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Awareness Through Movement #46

Lowering The Head- I'm calling it Head Circles - with recording

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Dale Dickins
Mar 18, 2024
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that’s what we’ll be doing, circles with the head.

“Is it possible to understand that a good movement is one where a person,
without thinking,
feels all the relationships between different parts of his body while moving?
The more you add parts when they become clearer,
the better the picture becomes.”

There’s quite a lot of talking in this lesson, filled with ^MosheGems^ during the movements. I encourage you to take rests/pauses whenever YOU sense it’s necessary, you can always return to the movement.

As we know, the head sits atop the neck so P L E A S E take it gently.. treat those delicate bones, muscles, ligaments, tendons with respect… and… I’ll add here what has been mentioned during previous lessons… if you think “the neck” ends at the shoulders, then I invite you to think again.

spinal column, spinal chain, links, head, tailbone, feldenkrais

Experience the difference… what happens when you think of the spine as a chain, with links connected all the way to the tailbone, and you include all of those pieces of the puzzle rather than stopping at C7? Do this especially if you’re finding your “neck” is getting sore.

If you have a pet dog or cat, or bird, or fish, any animal really… notice how THE WHOLE BODY is included when the tail wags. Animals haven’t been told that

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