Feldenkrais Access – The Principle of Oppositional Movement

Oppositional movement is essential to healthy organization and played a significant role in Dr. Moshe Feldenkrais’ compositional strategies in both his Functional Integration, and in his Awareness Through Movement lessons. As human beings in motion, we rely on our internal counterbalancing mechanisms to help us maintain our equilibrium in space, from one moment to the next. With good organization, as some parts of our self move forward, other parts move backward, enabling our center of mass to stay over our base of support. When our capacity for oppositional movement is inhibited, significant stress is placed on our musculature, and our comfort and ease of movement is severely compromised.

Introducing The Principle of Oppositional Movement

In this beautifully filmed workshop, Olena Nitefor and David Zemach-Bersin present original Awareness Through Movement and Functional Integration to demonstrate and evoke the reorganizing effect of oppositional movement in a variety of orientations including working with rollers, sitting and prone. The Principle of Oppositional Movement will help you to restore your own capacity for counterbalance within action, and will increase the potency of your Functional Integration lessons.

What You’ll Learn In The Principle of Oppositional Movement

FI Demos:

• Joining with Precision
• Finding Balanced Action
• Detecting Differences with Symmetrical Self-Use
• Oppositional Movement in Bending
• Oppositional Movement on the Stomach, Part I & II
• A Three-Dimensional Approach in FI
• Full Mobility of the Spine
• Finding the Support

ATM Lessons:

• Basic Oppositional Movement Sitting on a Roller
• Touching the Floor in Standing
• Bending Movements of the Head on a Chair
• Bending Right and Left
• Fundamental Properties of Movement
• Continuation on the Knees
• Mobilizing the Spine with Your Head Like a Pendulum

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