The Highest Point Over the Hip Joint

$50.00

Experience lightness, length, and ease in standing and walking.

By Al Wadleigh, GCFP
4 Feldenkrais lessons, MP3 Download or Streaming

You are not using muscle to balance; you are organizing over your skeletal structure.

The Highest Point Over the Hip Joint is a four-lesson Feldenkrais® audio series for experienced movers that helps you rediscover how to stand with clarity and ease. By refining your sense of the highest point of the hip joint — and its connection to the heel and spine — these lessons make standing feel lighter, turning steadier, and walking more fluid, shifting balance away from effort and toward reliable skeletal support.

This series explores how to organize yourself over the apex of support at the hip joint — the place where going too far in any direction causes you to sink, and coming into alignment allows you to rise.

Through careful variations — side to side, forward and back, circles, turning, arching, walking, and dynamic transitions — you refine:

The relationship between the heel and the hip joint
The vertical line of skeletal support
The difference between standing and holding
How to move without losing your axis

When this becomes clear, something quiet shifts.

Standing requires less effort.
Turning feels lighter.
Walking becomes more continuous and fluid.

You are not using muscle to balance; you are organizing over your skeletal structure.

Lessons Include:

Lesson 1 – Clarifying the Line from Heel to Hip (44:32)
Lesson 2 – The Apex of Support (55:54)
Lesson 3 – Effortless Balance (57:26)
Lesson 4 – Walking from the Hip Joint (54:29)

Listen to the Introduction

For Movers Who Enjoy Refinement

This series is ideal if you enjoy subtle exploration in standing and are curious about refining balance rather than working hard for it.

You don’t need to be advanced — just curious, patient, and willing to notice small differences.

If you’ve been practicing movement for some time you may find this work especially rewarding.

How to Approach the Lessons

Move through the series slowly. On your first pass just do one lesson per day or every other day. Give yourself time for your nervous system to integrate.

Drawn from Dr. Moshe Feldenkrais’s Alexander Yanai (AY) lessons known as Standing on One Leg — AY 289-292.

A Personal Note

I love these lesson. I return to them periodically.

Why? Because over time, habits accumulate and sensation can become obfuscated. When that happens, this series restores clarity. It sharpens the line from heel to hip. It reminds me what standing actually is.

It's like a musician returning to scales — not out of obligation, but to stay in tune.