Full Length (45-60 minute) Feldenrkais® Awareness Through Movement® Lessons
PREPARATION:
Please read Recording INTRO Instructions to prepare yourself for the Feldenkrais Lessons.
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What is the content of these lessons – where might you start?
The “beginner” lessons listed here are ones that require less overall mobility from participants as most of the clients that I work with have chronic pain and significant movement limitations. For the actual recordings shown here, scroll lower on this page.
01: Awareness of Breath
08: Floating the Bones
21: Options
22: Push through Foot
23: Spine like a chain
26: Side Lying Shoulder and Hip circles
30: The Wave
33: Frog Legs
Lessons 01 – 20
In general, these are breathing lessons or lessons with much less physical movement.
The remaining recordings are lessons with a variety of full-body integrated movements. The name of the lesson may or may not indicate areas of the body it may be more helpful for. However, in general since everyone’s body is unique and individual, movement sequences that help someone find relief in one area, may be experienced quite differently in another person. We are not always aiming to help one’s area of pain as much as to help one feel how the entire body is connected and supportive of all movements.
There are probably 1000’s of different Awareness Through Movement lessons that Dr. Feldenkrais created. Most of the lessons I have taught and recorded are less complex than many other lessons offered by other practitioners. However due to my work with people in pain, I have selected lessons that are less physically challenging. With that said, all lessons should be approached with the student listening to their own capacity and limitations while avoiding the urge to “push” oneself. One of the key elements of these movement lessons is to learn to feel for quality not quantity. Often much more learning can happen in the brain and nervous system by doing much less rather than pushing to ones end-range or limits. The intention is for you to learn to move with greater ease, grace and organization, rather than what we often do in our culture where we admire and praise those who can push themselves to their limits.
Remember to HAVE FUN. Learning to move with ease and grace may initially feel awkward in learning how to move slowly and with intention but you will improve with practice. Hopefully you will begin to feel small changes in how you sense yourself that filter into your everyday life and make life more enjoyable.
Awareness Through Movement® Lessons
1 Awareness of Breath—36:36 minutes
2 Breath Connecting to the Whole 39:40 minutes (advanced)
3 Breathing Into Four Quarters 37:52 minutes
4 Ballooning and Expanding 39:33 minutes
5 Side Lying Breathing 43:19 minutes
6 Breathing Into Bones 37:29 minutes
7 Balance Visualization 35:54 minutes
8 Floating The Bones — 46:56 minutes
9 Jellyfish Hands — 44:50 minutes
10 Expanded Vision — 41:21 minutes
11 Natural Face Lift 35:51 minutes
12 Eye Spheres 47:50 minutes (advanced)
16 Gentle Opening/Closing 39:30 minutes
17 Soft Hands with Push Thru Foot 41:14 minutes
18 Push Thru Foot Expanded 49:56 minutes
19 Rolling Head with Hands 36:37 minutes
20 Pelvic Floor Health 38:49 minutes
21b Options(2) — 27:33 minutes
22 Push Thru Foot — 42:28 minutes
23 Spine Like a Chain — 40:42 minutes
24 Pelvic Clock — 43:07 minutes
25 Thoracic Clock — 45:29 minutes
26 Side Lying Shoulder and Hip Circles — 41:50 minutes
27 Arm Triangle — 46:53 minutes
29 Choosing Comfort — 38:18 minutes
32 Long Free Back — 40:16 minutes
34 Simple Side Bending Back — 38:09 minutes
35 Side Bending with Frog Legs — 40:17 minutes
36 Hand - Arm - Shoulders — 38:42 minutes
37 Lengthening Hamstrings — 43:35 minutes
38 Prone Extension — 38:15 minutes
40 Folding Around the Core — 42:37 minutes
41 Graceful Rolling from Side Lying — 39:02 minutes
42 Side Lying Taking Arm Behind — 50:17 minutes
43 Side Lying Rib Pelvic Movements — 46:54 minutes
44 Feet Side Lying — 45:04 minutes
45 Focusing on Feet — 38:14 minutes
46 Side Lying Lower Leg Rotations — 36:09 minutes
47 Feet Knees Hips Side Bending — 36:13 minutes
48 Rolling Using Arm-Hand-Knee Rotation — 36:04 minutes
49 Rolling Head with Hand — 36:40 minutes
50 Elbow Lifting Rolling Side to Side — 35:43 minutes
51 Rib Rolling Rotation on Back — 38:54 minutes
52 Side Lying Head Leg Integration — 42:13 minutes
54 Supine Side Bending With Rotation — 36:27 minutes
55 Prone Side Bending With Rotation — 33:14 minutes
56 Side Lying Reaching to Ceiling — 51:03 minutes
57 Releasing Holding Patterns — 37:07 minutes
58 Arm Reaching Across Chest Rolling — 45:07 minutes
59 Arm Reach and Roll — 46:59 minutes
61 Hands Connecting Legs — 41:39 minutes
62 Postural Preferences — 41:25 minutes
63 Differentiation Lying — 42:53 minutes
64 Knee Pulling Hand Opening Chest — 41:25 minutes
65 Advanced Prone Extension — 46:44 minutes
66 Advanced Head Roll — 35:09 minutes
67 Advanced Arm Triangles — 46:50 minutes
68 Grace and Effort with Core — 40:05 minutes
69 Grace and Effort Advanced — 40:06 minutes
70 Advanced Options — 34:53 minutes
72 Bobble-head — 40:10 minutes
73 Pushing Jello — 40:41 minutes
74 Sitting Circles — 35:26 minutes
75 Segmental Sitting — 39:11 minutes
76 Advanced Arm Triangle — 46:10 minutes
77 Standing Hip Exploration — 47:31 minutes
Medical Disclaimer: These practices are not intended to be a substitute for the medical advice of physicians.