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Human movement starter kit | Seven lessons to explore every plane
Seven best series | A flexible low back | Happy hands and arms | Free your hips | Wake up your spine | Effortless posture | De-stress and calm | Unwind your neck and shoulders
Anatomy | Spine and pelvis | Hips and legs | Ribs | Feet and ankles | Hands and arms | Upper back and shoulders | Jaw, eyes, and neck | Breathing
Fundamentals | Flexion and rolling | Extension and diagonals | Side bending and twisting
Skeletal life workshops | Graceful posture | Elegant expansion | The Five Lines | Trusting balance
Balancing | Balance in standing | Finding the top of the hip | Standing up from a chair or the floor
Calm and de-stress | Gentle pressing and rolling | The body pattern of anxiety/Four-part breathing | 19 short lessons to relieve tension
Chair lessons | Movement basics in a chair (ten 20-minute lessons)
Activities | Touch toes, squat, straighten legs | Run, walk, hike | Ski | Bike | Swim | Hands: Type, knit, play music | Lessons IN walking | Power for your legs | Using motor imagery | Lengthening
Tips and tricks | 65 short sequences around 5-15 minutes each.
Esalen workshop—Moshe’s overview of the method | Lessons 1-45
Longer series from trainings | Lessons commonly taught in professional trainings.
Human movement starter kit (limited-access plan)
Seven best series—seven sets of seven (limited-access plan)
Anatomy (requires all-access plan)
Spine and pelvis
Gentle lessons for tender muscles and tired brains
85 Tilt knees, rotate spine, plunk pelvis, 39 min
86 Tilt knees, rotate spine, lengthen arms, 42 min
87 Tilt knees, rotate spine, fold chest and shoulders, 37 min
88 Slow spine like a chain with lots of sensing, 21 min
89 Dipping the hips with a rolled blanket, 30 min (part of the effortless posture lessons)
90 Soft spine, curling and uncurling, 43 min
91 Tilt knees, roll chest and head, 24 min
Unlock your pelvis (includes clocks)
99 Pelvic clock #1, round and arch, 35 min
100 Basic pelvic clock, 33 min
101 Tilt legs to come to side sit, 41 min
102 Roll the pelvis and soften the low back (knees out to side), 32 min
103 Not the usual pelvic clock, 34 min
104 Pelvic clock with wax, 40 min
105 Asymmetrical pelvic clock, 40 min
More pelvis and clock lessons (recorded later so out of numerical sequence)
576 Appropriate use of the abdomen with rolling pelvis, 42 min
577 Upper back clock, strong use of abdomen, 34 min
578 Low back clock, more practice with abdomen, 37 min
579 Pelvic clock in three positions, 38 min
580 Clocks three ways with head and chin, 34 min
581 Zen sitting, clocks with head and nose, 38 min
Hips and legs
Integrate your legs
113 Lengthen leg, roll chest, slide towards foot, 43 min
114 Painting the floor, articulating hip joints, 35 min
115 Foot and hip discrimination, 30 min
116 Connect ankles to hips and low back, part 1, 28 min
117 Connect ankles to hips and low back, part 2, 29 min
118 Mobilize pelvis to carry the legs, 37 min
119 Twirling legs, 36 min, and part 2: More flexible than a child/Perfecting the self-image, 40 min
Gentle lessons for meditative hips
120 Hip and shoulder circles, 43 min
121 Magic back lesson, coordinate hips and shoulders, 37 min
122 Hip forward and backward with breath, 35 min
123 Press heavier side of pelvis, 27 min
124 Meditation on the left hip, 30 min
125 Rolling head, coordinating hips, 30 min
126 Rolling and floating, 41 min
Ribs
Feet and ankles
Hands and arms
Upper back and shoulders
Release your jaw, eyes, and neck
Breathing
Fundamentals
Flexion and rolling
Extension and diagonals
Basic extension: Foundation of a strong back
323 Basic extension, 33 min
324 Variation on basic extension, 35 min
325 A flexible upper back, part 1, 28 min and part 2, 30 min
326 Slow tilting of right leg part 1, 29 min and part 2, both legs, 25 min
327 Bendy hips and spine, 41 min
328 Drumming the knees, 35 min
329 Arms frame head, 40 min
More extension for a strong and flexible back
330 Head and neck find power in the back, part 1, 26 min
331 Head and neck find power in the back, part 2, 24 min
332 Lift head with knee out to side, 38 min
333 Spiraling head on top of the spine, leaning on elbow like a baby, 33 min
334 Tilt legs to come to side sitting, 41 min
335 Pushing through toes to connect to the head, 38 min
336 Lifting the head on all fours, 31 min
Side bending and twisting
Skeletal life workshops
Balancing
582 Hopping #1, 35 min
Coming soon: 583-589. These are out of sequence as they will be recorded later.
Coming soon:
Centering for strength, 439-435
Hoisting vs. levering, 436-452
Calm and de-stress
Short tips I put together for the pandemic. These do not follow the regular numerical sequence.
Calming
Shoulders
Low back
Dynamic sitting
Jaw and eyes
Coming soon:
Finding resilience, 467-473
Moving out of pain, 474-480
Chair lessons
Activities
Coming soon:
Help for sitting upright, 562-568
Help for sitting cross-legged, 569-575
This space populated soon with amazing lengthening lessons!
Zoe's Tips and Tricks
65 short sequences around 5-15 minutes each.
Breathe and calm
Shoulders and neck
Easy upright sitting
Hips and low back
Spine and upper back
More spine and upper back
Stand, walk, and balance
Schedule for AM and PM
Esalen workshop (45 lessons)
This special section is not part of the main index. It is numbered according to the Esalen workshop list.
Longer series from trainings (154 lessons)
This special section is not part of the main index. Each series is numbered independently.
Introduction
Amphibian lessons - 7
Arms integrate on stomach - 8
Bell Hand - 7
Book on the foot - 7
Bridging - 7
Circling head - 11 (coming soon!)
Dead bird (eyes, neck) - 4
Five lines - 11
Four points - 4
Gluing the lungs - 4
Grasping the chin - 4
Highest point of the hip - 7
Hooking the big toe - 7
Hurdle lessons (scissoring legs) - 3
Judo roll - 6 (coming soon!)
Leg over to stand - 4
Leg swing and footprint - 9
Pelvic clock - 8
Pretzel legs - 7
Reaching like a skeleton - 4
Rhythmical breathing - 5
Sawing arms - 10
Sitting on heels - 6
Splits - 4