Reptile dance: on your belly: audio

Start with small movements of the head backwards towards the elbow. This dance is for finding movement in T1 and T2 in particular, between the shoulder blades, and for differentiating the ribs and the vertebra.

You can also do this movement sitting on a chair, feet firmly on the floor with hands and elbows on a table: be sure you are not "reaching up" to the table, or "reaching down" .

Enjoy the dance!

Feldenkrais Class by Baby Liv: Foundations of The Feldenkrais Method - H...

Baby Liv explains Feldenkrais better than words

Developmental movement patterns underlie the movement lessons taught in the Feldenkrais Method, and baby Liv demonstrates these beautifully. What do you think?

Standing scan- chair- spiralling the hands from the knees to find length in the back: audio

. . . and some comments from Leila

"Thank you so much for last Friday’s class, my neck and especially my left shoulder – which is often painful and sore – feel just so much better, I can hardly believe that just two sessions would make such a difference.

Thank you again for really adding to the quality of my life, Leila"

My responses to our Awareness Through Movement class

It's been so exciting working with these two new themes (freeing your neck and shoulders, and Feldenkrais for Yoga practitioners) for this lesson series, and I'm loving teaching such wonderful, warm, receptive groups!

What a challenge I've set myself teaching Yoga teachers and practitioners, and finding ways to weave the red threads of my Feldenkrais classes with the movement gestalts of the Yoga asanas I've paired them with. It's certainly pushing the boundaries of my understandings of the movement patterns we are exploring. I'm so grateful for the fabulous conversations we've been having as part of the reflective process in this class, and am learning a lot about my teaching and practice through this. It's clear that Feldenkrais can be a great lense through which to explore the Yoga asanas, adding a richness to all our experiences.

I'm so impressed by the way each person settles deeply and consciously into the work of the small movements of this method, and by the curiosity about the process and their own movements:)

Been thinking a lot about spirals and am finding more of a felt sense of the spiral patterns in all our movements. . . I guess that's what we do as we unfurl, too!

I'll put the reaching for a peach lesson up soon: see what you think!

Freeing your neck & shoulders - lying scan: audio