1. Re-vitalizing toes through controlled resistance — Heel pulls / pushes toes Refreshing toes through loading pressure (WFL I #11)
2. Discussion
3. Straightening the toes --- Form determined by activity style
Altering habitual shape by reversing proximal - distal roles
4. The potential of improving total body movement through use of toes
in the Amphibian pattern of locomotion --- Foot movement improves neck's freedom
Total body software Vs. local hardware
5. Options for focusing body pressure on the foot in anti-gravity functions
Finding the accurate location through comparing response of different locations
by autonomous sensation
6. Strengthening toes — Digging sand backwards
Securing body posture in power-loaded functions
7. Spreading toes and extending them out --- Frustrated Ski
Emphasizing anchoring of foot reorganizes posture to its best
8. Awakening the gyroscopic intelligence of feet for re-stabilizing
vertical equilibrium -- Stepping on knots
Establishing stability by controlled risking of balance
9. Toes pull trunk — Trunk pulls toes
Loading dynamic power with-in streaming movement
Shoulders, Arms and Shoulder Blades
The harmonious interaction between the core and the periphery in the activity of human arms, which avoid interaction with solid ground
10. The spiral as the most effective trajectory for activating arms — Engaging the vertebrae and whole skeleton gradually and proportionally.
Releasing pain in shoulder by using spiral withdrawal of arm against resistance,
connecting the arm to its power source in the spine.
11. One shoulder blade on the wall — Articulating ribs / spine / hip / shoulder blade Resetting streamlined posture
12. Lifting arm safely and relaxing both arms
The leas resisting trajectory
13. Flattening a shoulder from the opposite hip ---
clarifying integral correspondence in the body network
Minimizing un-needed effort in shoulder disposition in standing
14. The origin of spiral movement of limbs
15. Knees between elbows --- The Isometric factor of resistance
Controlled resistance as means to maximizing efficiency and clarity.
16. Bent elbows in figure-8 — arms activate torso
Cultivating unused potential of the arms (WFL II, #78 )
17. Softening the rib-cage --- Hand attached to chest maneuvering ribs
The receptivity effect of indirect contact
Lower back
Securing a reliable bridge between upper and lower parts of the body for an undisturbed transmission of the locomotion force
18. Vulnerability of the vertical human lower back
Bearing upper body load of 5 flexible vertebra
19. “Pulling the cork out of the bottle” and “Hanging the picture on the wall”
Decompression of the lower back
20. Differences in human bipedals Vs. quadrupeds
Stepping on heals or balls of feet
21. Fists drag tissues — Emergency self-care treatment
Releasing the lower back’s defensiveness by intentionally supporting
its reflexive need to shorten
22. Empowering lumbar force --- foot thrusts a strip in frontal sit-up
Transforming vulnerability of over-loose lumbar vertebrae into a reliable
and firm axis
23. Half circles and pendulums in pulling out the cork and hanging the picture
Multi-dimensional releasing the length of the lumbar segment by drawing away
spine's polarities from each other
24. Diaper — passive cancellation of an over in-curved lower back
Using body-weight to streamline the spine-pelvis bridge
25. Total body rotation as one unit - Setting a common denominator of harmony
Releasing lower back discomfort.
26. One-unit rocking — Lateral oscillations, head-to-knees, in the wrap loop
Re-locating each vertebra back to its optimal alignment by using
one’s own body-load
27. One-unit rocking - demo
28. Lateral translation of the torso on forearms — Closed cycle feedback
The healing factor of global movement in space, without any relative movement
between specific vertebrae
29. Active reversal of vertebra tendency to react to challenge by in-curving —
Inviting a sunk in vertebrae to push out
Clarifying orientation of the blind and weak lumbar region by feedback of touch
30. The wrap - A loan of upright posture
Securing alignment in dynamic movement
31. Releasing lower back distress by providing experience of leaning
with full contact Small roller diagonally along spine-hip line
32. Intentional projecting of Sit-bone on top of heel -- Training in optimal posture Using a strip to sharpen self perception as greenhouse conditions
for learning in standing and walking
33. Aligning the legs by articulating the spine
Axis accommodates extremities (Barby legs)
Knees
Putting the spring in the step The major propulsion generator in the shock absorbing chain of the body axis
34. Passive dandling lower legs in sitting
The easiest release of knees stress by gravity
35. Safe and easy getting in and out of a chair — Sparing the knee
the peak stress at the crucial moment of taking detaching from the chair
Navigating the transmission of force to by-pass the knee with self help of hands
36. Knee Bends / Straightens a knee
Passivity as a learning strategy for de-programming counter-productive
habitual patterns and enabling openness to new organization
(BFL I, #24, BFL II, #49)
37. Knee to elbow in coordination patterns of walking on all fours—
Software vs. hardware
Knee to same/opposite elbow for upgrading walking harmony
38. Knees in stairs or slope --- The inclining positioning of the trunk
to reduce confrontation with gravity
Transforming upward orientation into horizontal propulsion
39. Knees in stairs - The practice
The social consideration of giving up the uprightness
40. Squatting — Ultimate flexion of knees while withstanding full body load
The spiral and Sphincters which facilitates the way down and up
41. Relieve to knees by Self massage to lower legs calfs
Counter-Pulling tissues for providing more length for knee function
42. Strengthening the knee in the strip — Involving the total skeleton in navigation
of the elevated locomotion force
Walking on Jupiter and on the moon
43. Lateral correction of knees alignment in relation to the spine, pelvis, toes
Correcting direction of knees in real time and gravity of walking
44. Re-training the Alignment of knee in relation to the factor of sit bone projection
on top of heel
Negotiating bio mechanical direction of knee in relation to the belly button
and to the walking direction
45. Interaction of knee / spine in breast stroke swimming Restoring gratified spine-leg coordination as nature meant
46. Refreshing the knees — Shaking legs in the horse’s pattern
Adopting solutions from the evidently proved vitality in the living world
Neck
The bottle neck of posture The built in gyroscopic agent for vertical alignment While also responsible for posting the periscope of senses
47. Strategies of aligning the neck through contact, resistance
or selective inhibition
Self touch of hand as an instrument for clarity and mechanical change,
which the body does not know how to do by itself
48. Strengthening the neck in tapping the head — Rhythmic pulsations
reinforces structure resistance
Applying power only after first securing consistent and safe trajectory
of body alignment ( BFL I #8 )
49. Skull / jaw differentiation — Activating the Axis & Atlas vertebrae
Systematic articulating of every level of skull - neck relationship
50. Head / Chest Zigzag — The lateral dimension of spine movement
Moving upper spine with neck through space as one unit to elicit articulation
in the stiff zone of spine between the shoulder blades ( WFL II, #15)
51. The Indian dance gesture - Lateral translation of neck
The uncommon dimension of neck
52. Ironing neck by full body weight in plough position
The ultimate correction of neck for those who can do it
53. Drawing out the neck from the basement of the skull - Hand in hand in the strip
Contribution of gravity to personal height
54. Aligning the neck with a feather touch — Back of fingers maneuvers cheek’s skin
The gentler way for posting the head in spontaneous perfection ( WFL I, #44 )