Tag Archives: Awareness through Movement

Exercise Tip for Toes

Posted on July 7, 2012 | Leave a comment

by Renee Lindstrom, GCFP @ Inside Awareness, Living in Natures Love Blog & Renee Lindstrom Live

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

‘Exercises to notice rotational mobility’

Posted on July 6, 2012 | Leave a comment

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

‘Moshe’ on changing your habits and creating a new experience

Posted on February 4, 2012 | Leave a comment

A human being is like a computer that is capable of thousands of things. But we put in a card that only lets it do one thing. Until you change the card, that is all the computer will do: that one thing, over and over and over. That is the state in which we function and we believe that no other cards exist, that this card is the one and only card that we can function upon. I say that the difference between human beings and machines is that we make the cards. So, when one card doesn´t work, take it out and put in a new card. ‘Moshe Feldenkrais’