Log AIFTT3 Segment 11 May 2011 Trainer: Larry Goldfarb Assistant: Caro van Iersel Monday 9 May 2011 AIFTT3 1001A 10.10 Discussion Learning and individual assignment for Segment 11 Trio: 1) Think about one question about an ATM. 2) What is it that you want to get out of the FI of this segment? Why and how to learn it? Coffee 11.00
AIFTT3 1002A - 11.20 ATM HOLDING THE FOOT Supine: move hand along lower leg and bring knee to chest. Different variations with this m/m ending with lifting the head and moving knee inside/outside elbow. Also in sitting. ( Amherst 1980)
AIFTT3 1003A 12.05 Talk Feedback on ATM Holding The Foot Duet: what changed? Comment as a student/as a teacher. Lunch 12.50
AIFTT3 1004A 14.10 Class Observing someone walking Trio: A & B are watching from opposite side, C is walking hence and forth. C talks about what she/he notices about her/himself. A and B ask questions to specify what they notice in terms of SPIFFER.
Tea 15.40
AIFTT3 1005A 16.00 Discussion On observing walking
AIFTT3 1006A 16.10 ATM AY 155 TWISTS AND ADVANCED TWISTS, part 1 Supine: rock with knees and head towards each other. Variations until holding one foot, lift head R/L, and rock. Also making circles in air with elbow with head lifted clockwise & counter-clockwise. (AY 155)
AIFTT3 1007A 16.45 Talk About the effect of ATM on walking Trio: look at each other in walking. Difference? Question of this segment: how address walking & standing in a FI?
Tuesday 10 May 2011 AIFTT3 1008A 10.10 Talk About SPIFFER SPIFFER: seven dimensions of action and awareness. Start with: 1) Sequence: chain of motion through skeleton consists of a) transmission b) distribution c) formation. 2) Path: line of mm in 3-dimensional space. 3) Initiation: starting place. SPIFFER is way to think about and analyze ATM & FI. Coffee 11.20
AIFTT3 1009A 11.45 Class Lifting the leg and pushing through the foot Demo with Nicoline, supine. How to lift up the leg? Duet: A picks up B’s leg and figures out self use. Demo with Bjerke: change foot to neutral. Demo with skeleton: relationship of foot to hip. Lunch 13.00
AIFTT3 1010A 14.30 ATM AY 155 TWISTS AND ADVANCED TWISTS, part 2 Supine: repeating m/m’s of part 1. In variations: rock with one/both legs, taking head R/L and move legs R/L. Use legs as a lever to get more twisting. (AY 155) Tea 15. 45
AIFTT3A 1011A 16.15 -17.15 Class Pushing through the foot Demo with Karin, supine about standing leg/jiggly leg. Duet 1: supine, A picks up B’s leg, finds the neutral and pushes through like yesterday. Duet 2: 1) A jiggles B’s legs by bending the hand (not the wrist) and oscillating B’s legs. 2) A brings B’s foot/leg to neutral and pushes leg towards head.
Wednesday 11 May 2011 AIFTT3 1012A 10.10 Hands-On Practice Standing leg Trio: help each other to find the standing leg? What can you use from the lessons we’ve already done?
Coffee 11.15
AIFTT3 1013A 10.45 Talk Finding out the standing leg Experiences of students with Lab (Trio) Standing Leg. Definition of standing and how that relates to the activity.
AIFTT3 1014A 11.35 Demo + Hands on Standing leg continued Duet: 1) B steps backwards, while A watches. 2) A lifts B’s pelvis in sitting. 3) A pushes through B’s C7/T1in sitting. Demo with Henriëtte looking for standing leg.
AIFTT3 1015A 12.25 ATM (Larry Goldfarb) SIDE BENDING SUPINE Supine: pushing away/pulling heel L/R. Sliding hand R/L along leg. M/m of tilting/turning and translating the head in different positions. Differentiation of arms and head from feet/ head. (Larry Goldfarb)
Lunch 13.20
AIFTT3 1016A 15.00 Discussion What happened in ATM SIDE TO SIDE Red Thread is side bending. Differentiating axis around which you pivot.
AIFTT3 1017A 15.30 Class Fishing for the feet and pushing through iliac crest Demo 1 with Liesbet looking for standing & jiggly legs. Duet: 1) A is looking for B’s standing leg (supine). 2) A is at head and moves B’s chest L-R from C7/T1. Demo 2 with Liesbet pushing through iliac crest. Duet: 1) A has hand on B’s ileac crest in sitting and pushes through pelvis. 2) A moves B L and then to R, each time searching for connection to foot. Tea 16.15
AIFTT3 1018A 16.35 -17.15 ATM + Hands on THE PLATE SPINNER Standing: slide one foot around the other and shift weight. Duet: A holds B’s head, ATM (cont.) Circle around feet and then make figure 8. (Gaby Yaron) Homework assignment: have people on the street eyes on horizon or not? Head in the middle or not? Duet: A checks with B fishing for feet.
