Awareness Through Movement #177

Making the spine flexible, and integrating it - meet your BACK BONE.

Take it easy with this lesson, we’ll be working with deep fascial lines that may be unfamiliar with tonight’s offerings. Please stay within your range of comfort. One of the (many) ways Feldenkrais differs from other methodologies is the relationship to pain. The old “no pain no gain” adage does not apply with what we’re doing, instead it is strongly advised to hear pain as your body holding up a big “STOP” sign with the tagline…

“there is an alternate route,
your job right now,
is to find it”.

The magic of these lessons is in the alternate routes and VERY often they’re in areas we have neglected to include.. hence adding more of your self to the movement can radically change the experience. That’s what this is all about, bringing the whole of you… the good, the bad and the ugly… to movement, to awareness, to life.

With this lesson, you are invited to visualise the inner workings of your spine, remembering that the bulk of the spine is INSIDE you. What we feel from the outside is merely the spikey bits called the spinous processes… which open and close as we bend forward, backward and side to side… as does the inside of the spine, the “body” of the bones which are quite large in the lumbar spine. I need two hands to get them around *Max’s lumbar spine. Max is a full skeleton Megan loaned me while she gallavants around the country looking after people’s pooches, and the rest of the time in Australia’s out back catching echidna’s <- joke.

Here’s the lesson, have a memorable time exploring an area that plays a really important role in holding humans upright… of all the species on the planet, we were gifted the most challenging “job”.

The lesson: