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Wednesday, September 26, 2018

Feldenkrais classes this week: A 40 sec video of moving the distal with the proximal -- from the central parts of oneself!

Do you want to feel lighter, more open, and breathe better? 


In class this week, this lovely lesson teaches how to invite the entire body to support and move the shoulders, arms, hands, especially initiating movement from the chest, back and pelvis. We decrease pain, tension and tightness, while increasing flexibility and range of movement. As an extra benefit of the lesson, the ribs and chest open and expand, breathing gets much deeper, easier and more comfortable. It is a wonderful lesson and useful for improving quality of movement and life as well as post-surgery or post illness. It will also help your golf game. 



In the video, you can catch a glimpse of how each little movement in a slightly different direction changes the conversation through the body. This is a fascinating lesson, when done very small and slowly, feeling and learning to use arms in a new way. Then beginning to use the chest and pelvis -- to move from a completely different part of oneself -- to move the arms. The movement shifts from very distal to very proximal and central, becoming more powerful and adaptive, and beautifully balanced. This is very pain relieving, restorative and heart opening. 

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