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I do apologize for the crackling. You can skip this if sound quality matters to you at all! If you persist and do it, you just may find yourself with a lengthened neck.

The previous lesson referred to is From clarifying the hips to turning and lifting the head. And I'll investigate whether it was my turtleneck sweater interacting with the mic that caused this sound!

This lesson continues from the previous week (for which the recording unfortunately failed--you can find an outline at this page on Feldy Notebook).

We're clarifying the hip joints and finding the magic path of the head in space for a effortless turning, extension and lifting of the head, somewhere in between side-lying and face down, and somewhere in between side-lying and face up.

In this lesson, we're organizing the eyes and extending the spine--with some adjustments to the head-neck relationship on the way.

This extensor lesson may have you seeing the world in a whole new way. What other limitations in the world are limitations in your own organization?

Oh dear; philosophy and sociology rear their heads. I'm not really into personalizing responsibility like this. Let's have a long blog post about that when I'm not heading off to catch a plane.

This is the first of two lessons in the January 15 Workshop: Weight and Weightlessness, 2011. We're in sidelying, finding how to manage the weight of the long leg in various directions/configurations.

It's a mash-up of Mia & Gaby's lesson (1977 #9) and Moshe's AY #232 (minimal movements lying on the side, for those following along at home.

The second lesson is Walking backward--or in a recording from a couple of years ago, Walking backward.

Chronic tension of the lumbar and neck extensors is a fundamental pattern of limitation. This lesson addresses these areas actively and passively, with ingenious variations that address some key "hidden spots," particularly in the upper back and neck.

This third lesson in the fingers-to-spine series continues to play with the independence of each finger [second lesson coming soon--the recording didn't work]--in relation now to extension, across the shoulders. This is a rare lesson: we do "both sides at once" from about a third of the way in.

Where does flexibility come from? Why is it that we can only move so far, and then we stop? Tight muscles? Bad joints?--Or habits?

With a certain obsessive focus I return from three weeks of holidays to come back to the last theme I was teaching....the raising and lowering of the head will be familiar from the Lowering the head lesson.

My niece is at that stage of figuring out how to balance that big heavy head at the top of a small neck--tiny little vertebrae without a lot of big muscles around them--as she heads off running down the street. It's fun to watch.

This lesson may broaden the resources available to you in keeping a good head on your shoulders!