The Dimensions of your Back and Chest

When we look at the structure and organization of the trunk, which includes the back and the rib cage, we discover that it contains more than 50 different bones (vertebrae, ribs, sternum, clavicles, etc.) and three times as many joints! This gives us an idea of its great mobility and the potential for action that we have and the different directions in which we can orient ourselves.

Although we know that we are three-dimensional beings, we usually do not use all this capacity and we reduce our actions to a small and repetitive number. This makes us smaller than we are, this shortens us and produces feelings of tension and fatigue and a lack of vitality.

In this workshop we will explore, through different ATM lessons, how to awaken this potential and put it at the service of a greater degree of satisfaction and health. When we elevate the level of our self-organization we recover more of our genius, expressiveness and desire to live fully.

Come and try just how much better you can feel by being more aware of the dimensions of your back and chest by having a more precise self-image of yourself.

This course was a 2-day online seminar that we recorded in 2022, and it contains more than 6.5 hours of Feldenkrais group lessons (“ATMs”), talks, and lectures. When practicing this course at home with the videos, we recommend distributing the lessons over 2 or 3 days.

Content

1. Talk (Welcome + Introduction to the course: Why are the “dimensions” of chest and back important?) – 6 min.
2. ATM (Drawing a map of your chest and your back) – 84 min.
3. Talk (Students’ experiences with the previous lesson) – 29 min.
4. ATM (Dibujando un círculo a tu alrededor con tus piernas) – 69 min.
5. Talk (Bring two spoons for tomorrow) – 5 min.
6. Talk (Questions & answers) – 29 min.
7. Talk (Understanding the suspensory system of the chest using daily life objects) + Demo – 13 min.
8. ATM (The arms softening the spine) – 65 min.
9. Talk (Questions and answers, avoiding back strain in previous ATM) + LAB – 29 min.
10. ATM (Breathing everywhere) – 45 min.
11. Talk (Students’ experiences from previous ATM) – 8 min.
12. ATM (Short: The arms softening the spine, cont’d) – 9 min.
13. Talk (Finishing comments) – 9 min.

Duration: 396 minutes