The Master Moves by Moshe Feldenkrais

Author:Moshe Feldenkrais [Feldenkrais, Moshe]
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
ISBN: 9781732241312
Google: blvSzAEACAAJ
Amazon: 091699015X
Publisher: International Feldenkrais Federation
Published: 2019-05-22T21:00:00+00:00

LESSON EIGHT:

THE SEVENTH CERVICAL

Please stand on your knees. Put the back of your right hand into your left palm, and place them on the floor in front of you; place your forehead into your hands. Now would you please rock your body with your pelvis, forward and backwards. Observe what you do, and what happens to the rest of your body. Now note, when you go forward, does the middle of your spine go nearer to the floor, or away from the floor? Can you feel which vertebrae go away from the floor? And do you draw your stomach in? And where do you round your spine? Which vertebrae get rounded?

Go slower. Now imagine, you know where your anus is. Go from the anus to your spine and note which vertebra is the first to go up when you go forward. Most people have five lumbar vertebrae. Which vertebra behind your chest goes the highest? You have three floating ribs. Is the last of the floating ribs moving upwards or isn’t it? Does that part of your back round as you continue the movement? When I ask, I don’t expect an answer. I know the answer. So keep it to yourself. Between your shoulders, you have a large vertebra behind the seventh cervical. Many people have a lot of fat around it and it’s very awkward for them. When you do the movement now, does this vertebra move somewhere? Can you feel that the shoulder blades go together as you go back and when you go forward the shoulder blades go apart? Many people have no idea that that can happen. And they can’t do it unless they make tremendous idiotic efforts.

Now make your breathing shallow and don’t push that vertebra so that you won’t be able to move afterwards. Make a small movement so that the spine between the shoulder blades goes forward and back, but not to the limit of your ability, but to just the beginning. Then you have a chance to find out what it feels like and improve it.

Now, move your pelvis forward, so that the middle of the spine between the shoulder blades moves more forward and the shoulder blades remain so that you feel that the spine between your shoulder blades has moved forward. Stay there; then collapse the spine so that it falls in between the shoulder blades, and the shoulder blades join to touch one another. You can’t do that?

Stop; lie on the floor on your stomach. Now put both elbows on either side of your body as if you were to stand on them. Both hands are forward like a dog or a sphinx. Your shoulders stand over your elbows. That’s what a dog would do, because he’s intelligent. The elbows should be not too near, not too far. You must judge for yourself. It should feel that you could support someone on your shoulders.

Now look up to the horizon, and sink your spine in between your shoulders and join the shoulder blades.

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