We can address the eyes in many ways in our explorations: in this lesson their calm, and the quality of our vision of the dark, is a marker of the overall state of the nervous system. What else can you do with this lesson? We go left and right, up and down. How about making clocks? Podcast: Play in new window Download. This happens because when your optic nerve is excited it cannot record anything except colors and shapes.
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1. Covering The Eyes (A Classic and Important Session)
In this lesson, the excitation of the optic nerve is calmed allowing for the emergence of blackness in the visual field when the eyes are covered. Covering the eyes, otherwise known as palming the eyes, is an essential metric in this lesson. By covering the eyes, we can track the progressive relaxation of the optic nerve.
2. Keep Your Eyes On The Ball
From my very first Feldenkrais workshop for the eyes it was clear that they do benefit from regular attention and specifically designed Awareness Through Movement lessons. Both of these functions are important for ongoing health, and both are addressed in my regular day workshops for the eyes the next of which is coming up on July 14th — details at the end of this post. The self-maintenance ideas below are focussed on vision improvement and eye comfort , and are drawn from many sources. They have been field tested, but not always by me. These suggestions are the ones I have found to be the most obviously helpful and achievable so far, but I am aware in my own case that more regular attention would reap greater rewards — which is of course true of pretty much everything. I will update this article whenever new suggestions come along, in order to to provide an ongoing resource. They are not numbered, because they are not in a particular order.
Keeping your eye movements soft and flexible helps you stay mobile and independent as you age. Helps you keep your balance and prevent falls. AND helps keep your neck and spine flexible and soft.
