Awareness Through Movement Lessons for Senior Planet (7/8/24 ~ 9/23/24 Mondays @ 4:00pm)

Moving Forward series by David Zemach-Bersin © David Zemach-Bersin All Rights Reserved*

*Any dissemination, distribution, or copying of these recordings is STRICTLY PROHIBITED.

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Welcome to the page of Feldenkrais Awareness Through Movement class! I’ll be uploading the lessons of ‘Moving Forward series’ as we go along so that you can continue improving your awareness at home after the class.

In doing these recorded lessons, there are some things to pay attention to:

• Go slowly, make movements small, do less, take rests, avoid pain, reduce the effort,

• Please use these recordings as references and adjust to your individual conditions of the day.

• You can pause it whenever you would like to rest, you can do 1/2 of it or 1/3 of it very slowly with more rest. Enjoy!

  I look forward to working with you all!
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Lesson #1 Easy Flexibility - Turning (7/8/24)

Lesson #2 Your Power Center

Lesson #3 Better Balance

Lesson #4 Relaxed Shoulders

Lesson #5 Better Breathing

Recommended book: "The Art of Breathing" is Blandine Calais-German

Lesson #6 Flexible Feet - with a long scan and long lesson

Lesson #7 Healthy Spine

Lesson #8 Lower Back Comfort

Lesson #9 Face and Jaws

Lesson #10 Better Turning

Lesson #11 Comfortably Upright

EXTRA LESSONS

From Feet through the spine, Oscillating

Breathing

Scan

LESSONS for the EYES

I have a long-time fascination about eyes and seeing. What do we see? how do we see? And how our vision affect our body, mind, and outlook on life and world, and vice versa? We have a much greater capacity of seeing. However, often the time, we are using only limited capacity of our eyes. By releasing our ability to see better, we’ll regain connection with our inner and outer world - the connection we used to have and have forgotten.

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 Eye Lesson

Eyeball Lesson

This entire lesson is done through imagination. You’ll explore the physical existence of your eyes, their movements, and sensation through three distinct parts of this lesson.

Eye on the back of the head (From Raz Ori)

One of my students who dived Into this lesson said, “I wasn’t sure why I was doing what I was doing, but when I stood up, I felt sooo connected like I had never experienced before.” Well…mystery certainly helps us get out of our usual and habitual mindset and open us up to the unknown depth of us.

Inclusive/Exclusive Seeing

Many people with imperfect vision have a tendency to try to focus on the details without paying attention to the peripheral. it is crucial for our eye health to have more INCLUSIVE focus instead of EXCLUSIVE focus. Exclusive focus at first seems to advance us faster and more efficiently, but pretty soon, we’ll notice that we are missing the richness of our lives by limiting what we see. By including other ‘unseen’ parts of our bodies in our wholesome image, we can expand our vision, see better and deeper. Drawn from Raz Ori’s workshop.

Hands Teaching Eyes (David Weber “Seeing Clearly’ series led by Naoko)

Some writings on the Eyes

• A small brain training for the eyes

• Eyes and Minds

Recommended Readings

• Awareness Through Movement by Moshe Feldenkrais

• Brain’s Way of Healing by Norman Doidge, M.D.

• Relaxercise: the easy way to health and fitness by David Zemach-Bersin

• The Bates Method for Better Eyesight Without Glasses by William H. Bates

• Luminous Life by Jacob Israel Liberman