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Like A Natural Woman - 8- Pelvic Floor Makes Legs Lift Lighter

Like A Natural Woman -8- Legs Lift Lighter When Pelvic Floor

A wisely enaged pelvic floor makes leg lifting lighter

Pelvic floor balance is critical to overall balance in standing and sitting. Now is the perfect time to start improving your balance. Your future self is thanking you.

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Like A Natural Woman - 7 - Lift a Leg a Little

Like A Natural Woman -7 - Lift a Leg a Little

Build spinal and pelvic floor power with a little lift of the leg. Find unnecessary, tiring, excessive movements that that slow you down and begin to just let them go.

Pelvic floor balance is critical to overall balance in standing and sitting. Now is the perfect time to start improving your balance. Your future self is thanking you.

New Student Registration for the series. Continuing students use ongoing login. $40/month or $15/individual class. PayPal or Venmo: jackisue@aol.com. Or Jacki Katzman, PO Box 116, Bethlehem, NH 03574

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Like A Natural Woman - 5 - Arms and Legs to Floor - A Candelabra Lesson continued

Like A Natural Woman - 5- Arms and Legs to Floor - A Candelabra Lesson continued

Same-side and diagonal connections from the arms and legs via the pelvic floor help us begin to feel when the pevlic floor is active, and when it is relaxed. Surprisingly, it’s the relaxed state that’s usually elusive.

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The Lusty Month of May - Ribbons 3 - The Ribbons Pull Your Chest, Hips and Hands

The Lusty Month of May - Ribbon Lessons

Grab an imaginary ribbon, tie it on, and allow your imaginary perfect practice partner pull oh-so-gently. These selected, classic Awareness Through Movement® lessons are playful, simple, and familiar. Dance with season.

Let the ribbon draw your chest, back, belly and low back forward and back to create more opening, deeper breath. Tie the ribbons together in different combination to stand taller, release your low back, and all the benefits of an elongated spine.

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The Lusty Month of May - Ribbons 2 - The Ribbons Pull You (Ribbons and Fingers)

The Lusty Month of May - Ribbon Lessons

Grab an imaginary ribbon, tie it on, and allow your imaginary perfect practice partner pull oh-so-gently. These selected, classic Awareness Through Movement® lessons are playful, simple, and familiar. Dance with season.

Let the ribbon draw your chest, back, belly and low back forward and back to create more opening, deeper breath. Tie the ribbons together in different combination to stand taller, release your low back, and all the benefits of an elongated spine.

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The Lusty Month of May - Ribbons 1 - Around the Maypole (Four Corners)

The Lusty Month of May - Ribbon Lessons

Grab an imaginary ribbon, tie it on, and allow your imaginary perfect practice partner pull oh-so-gently. These selected, classic Awareness Through Movement® lessons are playful, simple, and familiar. Dance with season.

Hold the ribbon to your shoulder, your hip, in one hand or both, and let the dance guide you into the grace of connected, effortless movement.

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String of Pearls/Solid Support - Finale - Whole Body Integration

String of Pearls/Solid Support: Spine in the Middle

Spiraling through the series themes; old lesson with new options, new awareness.

Taking it to the center with a series exploring the spine from the tip of the tongue to the root of the sacrum. Take time to notice the the subtle shifts in balance with just a slight tip to one side of the jaw. Feel the echos through the neck, shoulders, spine, pelvis, eyes and hands. Lots to chew on.

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String of Pearls/Solid Support - 12 - Rolling The Strand From The Top

String of Pearls/Solid Support: Spine in the Middle

Reaching and rollling - extending the spine from the head down, connecting mid-back to the whole

Taking it to the center with a series exploring the spine from the tip of the tongue to the root of the sacrum. Take time to notice the the subtle shifts in balance with just a slight tip to one side of the jaw. Feel the echos through the neck, shoulders, spine, pelvis, eyes and hands. Lots to chew on.

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String of Pearls/Solid Support - 11 - Rolling The Strand As One (Moving the body around the spine)

String of Pearls/Solid Support: Spine in the Middle

Reaching and rollling - extending the spine and fine-tune adjusting as the body rolls around it

Taking it to the center with a series exploring the spine from the tip of the tongue to the root of the sacrum. Take time to notice the the subtle shifts in balance with just a slight tip to one side of the jaw. Feel the echos through the neck, shoulders, spine, pelvis, hands and in eating. Lots to chew on.

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String of Pearls/Solid Support - 10 - Deep Spinal Twist Dynamics

String of Pearls/Solid Support: Spine in the Middle

Reaching and rollling - find space to in the spoine to reach and roll

Taking it to the center with a series exploring the spine from the tip of the tongue to the root of the sacrum. Take time to notice the the subtle shifts in balance with just a slight tip to one side of the jaw. Feel the echos through the neck, shoulders, spine, pelvis, hands and in eating. Lots to chew on.

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String of Pearls/Solid Support -9 - Deeper Spine Side Bending

String of Pearls/Solid Support: Spine in the Middle

Feel how the vertebrae facets mesh/open in in side bending, and how the pelvis and head amplify the spinal movement for more flexibility and drive.

Taking it to the center with a series exploring the spine from the tip of the tongue to the root of the sacrum. Take time to notice the the subtle shifts in balance with just a slight tip to one side of the jaw. Feel the echos through the neck, shoulders, spine, pelvis, hands and in eating. Lots to chew on.

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String of Pearls/Solid Support - 8 - Lock in the twist

String of Pearls/Solid Support: Spine in the Middle

Feel how the vertebrae facets mesh into a strong, supported twist. For a powerful swing or to see what’s going on in the back seat.

Taking it to the center with a series exploring the spine from the tip of the tongue to the root of the sacrum. Take time to notice the the subtle shifts in balance with just a slight tip to one side of the jaw. Feel the echos through the neck, shoulders, spine, pelvis, hands and in eating. Lots to chew on.

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String of Pearls/Solid Support - 7 - Snaky Spine Slide - (Shimmy workshop revisited)

String of Pearls/Solid Support: Spine in the Middle

Explore your spine and move like a wave in this ‘pearl by pearl’ look at the spine, this time gliding the pearls side to side. Another trance-likely lesson.

Taking it to the center with a series exploring the spine from the tip of the tongue to the root of the sacrum. Take time to notice the the subtle shifts in balance with just a slight tip to one side of the jaw. Feel the echos through the neck, shoulders, spine, pelvis, hands and in eating. Lots to chew on.

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String of Pearls/Solid Support - 6 - Catch a Wave (Pearl by Pearl)

String of Pearls/Solid Support: Spine in the Middle

Explore your spine and move like a wave in this ‘pearl by pearl’ look at the spine. Another trance-likely lesson.

Taking it to the center with a series exploring the spine from the tip of the tongue to the root of the sacrum. Take time to notice the the subtle shifts in balance with just a slight tip to one side of the jaw. Feel the echos through the neck, shoulders, spine, pelvis, hands and in eating. Lots to chew on.

BY ZOOM New Students: Register here

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