"Through awareness we can learn to move with astonishing lightness and freedom - at almost any age - and thereby improve our living circumstances, not only physically...but emotionally, intellectually and spiritually."

Moshe Feldenkrais

The Heavenly Gait & Other Earthly Pleasures

The Heavenly Gait & Other Earthly Pleasures is the result of a twenty year exploration of the Feldenkrais Method. It contains a course of lessons that have the potential to profoundly affect your day-to-day experience of life and the pleasure you feel in ‘body and soul’.

The set contains seven 45 –50 minute Awareness Through Movement (ATM) lessons, one 18-minute mini-lesson and a 30-minute lecture called “Is the Universe Friendly?”

ATM lessons are not exercises in the traditional sense. They are pleasurable and deeply relaxing movement explorations that can have a profound influence on the way you think, move, feel and function. In each lesson you do only one ‘exercise’ and you do it with a minimum of force and a maximum of conscious awareness. You are guided through a sequence of movements that are all related to a functional theme such as walking or bending. It becomes easier as you learn to spread the effort to move throughout your body. The freedom you experience after a lesson can make everyday actions feel like bliss.

The lessons on these Cds have many layers and can be done again and again with continuing benefit.

CD 1 - 1 Is the universe friendly? – Is a talk designed to help you get the most from the CD series. It features a case study and ranges in content from the influence of gravity on your body through to the affect your perceptions have on the way you function.

CD 1 - 2 Where are you now? – Explores the affect of paying attention to your body, standing balance and the experience of being centred.

CD 2 Elbow to knee - Considers the way you bend to perform everyday actions such as tying your shoelaces. It makes bending easy.

CD 3 Head, pelvis & ribs – Explores the fundamentally important connection between your head and pelvis by gently twisting in a variety of orientations.

CD 4 Spine like a chain - Gives you an opportunity to move each vertebrae of your spine in several directions. It will give you a very different experience of your back.

CD 5 Pelvic clock - Is an ingenious lesson that uses circular pelvic movements in a variety of orientations. It gives tremendous freedom through the hips, pelvis and lower back.

CD 6 Hands on your neck - Is a sitting lesson that explores seeing, turning and the connection of your limbs through your torso. It makes turning and reaching easy and gives a great experience of freedom in your head, neck and shoulders.

CD 7 Breathing - Explores the notion that you already breathe well; it’s just a matter of feeling it. It utilises breath observation, breath retention and manipulation of the space within your body.

CD 8 A foot you’d love to stand on - Explores the relationship between the bones of your feet and the rest of your body. It asks you to gently pull your toes in a variety of orientations that assist you to feel the connection from your feet right through to your head. It generates great ease in standing.


Home What is the Feldenkrais Method? What is the Alexander Technique? What is EFT? Products Articles and Case Studies Schedule Testimonials Links Bio Contact Information Newsletter Scenes from a Lesson (Slideshow) Shopping Cart Bang Bang Salsa	"Through awareness we can learn to move with astonishing lightness and freedom - at almost any age - and thereby improve our living circumstances, not only physically...but emotionally, intellectually and spiritually." Moshe Feldenkrais The Heavenly Gait & Other Earthly Pleasures The Heavenly Gait & Other Earthly Pleasures is the result of a twenty year exploration of the Feldenkrais Method. It contains a course of lessons that have the potential to profoundly affect your day-to-day experience of life and the pleasure you feel in ‘body and soul’. The set contains seven 45 –50 minute Awareness Through Movement (ATM) lessons, one 18-minute mini-lesson and a 30-minute lecture called “Is the Universe Friendly?” ATM lessons are not exercises in the traditional sense. They are pleasurable and deeply relaxing movement explorations that can have a profound influence on the way you think, move, feel and function. In each lesson you do only one ‘exercise’ and you do it with a minimum of force and a maximum of conscious awareness. You are guided through a sequence of movements that are all related to a functional theme such as walking or bending. It becomes easier as you learn to spread the effort to move throughout your body. The freedom you experience after a lesson can make everyday actions feel like bliss. The lessons on these Cds have many layers and can be done again and again with continuing benefit. CD 1 - 1 Is the universe friendly? – Is a talk designed to help you get the most from the CD series. It features a case study and ranges in content from the influence of gravity on your body through to the affect your perceptions have on the way you function. CD 1 - 2 Where are you now? – Explores the affect of paying attention to your body, standing balance and the experience of being centred. CD 2 Elbow to knee - Considers the way you bend to perform everyday actions such as tying your shoelaces. It makes bending easy. CD 3 Head, pelvis & ribs – Explores the fundamentally important connection between your head and pelvis by gently twisting in a variety of orientations. CD 4 Spine like a chain - Gives you an opportunity to move each vertebrae of your spine in several directions. It will give you a very different experience of your back. CD 5 Pelvic clock - Is an ingenious lesson that uses circular pelvic movements in a variety of orientations. It gives tremendous freedom through the hips, pelvis and lower back. CD 6 Hands on your neck - Is a sitting lesson that explores seeing, turning and the connection of your limbs through your torso. It makes turning and reaching easy and gives a great experience of freedom in your head, neck and shoulders. CD 7 Breathing - Explores the notion that you already breathe well; it’s just a matter of feeling it. It utilises breath observation, breath retention and manipulation of the space within your body. CD 8 A foot you’d love to stand on - Explores the relationship between the bones of your feet and the rest of your body. It asks you to gently pull your toes in a variety of orientations that assist you to feel the connection from your feet right through to your head. It generates great ease in standing.