August ATM's - a variety of lessons #22

Spatial Relationships as a Means to Coordinated Action (Book Lesson 9)

“You will now learn that
conscious attention to the spatial relationships between moving limbs
makes movement coordinated and flowing,
and attentive systematic scanning of a part of the body
can relax superfluous muscular tension there.

Mechanical action does not teach us anything

and will not improve ability.
Common movements carried out in a different way
most often indicates poor coordination,
not superior individual ability.
In fact, as movement improves
it will approximate more closely the usual movement
carried out by most people.”

In many Feldenkrais circles this lesson is known as the ‘dead bird’, yet with my training in Mind Body Studies Academy they called it the Nogushi… in honor of the man who acknowledged Moshe. The way he saw it, this lesson is quite ingeniuous in the way it causes humans to twist, turn and navigate the sitbones, torso as spatial awareness is raised.

Enjoy learning more about, with, and for your self through these movements: