Rolling motion is a combination of rotational motion with translational motion.

Our body should form kind of a hoop that will give us the support from the floor for organizing our body in the rolling motion.
Moshe Feldenkrais used the rolling motion in his activity as a martial artist as a way for safer falling. When Moshe developed the FM, the rolling concept became important in his ATM® lessons for improvement of our awareness to the environment, to gravity and balance, affecting the general organization of our body.

The concept of rolling became part of many AY lessons, also in Moshe’s workshops and trainings.

As an example, we can look at ATM®s of Baby Rolls and Head Under the Frame (Judo Roll) to sense the different directions of Rolling.

In the workshop we will experience the rolling motion, emphasizing the use of gravity (potential energy) to roll the body, changing our position through powerless action (reversibility). ATM® lessons will provide Moshe’s ideas of rolling to improve our orientation to the environment and ideas from Moshe’s judo will give us aspects of falling that are hidden in the rolling motion, thus building our confidence in connection to the floor. understanding the possibilities of continuation. 

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