A Glimpse of Leg - 3 - Legs to Chest
Explore the connections between the legs and chest - how they reciprocally allow relaxation and support.
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A Glimpse of Leg - 2 - Leg Lines
Draw imaginary lines down your legs to feel into the hip sockets and explore ways of improving the alignment. Notice how more level hips improve balance, posture, and silhouette.
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A Glimpse of Leg - 1 - Leg Circles
Feel deeply into the hip socket from sitting and tummy-lying by circling the feet.
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ReCentering for Sports and Sanity - 9 - Tippy Top Tongue
An intro taster lesson and/or an easy lesson to bring together the previous Recentering lessons “Everything, Right Here, All At Once”: center plane, infinity hips center point, spine like a wave, diagonals front and back, playing with your elbows, inner and outer space, top and bottom, twist around your center and tippy top tongue. Hands and feet mirror the center line with everything you can bring to it.
Adapted from “Classical Mechanics: Poise 4” as taught by Andrew Gibbons.
Wednesdays 9:30 am and 6:30 pm. BY ZOOM New Students: Register here
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ReCentering for Sports and Sanity - 7 - Inner and Outer Space
Boldly go where you haven’t been: deep into your internal and outer space, all the while holding your center. An eye exploration for the whole body.
Adapted from “Esalen Workshop: Reeducation of the Eyes” by Moshe Feldenkrais.
Wednesdays 9:30 am and 6:30 pm. BY ZOOM New Students: Register here
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ReCentering for Sports and Sanity - 6 - Balancing Top/Bottom, Chest/Pelvis, Sternum/Sacrum
Stability and Flexibility to Go With The Flow
This ‘ReCentering’ variation explores the internal diagonals from sternum to sacrum and the opposite diagonal from between shoulder blades to the pubis. These torso diagonals balance the front/back and top/bottom: flexibility within stability.
Adapted from “Gentle Fingers and Ribbons” lesson as taught by Alan Questel
Wednesdays 9:30 am and 6:30 pm. BY ZOOM New Students: Register here
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Awareness in the Sanctuary - Yearning - 4 - Inner Alignment
The practical can also be the spiritual with intention. Align your spine for strength, flexibility and clarity.
Free and open to the public. Appropriate for all body types, levels of fitness, spiritual or religious orientation.
Thursdays in July, 9:30 AM, in the BHC Sanctuary and by Zoom (register here).
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ReCentering for Sports and Sanity - 5 - Play From The Elbows
Wednesdays 9:30 am and 6:30 pm. BY ZOOM New Students: Register here
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Awareness in the Sanctuary - Yearning - 3 - Heart as Compass
The practical can also be the spiritual with intention. This week the intention is dual: have a deep, satisfying upper back stretch, and focus awareness on the heart.
Free and open to the public. Appropriate for all body types, levels of fitness, spiritual or religious orientation.
Thursdays in July, 9:30 AM, in the BHC Sanctuary and by Zoom (register here).
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ReCentering for Sports and Sanity - 4 - Meeting in the Center: Diagonals Front and Back
A familiar lesson with a new focus. How do you align your “corners” (hips and shoulders) with your center line? Can you find better left/right, front/back balance for greater stability to move with abandon?
Wednesdays 9:30 am and 6:30 pm. BY ZOOM New Students: Register here
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Awareness in the Sanctuary - Yearning - 1 - Inner Vision
The eyes move and focus. And in doing so, affect the entire body. Close your eyes to track how smoothly you look forward, back, side to side, and to sense how the entire body shifts with the movement. As the lesson develops, “see” an image of what you desire to attune to where your vision is clear, and where you lose focus.
Awareness in the Sanctuary, hosted by the Bethlehem Hebrew Congregation, is in its fifth year. Join BHC member and Guild Certified Feldenkrais Practitioner® Jacki Katzman with special introductions by Rabbi Donna Kirshbaum. Free and open to the public. Appropriate for all body types, levels of fitness, spiritual or religious orientation.
Thursdays in July, 9:30 AM, in the BHC Sanctuary and by Zoom (register here).
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ReCentering for Sports and Sanity - 3 - Spine Like A Wave
Each vertebra has a role in holding the centerline of the spine. Stack the vertebrae for fluid spinal action.
Wednesdays 9:30 am and 6:30 pm. BY ZOOM New Students: Register here
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ReCentering for Sports and Sanity - 2 - Transition Point
A variation on the “Dual Pelvic Clocks” lesson to explore the center point, the axis that the center rotates around.
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Wednesdays 9:30 am and 6:30 pm. BY ZOOM New Students: Register here
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Feeling spun, off balance, akimbo, floating, sinking, dizzy, sunken? We are all in different bodies than we inhabited a couple of years ago. This series is to bring us back to center. It will be a combination of familiar lessons presented to bring fresh insights, and a few new lessons I’ve been meaning to learn and teach. Of course, student requests are always welcome.
New Student Registration for the series. Continuing students use ongoing login. $40/month or $15/individual class. PayPal or Venmo: jackisue@aol.com. Or Jacki Katzman, PO Box 116, Bethlehem, NH 03574
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This May, Full Body Gardening - 5- Soft Hand Weeding
Movement hacks to save your back in the garden.
Using the big muscles of the back to move the hands and arms frees your hands from tension. The better to pluck that weed, pick that tomato, tickle the puppy etc.
Wednesdays 9:30 am and 6:30 pm. BY ZOOM New Students: Register here
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This May, Full Body Gardening - 4 - From Standing to Planting
Movement hacks to save your back in the garden.
A long back and neck make all the difference when gardening chores have you bending over. Find stability in bending, and take it step further. Imitate your grandkids and learn to easily go down to the ground and back up
Wednesdays 9:30 am and 6:30 pm. BY ZOOM New Students: Register here
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This May, Full Body Gardening - 3 - Pruning
Movement hacks to save your back. Do you use entire back and shoulders to direct and power cuts? Do you ground down into your pelvis for leverage and safety when lopping bigger branches. Do you remember that the softer the belly, the more protected the back? I, too, forget . That’s what this session is for.
Wednesdays 9:30 am and 6:30 pm. BY ZOOM New Students: Register here
Read MoreThis May, Full Body Gardening - 2 - Digging
Movement hacks to save your back. Using your heaviest bones and muscles to power down, with guidance and support from ribs, ankles, hands and the pelvic floor.
Wednesdays 9:30 am and 6:30 pm. BY ZOOM New Students: Register here
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