To listen another’s soul into a condition of disclosure and discovery may be almost the greatest service any human being ever performs for another. Douglas Steer
Exercise Tip for Toes
Explore Feldenkrais in 2 ways:- Group Glasses & Workshops called: Awareness through Movement or ATM (Classes below)
- Individual Sessions called: Functional Integration (for increasing available movement for conditions, injuries, athletes, musicians, dancers and development
Cultivating Awareness through ATM focused upon the feet
Exercises for between Awareness Through Movement® Lessons
Toes – Begin with one foot first. With a small towel or scarf on the floor, begin to pull it towards you with your toes and sense the quality of your movement. Notice the effort in each one of your toes.
Purpose: to begin to loosen the toe joints and increase their ability to bend. After a few pulls towards you now use your toes to push the towel/scarf away from you. Lengthening them and beginning to push them into the floor as you push the towel/scarf away.
Slowly focus your attention remembering to practice with only one foot at a time. Begin to notice any sensation in your toes. Curl your toes under and push them way to lengthen them.
Softly – begin to lighten the effort and softy pull the towel towards you and softly push it away.
Take time to notice first one foot and compare it to your second one before starting. Notice any sensations in your toes and then explore to see if you notice anything elsewhere in your body that may feel differently.
Take time each day for a few minutes to wake up your toes!
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Renee Lindstrom, GCFP,
Feldenkrais® Practitioner since 2007, Value-Based Communication & Empathy Coach since 2004, Art of Placement since 2000, Founder of Greater Victoria Peace & Intercultural Celebrations since 2010 & Greater Victoria Labyrinths since 2012, #yyj Peace Week Calendar Founder – 2014 & 2015
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‘Exercises to notice rotational mobility’
From the Feldenkrais Center Newsletter – Toronto
Simple turning exercises like the one below will help maintain rotational mobility.
Try this:
*Please note this exercise should be done slowly and gently
either standing or sitting in a straight-backed chair.
1. Turn your upper body and head to look to the right. Return to front, pause. Observe how far right you were able to see.
2. While keeping eyes still, and focused straight ahead, turn the head and upper body to the right. Return to front.
Notice any restrictions in turning while eyes are fixed and stationary.
3. This time turn the shoulders and upper body to the right while the head and eyes face forward. Return to front, pause
4. Repeat step 1. Notice how far back you can see now & the improved quality of turning.
*Repeat steps (1-4), this time turning to the left.
Do this exercise 3-4 times on both sides.
The Feldenkrais Center Newsletter
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Get rid of the plastic and make your own flavoured water from your fruit, herbs & veggies!
Have you started yet?
Today seeing an aged orange that my family would not be picking out of the bunch to peel I decided to slice it and add it together with water in a jug with two sprigs of garden mint. Wala an appealing looking glass of water an hour later!
As I taste it, it has a subtle orange flavour that is far more refreshing than a glass of mixed juices with sugars and preservatives. The mint isn’t strong yet gives it a zing of freshness. Ah, summer.
orange infused water
What are your favorite fruit, herb and veggie infusions?
Next is the lavendar water.
flavoured waters
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‘Moshe’ gives advise on creating ease to learn
Make your training a habit. If you choose a convenient time, you will be able to abide by regular exercises. If you make it difficult, you will soon find a-hundred-and-one alternatives instead. Occasionally break the regularity. Do not make your habit a compulsion. Moshe Feldenkrais
Inside Awareness Center for Integrative Somatic Learning 