About Walking 5 - Ankles=Ribs
The soccer players’ secret to soft ankles - might be all the way up in the ribs. And wrists. Work out the combinations of movement that could transform the way your walk, kick, dance…
Based on the “AY #433: Edges of the feet”
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Read MoreScience nerd meets Epic music producer and talk creativity. Three hours of fascinating conversation. Highly recommended.
Read MoreAbout Walking 4 - Sink, Turn and Lift
More on the mechanics of waking. Explore pivoting over the standing leg and making space for the back leg to swing through.
Based on the “Coachman Lesson”. by Mia Segel and Gaby Yaron, San Francisco Notes
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Read More“Everyday Health” publishes “What Is the Feldenkrais Method? A Detailed Scientific Guide to This Type of Somatic Movement.” A clinically-supported introduction to the benefits of exploring Awareness Through Movement® and Functional Integration®.
Read MoreAbout 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 -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 MoreFrom Core to Floor - 2 - Roll Legs, Engage Core
When legs, pelvis and breath coordinate, legs move more freely, gracefully. A minimalist lesson accessible to new students, an invitation to go deep to those with ATM experience.
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Read MoreCore To Floor - 1 - The Cork Lesson
Read MoreThe Huberman Lab Podcast explores the neuroscience of meditation: how and when it works, and why. Learn to assess your current state and choose the right meditative form to relax or activate, go inward or connect outward, and return to balance. These same assessments can help you optimize your Awareness to Movement lesson time.
Read MoreColleague Anita Bueno walks the Feldenkrais walk and takes occasional rests. Her students continue their ATM studies independently, following Anita’s wise ‘Feldy Lesson Principles.”
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.
BY ZOOM New Students: Register here
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