read MoreA Glimpse of Leg - 4 - Spiral to Sit
Roll out of Shivasana or bed elegantly, with minimal effort and maximum grace
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Read MoreA Glimpse of Leg - 3 - Legs to Chest
Explore the connections between the legs and chest - how they reciprocally allow relaxation and support.
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Read MoreA Glimpse of Leg - 2 - Leg Lines
Draw imaginary lines down your legs to feel into the hip sockets and explore ways of improving the alignment. Notice how more level hips improve balance, posture, and silhouette.
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Read MoreA Glimpse of Leg - 1 - Leg Circles
Feel deeply into the hip socket from sitting and tummy-lying by circling the feet.
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Read MoreAn intro taster lesson and/or an easy lesson to bring together the previous Recentering lessons “Everything, Right Here, All At Once”: center plane, infinity hips center point, spine like a wave, diagonals front and back, playing with your elbows, inner and outer space, top and bottom, twist around your center and tippy top tongue. Hands and feet mirror the center line with everything you can bring to it.
Adapted from “Classical Mechanics: Poise 4” as taught by Andrew Gibbons.
Wednesdays 9:30 am and 6:30 pm. BY ZOOM New Students: Register here
Read MoreBoldly go where you haven’t been: deep into your internal and outer space, all the while holding your center. An eye exploration for the whole body.
Adapted from “Esalen Workshop: Reeducation of the Eyes” by Moshe Feldenkrais.
Wednesdays 9:30 am and 6:30 pm. BY ZOOM New Students: Register here
Read MoreThis ‘ReCentering’ variation explores the internal diagonals from sternum to sacrum and the opposite diagonal from between shoulder blades to the pubis. These torso diagonals balance the front/back and top/bottom: flexibility within stability.
Adapted from “Gentle Fingers and Ribbons” lesson as taught by Alan Questel
Wednesdays 9:30 am and 6:30 pm. BY ZOOM New Students: Register here
Read MoreAwareness in the Sanctuary - Yearning - 4 - Inner Alignment
The practical can also be the spiritual with intention. Align your spine for strength, flexibility and clarity.
Free and open to the public. Appropriate for all body types, levels of fitness, spiritual or religious orientation.
Thursdays in July, 9:30 AM, in the BHC Sanctuary and by Zoom (register here).
Read MoreReCentering for Sports and Sanity - 5 - Play From The Elbows
Wednesdays 9:30 am and 6:30 pm. BY ZOOM New Students: Register here
Read MoreAwareness in the Sanctuary - Yearning - 3 - Heart as Compass
The practical can also be the spiritual with intention. This week the intention is dual: have a deep, satisfying upper back stretch, and focus awareness on the heart.
Free and open to the public. Appropriate for all body types, levels of fitness, spiritual or religious orientation.
Thursdays in July, 9:30 AM, in the BHC Sanctuary and by Zoom (register here).
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