Stephen Rosenholtz

Basic Lessons in Awareness Through Movement, Series II

With Stephen Rosenholtz, Ph.D.

Basic Lessons in Awareness Through Movement: Series IIwith Stephen Rosenholtz continues to explore posture, breathing, and the use of the imagination to increase smooth functioning and effective movement. However, the second series concentrates on movements in a chair, creeping and crawling (infant developmental sequences), and sitting/standing movements.

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With Stephen Rosenholtz, Ph.D.

Basic Lessons in Awareness Through Movement: Series IIwith Stephen Rosenholtz continues to explore posture, breathing, and the use of the imagination to increase smooth functioning and effective movement. However, the second series concentrates on movements in a chair, creeping and crawling (infant developmental sequences), and sitting/standing movements.

Each DVD consists of eight basic half-hour exercises appropriate for all ages and levels of ability.

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"Exercises with accompanying commentary that encourages one to become aware of how the body moves.... You'll find the program relaxing."—Library Journal

Series II: Intermediate



  • Rolling Fists

  • This lesson connects the movement of arms and shoulders with the movement of the pelvis. These movements are the building blocks of higher function, most directly the sport of fencing, but also more primitively the ability to reach.

  • Extend Your Spine: Lifting Head on the Stomach
  • The ability to lift the head and extend the spine to look up is a function that habit and age combine to limit our ability. In this lesson you can recover your potential to extend the spine.

  • What is Good Breathing?
  • Moshe taught that we breathe differently when happy from when we are stressed, differently when we exercise and when we are at rest. Good breathing means being able to use all of ourselves when we need to, for vitality.

  • Developmental: Creeping & Crawling
  • Our development as infants and led through stages of development that culminate in our ability to stand, walk, run, and jump. In this lesson we go back using out awareness to rediscover our earliest patterns of movement.

  • Chair Lessons: Sitting Twisting
  • We sit in chairs so much of our lives. In this lesson we explore the ability to twist while sitting, a useful function when, for example, we drive and need to look behind.

  • Holding the Foot and Rolling
  • Moshe, in one version he taught, called this lesson “Free your hip joints for agility.”

  • Elementary Eye Movement
  • This lesson explores palming over the eyes and directing our attention in a non-habitual way to our eyes and vision.

  • What is Health? Sitting to Stand, Arm Circles
  • The ability to get up and down in one motion from floor to standing is explored, using the hand and arm as a proximal pivot point. Then the ability to integrate the arm to the trunk, making arm circles where the arm and hand are the distal points moving.
Stephen Rosenholtz earned his Ph.D. in education at Stanford University in 1981. Then in 1983 he graduated from the Amherst Feldenkrais Professional Training with Dr. Moshe Feldenkrais. Since his graduation, he has maintained a practice and taught in Feldenkrais trainings worldwide. Stephen has served as educational director of trainings in Germany and Switzerland and, for the past 20 years, as educational director of the Feldenkrais training in Colima, Mexico. He currently serves as coeducationaldirector of the Mexico Feldenkrais® Training.

 

Dr. Rosenholtz is also the creator of Move Like the Animals and Monkey Moves, award-winning musical movement programs for children based on Feldenkrais’s lessons. If you have children of your own or work with them professionally, then you will certainly enjoy this series. 

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