Dear Students:
I am happy to announce that beginning September 14 through December 14, 2021, I will teach my Feldenkrais Class each Tuesday @ 11 am, (click here for more details). I promise that during one of those 14 classes I will teach in full, the Awareness Through Movement® lesson that I am featuring in this post.
Moshe Feldenkrais emphasized the importance of knowing where the actual midline is, so a student could converge his eyes at that point. When a person’s eyes meet at the middle, vision can be clear. The farther one’s eyes move to the left or right of the midpoint the less clear vision becomes. Moshe also highlighted this central line because when one finds it, the head can center itself along it’s axis. Someone that becomes conscious of balancing their head, can more evenly distribute weight through their legs.
Personally, I search for my the central axis all the time, because it allows me to function without any pain or restraints after having ankle surgery years ago. My joints can stay healthy and my eyesight in good shape when I explore lessons like the one I include here.
Finding the Midline through your Hands, Lesson: 1.Sit in a comfortable position at the edge of a chair or on the floor. You can even pleasantly kneel if you like. 2. Place your hands together in front of your chest as if in prayer. Close your eyes and sense the back of your right hand. Then sense the back of your left hand. Which hand do you feel more sensations in? Rest while sitting at the back of your chair or you can lie down on the floor. 3. In your starting position, with your eyes closed, slowly move yourhands up towards the sky & return while your right eye pays attention to the back of your right hand in space. Where do you feel the hand the most clearly? Do you know when and where you loose connection between the hand & eye? Rest when you are no longer interested in the exploration. Repeat the movements, going more slowly at the places where you loose awareness of your right hand & eye during the journey to & fro. Rest. 4. Begin again, while keeping your eyes closed, move the hands from your chest, downwards & return. Track the back of your right hand with your right eye, traveling down & on it’s way back to the starting point. Is it easier or harder to sense your limb while moving downwards compared to upwards? Rest. 5. Explore all the movements with closed eyes, while feeling the back of your left hand with your left eye, in motion. Can you tell which hand is your dominant hand? How do you know which is your non-dominant hand? Which eye are you more familiar with? Can you tell which eye you rely on more during your life for vision? 6.Study these movements with your eyelids closed while sensing the back of both hands & eyes moving in the direction above your head & downwards towards your belly. Which hand do you loose awareness of first? Become curious & slow down at the places where you are not tuned in to both hands & eyes at the same time. Sense how your pelvis and vertebral column move in relation to your head and arms.
Sometimes when I exercise I experiment with myself similarly to the lesson above. For instance if I do pushups, I focus on the back of my non-dominant hand & eye during the first set. On the second set, I attend to the other side and 
throughout the third set, I focus on both eyes & hands. This helps to better center my head to foster more symmetrical use & strengthening of my muscles.
Other times when I am walking I combine my eye/hand awareness practice, with looking back and forth at objects at different distances as described in my post, Developing Childlike Eyes. I find it to be challenging & compelling to be mindful of many things at once. Have fun creating your own experiments & opening your eyes to new ways of being.
May finding the midline help you learn to develop your attention & understand in a novel way what the saying, “keep your head on straight” means. I hope to see you in class very soon!
~Donna
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