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This is the second of two lessons in the January 15 Workshop: Weight and Weightlessness, 2011. In the first lesson, Lifting a long leg, we were in sidelying, finding how to manage the weight of the long leg in various directions/configurations. This got us using our spines and relating ourselves heel to pelvis to head.

Now we're on to weightlessness: finding the reflexes in standing and the lengthening of the head up and forwards as the hip joint goes back and down, to turn walking into a gentle springing orchestration of reflexes.

One of the great mysteries of Feldenkrais: how does that "phenomenological weight loss" happen? I weigh x pounds when I arrive for the lesson; I weigh the same an hour later when it's over. How can I feel so much lighter on my feet?

This lesson explores the question at that very moment of shifting weight onto a foot.