Awareness Through Movement #109

Lowering the pelvis to sitting - Megan Hopley is reading tonight - RECORDING ADDED

Megan has a beautiful, very gently manner for reading Feldenkrais lesson… even the tricky ones. Now, I’m not saying this one is challenging or difficult - for everyone, unless you have broken both of your ankles at some point during your life.

Even then, Megan has a way about her that has even those people move through the lesson as if it’s a really basic one. Which this kind of sort of is… considering we “spend” a lot of time standing, or do we? Has the sitting position become so comfortable that we spend more time sitting?? Although I’m really not sure about that, I am sure that for everybody it’s different.

standing squat legs wide apart, straight back. Oh, my goodness… tonight’s Feldenkrais lesson has nothing to do with the image above. I’m sure the people who program Substack’s AI are speaking a different language… robot-ese.

This lesson is a bit of a mix, it has the familiar design of a test movement.. this time in standing…. and then we get down on the ground to work out ways to make this every day, ought to be simple movement a whole lot easier. We lie on the back to work out the puzzle because that’s when our muscles relax with the magnetic forces offered by planet Earth. Moshe’s logic is that when the muscles are not having to deal with the challenge of being vertical, ony then can the human body start to (re)organise its Self in preparation for the vertical.

One of his first generation students, Ruthy…