Feldenkrais Awareness Through Movement lessons: Intoduction

This is an introductory series of lessons for any person who is interested in improving their ability to move, and who understand that when you improve the way that you move, you also improve the way you feel, sense and think. The Feldenkrais Method is an extremely gentle movement based training that teaches you how to heighten your ability to sense and feel yourself while you are moving, while improving your freedom and range of movement in all planes of action. Practicing the Feldenkrais Method can have many therapeutic benefits, hone specialised physical skills and support creative expression. This series of lessons was designed for and taught to people training to be professional dancers, however it is suitable for any level of movement capability. Please note that only the first full lesson is demonstrated. As per normal practice, the following lessons are just audio files. This gives participants the opportunity to find their own "solutions" to the movement "problems" to optimize learning potential. Lecture 1: How to do Feldenkrais Awareness Through Movement lessons Students will understand how to do Awareness Through Movement lessons safely and in a way that will optimise their learning. Lecture 2: Freeing The Hip Joints In this first lesson you will learn how to increase your freedom and range of movement in your hip joints. Recorded live in the dance studio, this lesson is suitable for any level of movement expertise. It is done lying on your back and takes 37 minutes Usually Feldenkrais Awareness Through Movement lessons are not demonstrated, but rather the class is lead verbally by the teacher. In this first lesson I will demonstrate the movements as a reference, however the lesson should be undertaken as described by the audio, rather than be watched and copied. This encourages the student to take responsibility for their own learning, problem solve for themselves, and as such, achieve greater learning outcomes. Subsequent lessons will be provided as an audio lesson without any visual demonstration. Lecture 3: Roll To Reach In this second lesson you will understand how the movements of your chest can increase your reach into space. Recorded live in the dance studio, this lesson is suitable for any level of movement expertise. It is done lying on your back and takes 45 minutes. This lesson is an audio lesson and should be undertaken as described on the audio track. Lecture 4: Activating Your Core In this third lesson you will learn how to organise and coordinate all of your torso to increase your proximal power. Recorded live in the dance studio, this lesson is suitable for any level of movement expertise. It is done lying on your back and takes 35 minutes. This lesson is an audio lesson and should be undertaken as described on the audio track. Lecture 5: Discovering the Spine In this fourth lesson you will discover the incredible movement possibilities of your spine. Recorded live in the dance studio, this lesson is suitable for any level of movement expertise. It is done on your hands and knees and takes 45 minutes. This lesson is an audio lesson and should be undertaken as described on the audio track.

Requirements Quiet learning space Comfortable floor space on which to work Warm and comfortable clothing to move in A mat or a rug to work on