‘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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Tagged Awareness through Movement, Feldenkrais Method, Health, Healthy Living, Mobility, Rotation
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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Tagged garden mint, Infused waters, infusions, Orange Flavoured Water, sprigs, vegetarian, Water, zing
‘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
‘Moshe’ on learning is a life gift
Learning is the gift of life. A special kind of learning: that of knowing oneself. (People) learn to know ´how´ they are acting and thus are able to do ´what´ they want. – the intense living of their unavowed and sometimes declared, dreams. Moshe Feldenkrais
‘Moshe’ on being right!
In order to arrive at the right movement, it is first necessary to think of a better movement rather than the right, the right movement has no future development, the latter can be improved – the right remains the limit forever.
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Tagged Being Right, Mindfulness, Moshe Feldenkrais, Movement, Right Moving
‘Moshe’ on teaching
I worked on myself, healing my own knees. I thought I would read up on the structure (of the body) and in that way I would solve the problem myself. I refused to go to the university to learn medicine. I refused to be wired in like everybody else. I said I didn´t mind making my own mistakes but I don´t want to learn by the authority of a know professor. He will convince me because he knows better and in half a year I will lose all my curiosity. Moshe Feldenkrais
Inside Awareness Center for Integrative Somatic Learning 