Thursday 12 May 2011 AIFTT3 1019A 10.15 ATM AY 36 Caro van Iersel THE FOOT AND ITS TOES Supine and sitting: turn and bend toes in different variations. (AY 36)
AIFTT3 1020A 11.50 Hands on practice Find out which is the jiggly leg and pulling and turning the toe Caro van Iersel Duet 1 Pulling and turning the toe. 1) A fishes for B’s feet in standing, hands on C7/T1 or on ileac crest. 2) A feels which is B’s jiggly leg? 3) Supine, A pulls
and turns toes of B’s L leg. Duet 2 Pulling and bending the toe. Supine, A pulls and bends B’s toes, arm in line of the toe. Lunch 13.10
AIFTT3 1021A 14.40 Larry Goldfarb Class What are the specific consequences of ATM and FI of this morning Demo with Karin: moving metatarsals. Duet 1 Supine, A moves all B’s toes differentiated U/D. Duet 2 1) fishing for feet 2) foot easier to inside/outside? 3) If foot easier to outside, bring muscles of calf and sole of foot to each other. Tea 16.30
AIFTT3 1022A 17.00 -17.25 ATM AY 289 HIGHEST POINT OF THE HIP part 1 Standing: tilt to R and L leg lifts as a block. Variations with lifting arm, arm around ear and elbow to front/back. Duet: what happens between foot and pelvis? Stays hip joint above foot? (AY 289)
Friday 13 May 2011 AIFTT3 1023A 10.15 ATM AY 289 HIGHEST POINT OF THE HIP part 2 Standing: tilt R. Everything moves as a piece. Move R hip joint back, forward, U and D. Make circle with hip joint. (AY nr.?). Duet: jiggle and push the legs. Demo with Britta about jiggling and pushing the legs. Coffee 11.45
AIFTT3 1024A 12.05 Class Refining FI of yesterday and how to become a good practitioner Refining picking up the foot and pushing from the foot while turning lower leg. Understanding ATM gives ability to translate this in FI.
AIFTT3 1025A 12.45-13.30 ATM Larry Goldfarb ROLLING ALONG THE WALL Sitting, leaning back on wall with soles of feet together, lower arms against wall: roll pelvis forward and back. Lower head and roll pelvis. Same m/m with hands on head. (Larry Goldfarb) Duet: which leg is standing leg?
Monday 16 May 2011 AIFTT3 1026A 10.15 Talk About teaching ATM What did trainees learn last week?
AIFTT3 1027A 10.40 ATM AY 289 HIGHEST POINT OF THE HIP part 3 Standing: tilt to R/L. Highest point of hip? Hip forward and down, back and down. Circle around highest point of hip. Arm overhead and tilt L/R. Use roller to tilt L/R. Coffee 11.25
AIFTT3A 1028A 11.55 Class
Balance is an activity These lessons about balancing, an active sensory process. Balance consists of visual (eyes), vestibular (inner ear), & somatosenory system (kinestethesia). Demo with Henriëtte about translation of chest to either side. FI/Duet: 1) supine: A inds B’s C7 and translates B’s head L/R. Demo with Karin: moving head and ring of first rib L/R. FI/Duet: 2) supine: A moves B’s head with ring of first rib L/R. Lunch 13.15
AIFTT3 1029A 14.45 Demo + Hands on practice Standing leg jiggly leg and connection between head and legs Demo with Rosemarie: which way does chest lift and which leg is more solid? FI/Duet 1: 1) supine: A pushes through B’s leg L/R. 2) A lifts up B’s leg from both ends. 3) A translates head L/R. How do feet and head relate? FI/Duet 2, supine: A makes B’s standing leg more of a standing leg by making other leg more jiggly & more like frog leg. Tea 16.15
AIFTT3 1030A 16.35 Talk About strategy in FI Summer: Arlyn 3 weeks, November: Paul Newton, February and May 2012 Larry. General strategy is to go with what person is already doing and following the pattern. Find what person is doing standing or sitting in lying . Is the pattern the same?
AIFTT3 1031A 16.50 -17.20 ATM DIFFERENTIATING THE FOOT
Supine: curl/stretch toes; point toes away/towards yourself; differentiate toes from ankle.
