Like A Natural Woman - 4 - Arms to Abs to Floor - A Candelabra Lesson
Same-side and diagonal connections from the arms and shoulders to the pelvic floor develop quietly, but powerfully in this variation of the candelabra lesson.
Count how long it takes you to mictate (pee). Your count should be between 8-15 seconds. If less or more, its time to pay attention. This lesson helps you begin to better manage your peeing.
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 - 2 - Count to 8 Left and Right
Use your inner groove and side-to-side sway to strengthen the sides of the pelvic floor.
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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A light weight - a tuna can is good - lifted high gives you a chance to feel your pelvic floor. A brief anatomy might be suprisingly enlightening.
Pelvic floor awareness can be the key to better balance, continence, athletic and other performance, abdominal organ health and more. Learn about your pelvic floor system and how to use your floor to support your whole self.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Quotes from Seth Godin and Sogyal Rinpoche on incompetence and rest as learning tools - just as Moshe Feldenkrais taught. First approximations and generous rests are baked into the Feldenkrais Method.