Single Lesson Downloads
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Bending and Twisting on a Chair
$3.99 View DetailsWhen you spend a lot of time sitting, your spine gets compressed, everything gets stiff and even your internal organs are affected. This powerful lesson will wake up your ribs, and enliven your entire spine. I find just doing portions of this lesson while trapped at a desk is a great rejuvenator.
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Jes’ Rollin’ Around
$3.99 View DetailsMake sure you have enough room from side to side for this lesson. And take your time! Feel free to only do some of the movement the first time. While we all love to roll around, this has some adventurous moments at the end. Remember to always stay with what's comfortable and easy. Once you own the lesson, you have all the time in the world to get to the end!
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Frog Legs and Eyes
$3.99 View DetailsWhere the eyes go, the legs follow. Or vice versa. Learn how the movement of your eyes and your legs affect your pelvis and spine. This is a very gentle lesson with some profound neurological learning.
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From the Impossible to…..
$3.99 View DetailsCan you be OK with not knowing? This lesson starts small, grows into a symphony of movement filled with surprises and new possibilities along the way. Just have fun!
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Knees to Elbows
$3.99 View DetailsThe Feldenkrais Method welcomes paradox. Why is it that by spending time learning how to round your back more, your posture improves? Try it and learn for yourself.
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Breath and Action
$3.99 View DetailsWe take our breath for granted, often without realizing our habits. This lesson interferes with habitual patterns while inviting movements that require attention to both.
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Lowering the Head
$3.99 View DetailsOne thing I love about Feldenkrais lessons is the variety of learning opportunities. This lesson explores dozens of ways of doing the same thing, without every getting boring.
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The Pelvis and Balance
$3.99 View DetailsAfter teaching this lesson one day, a student told me, "This lesson should be titled, 'Pelvis, Pelvis, Pelvis.'". It's all about how your center affects everything else - your balance, your comfort, your stance. It also happens to be one of my all time favorite lessons.
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Resting Your Eyes
$3.99 View DetailsYou can improve your eyesight while relaxing the rest of yourself. Eye strain and habitual ways of using the eyes are two ways that we limit vision AND affect our carriage. This lesson is all about finding new options for your eyes.
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Hamstrings and Hips!
$3.99 View DetailsSo many people complain about tight hamstrings without realizing that flexibility comes from the back and hip flexors. This lesson offers a few challenging moves - just remember, less is more!
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Feeling Your Wings
$3.99 View DetailsDid you know your fingers are connected to your shoulder blades? And that freedom of movement in the arms is related to your spine? This lesson spends a bit of time lying on the stomach, and challenges your arms. So take care of yourself, get pillows, move lightly and maybe you'll fly!
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Where Does My Reach Begin?
$3.99 View DetailsThis side lying lesson explores the relationship of the arm and shoulder to the spine and ribs, while also improving rotation and a fun grand finale.
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Self Hug
$3.99 View DetailsWe all need a hug sometimes. But this hug will not only offer new insights into your scapulae and ribs, but will also teach you about the joys of rotation and differentiation - two crucial abilities that are easy to lose in our sedentary culture. Plus you get a bonus "self-massage!"
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Pelvic and Shoulder Girdles
$3.99 View DetailsIn an organized skeleton, the pelvic and shoulder girdles are doing a constant dance together. This lesson looks at all the ways they interact, and how that informs the movement of your spine.This side lying lesson is delightfully easy.
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Folding and Unfolding
$3.99 View DetailsWhile the title hints at the movement, this mostly side-lying exploration of flexion and extension has a secret agenda - the ability to foresee a movement and execute it without compulsion. "If you know what you're doing, you can do what you want." Moshe Feldenkrais
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Big X
$3.99 View DetailsOne day, a student called to ask if there were lessons for migraines. Then someone else walked in complaining of back pain. Someone else said, "Ugh, you have anything for my right hip?" At a loss, I decided to stick with my lesson plan and teach this amazing lesson that looks at EVERYTHING including our self-image. To my amazement, each of these people thanked me for choosing a lesson "just for me." While this lesson begins in sitting, it is mostly on the back. Enjoy!
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How Do You Arch?
$3.99 View DetailsYogis and non-yogis alike love this unusual, stress free way to explore ways of arching the back. This lesson looks at the "wave" of movement that travels from the feet to the shoulders, how the spine responds to the foot and hand's pressure, the shoulder and hip joint relationship, and maybe, discovering new possibilities for the backbend (Yoga wheel pose)
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Pelvic Rock with Knees open
$3.99 View DetailsThe relationship of the lumbar spine and pelvis with your hip flexors is the subject of many lessons. Here we explore it directly through the simple movement of rocking.
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Lighten the Legs with your Pelvis
$3.99 View DetailsThey say you can't lose weight doing Feldenkrais :-). But Feldenkrais once said that when the system is properly organized, the impression is one of weightlessness. Paradox indeed. This lesson explores how the pelvis can lift your legs, and the second half will take you into surprising new directions. (No spoilers here!)
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Improving Diagonals
$3.99 View DetailsWhenever I teach my "top ten" series, this lesson is a must. Not only does it re-balance the two sides of the self, it harmonizes top and bottom. Oh, and let's not forget the diagonal relationship between opposite shoulders and hips. As with so many lessons, this one leads to a surprising, functional finale.
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Improved Sitting and Reaching
$3.99 View DetailsYou reach with your whole self. At least that's the potential. This mostly seated lesson reminds us that reaching for our object of desire comes from, you guess it, the pelvis. And of course, that means the spine has to get involved.
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Heels in Circles
$3.99 View DetailsWe really don't pay enough attention to our feet. Yet how your feet and ankles work affects how you stand and walk, impacting on the organization of your hips and back. This lesson looks at how a small movement of the foot can change everything.
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Freeing the Ribs Via Shoulders and Hips
$3.99 View DetailsSo often people exclaim in surprise, "My ribs are supposed to move?" The ribs connect our shoulders and arms to the spine from one end, and the pelvis and legs to the spine from the other. This side lying lesson looks at the possibilities of side bending and how that can improve flexibility and create a new appreciation for your ribs.
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A Side and Mind Bending Adventure
$3.99 View DetailsThis lesson is a perfect example of why Feldenkrais said "It's flexible brains I'm after." You will feel revitalized in body and mind after this one. Great for those who want to improve walking.