Tuesday 17 May 2011 AIFTT3 1032A 9.40 ATM AY 241 GETTING TO KNOW THE HIPJOINTS Caro van Iersel Supine, hold knee: arch back with knee coming closer. Same m/m with variations in position of legs. Sitting: arch back while knees come closer. Same m/m with variations in position of legs. (AY 241) Coffee 10.35
AIFTT3 1033A 11.05 Class How to deal with hyper mobility Hyper mobile people lack of sense of connection and of support. Make clear connection by pushing through. Optimal m/m: imagining best possible m/m in seven categories of SPIFFER. Lab/Trio: Choose an activity; use all 7 SPIFFER categories to determine the optimal way to do it. Examples: cutting bread, climbing stairs, moving the mouse, throwing a ball. Lunch 13.10
AIFTT3 1034A 14.50 Not recorded Hands on practice Make the standing leg more of a standing leg Duet: Supine: A makes B’s standing leg more solid and B’s jiggly leg more jiggly.
AIFTT3A 1035A 16.05 Discussion About the FI MAKING THE STANDING LEG MORE OF A STANDING LEG What happened in FI? Different strategies. How does FI assignment for these two weeks work for you? Tea 16.20
AIFTT3 1036A 16.45-17.25 ATM AY 291 LIFTING THE HIGHEST POINT OF THE HIP part 4 Standing: tilt to side L/R with whole trunk as a block. Variations: swinging one leg forward/back; turning head and pivoting on foot; arms U and tilting head. (AY 291)
Wednesday 18 May 2011 AIFTT3 1037A 10.10 Class Dealing with disruptive students in class About different ways to deal with disruptive students in class. Lab: In groups of 4 with one teacher and 3 students teach part of an ATM students being disruptive. Assignment for next segment: take some challenging situation in ATM class and write Larry about it. Coffee 11.45
AIFTT3 1038A 12.10 ATM AY 268 HIP JOINTS BY WAY OF LENGTHENING part 1
Supine, arms above head, one leg long on outside of leg, toes U, other leg bent: push D with heel (long/short leg). Variations with this m/m : arms behind head/back, lifting leg, circling heel. (AY 268) Lunch 13.15 AIFTT3 1039A 14.45 Class Figuring out the Red Thread of a lesson 1) Do the ATM yourself. 2) Understand it externally. 3) Put hands on someone while they do it. Duet: Analyze pushing heel out, lifting leg up in air, &bringing pelvis down. What is the question? Next step: how to do this ATM in FI? Tea 16.25
AIFTT3 1040A 16.45 -17.35 ATM AY 506 HIP JOINTS BACKWARDS Caro van Iersel Stand: hips backward. Variations in position with same m/m: toes away from floor, hands behind head and moving elbows, turning legs out, legs together/wide. (AY 506) [Partly recorded]
Thursday 19 May 2011 AIFTT3 1041A 9.40 Class The standing leg How to use sensory experience to understand what is going on with a person? How would it feel to me? Kind of somatic n. Tests for finding a standing leg. FI/Duet: 1) A looks for B’s standing leg in walking/standing. 2) Supine, A checks B on table. 3) Supine, A makes jiggly leg more jiggly. 4) A shifts B more onto standing leg. Coffee 10.50
AIFTT3 1042A 11.15 Class The idea of perfection and more standing leg Ideal m/m is guiding light. How would people move as well/optimal as they could? How do you practice method yourself? To make the method part of yourself. Demo with Josie, making jiggly leg more jiggly and standing leg more stabile. FI/Duet: the same as in Demo with Josie. Lunch 13.20
AIFTT3 1043A Demo FI Duet [Recording not available] Tea 15.50
AIFTT3 1044A 16.25 -17.15 ATM AY 269 HIP JOINTS BY WAY OF LENGTHENING part 2 Supine: repetition of m/m’s of part 1. With variations like soles of feet together with pelvic clock, coming to the side with knees eventually going from side to side. (AY 269)
Friday 20 May 2011 AIFTT3 1045A 9.10 ATM AY 270 HIP JOINTS BY WAY OF LENGTHENING part 3
Supine, knees bent: arch/bend lower back and oscillate. Same m/m in variations. Eventually hold one leg, arch back, turn head and hold one leg, other leg above head and arch contrary to bent leg. (AY 270) Coffee 10.15
AIFTT3 1046A 10.40 Talk Use and share of teaching material What FI techniques have we done? Practical things about the web site. Which ATM’s do exist: Alexander Yanai, San Francisco Training, etc. Theme of standing and walking Standing as an activity: moving weight. Explanation of the ‘Bull’s Eye’: way of describing m/m. The outer circle is a meaningful action, a verb, middle circle is a movement gestalt, & the inner circle is about local relationships. Coffee 12.30
AIFTT3 1047A 12.30-13.20 ATM STANDING IN THE HIGHEST PART OF THE HIP part 4 Review and complete. Book recommendation: Liz Koch, The Psoas Book