Awareness Through Movement Lesson #52

Head fixed, pelvis fixed while standing on the knees - CONSTRAINTS - a Vita friendly lesson.

Constraints in one training, differentiation in another.. does it alter the experience of the movement?? Perhaps the movement within all depends on the context we choose. When I think constraints I get the feeling of being held against my will, yet in this lesson it is me holding myself in place while the rest moves around that point so it is not so much against my will because I have the controls. Can the same be said of myself in the society I live in, do I have the political controls as a voter? I often wonder.

I definitely do not have the controls of this AI… there is so much to teach it!

woman, head, pelvis, human tail drawing circles, knees bent, standing on knees, feldenkrais, movement lesson

In this lesson Moshe talks about identifying which vertebrae is involved in the movement, which we’ve explored numerous times with rolling the head from side to side while lying on the floor. You might find that this experience changes when we’re standing on our knees with only the air around to guide us in the (almost) vertical. With nothing hard to press against, to feel in comparison with, does that makes identifying parts of the skeleton harder, more difficult to sense the location of different bones?