Can this movement, The Skydiver, solve INSOMNIA?, GET TO SLEEP, Relax your back, Calm your system

Is your system running the Ready-to-Go stress pattern at a high idle?
Is your insomnia an expression of the high-idle of stress? This movement is a pandiculation of the Arching Back Pattern, The Landau Reaction, Thomas Hanna's Green-Light Pattern, an exploration of turning down specific stress response tensions.
Remember, do not go into any strain, discomfort or pain while doing these movements.
These are the practice videos for my clients.
This sequence was developed by Eric Cooper Somatics ©2020
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Undo your specific patterns of tension, postural difficulties, stiffness, and pain.
If you're stuck in a problem that relates to tension, I may be able to help you. The best way to do that is to email me at [e-mail]
RUclips Chapters
0:00 Intro. Try this if you can't sleep a night.
0:28 The position and rock the hips as a 'before' assessment
0:42 Putting the parts of the movement together
2:02 1st Skydiver pandiculation cycle
2:33 2nd cycle
3:11 3rd cycle
3:39 More about insomnia and how to practice this movement
4:04 4th cycle
4:33 5th cycle with arm assist that makes the whole movement much easier
4:52 another cycle with arm assist
5:18 another cycle with arm assist and rocking chair addition
5:49 Try this if you need to calm down. The last cycle
6:25 Rock hips after to observe the change
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The Skydiver, A movement for insomnia, Relax your back, Calm your system

[@LaoiseAnne]

Felt my collarbone and sides of neck. Defo one I will revisit. Thanks Eric! ❤

[@ericcoopersomatics]

This is a powerful movement. Although it is a broad brushstroke that will cover a lot of territory, It doesn't offer as much chance to be gentle with the lesson that you are giving your nervous system on how to settle down the tensions of the back.
In all of this big contraction, look for the places and parts of lines that don't know how to open.
Can you find the places in the ribs where it is hard to sense tension.
One caveat, if you are finding a lot from the neck, I encourge you to re-focus the movement to be back of torso, and back ribs. The neck is just a cantilever that brings the head up, lets have very little effort in the neck, no straining at all. Where does the arching back not know how to relax? Where does the breath not come into the back as you lower down?
Can you lower in a way that settles the nervous system.
Calm the system. That is what this movement is for.
You can go further in looking at the back lines/spaces with these other videos:
*Relax your BACK Playlist,* in order from Gentle to Most Powerful Pandiculaitons ruclips.net/p/PLFLw4vgr7ayg05XG5CH42QxHkgLtp8t8c&si=u8c4UGZqG0U3Qeah

[@LaoiseAnne]

Thanks for the guidance Eric. Appreciate all your videos ❤❤

[@rayac3916]

I am astonished how effective this is for me! I feel anxious until I do this movement, then I am able to fall asleep totally relaxed!

[@mammybelle7302]

Looks inviting. I'll try this movement tonight. Thank you.x

[@ericcoopersomatics]

Well? Did it work?

[@mammybelle7302]

@@ericcoopersomatics I loves it. I do it before bed. I feel a deep sigh. Again, Thank you. It's fun, too.

[@2fastnfurious4u]

Did you find what's the connection with this exercise and better rest? I think it's reducing FHP and opening the chest, though lifting all fours is too aggressive for my already protruding belly and ribs

[@ericcoopersomatics]

This is a more powerful intermediate/advanced movement. The pandiculations of the back allow you to turn down the very tensions that are pressing your belly forward and making it protrude.
The process involves taking back voluntary control of muscle tension that has been running involuntarily. In this case, the tension of the back. To take back voluntary control involves voluntarily tightening muscles to over-ride the tension autopilot.
This movement and some of the others use the floor to press forward against, limiting the actual amount of extension of the back.
Some other options for relaxing the diagonals of the back include:
Gentle:
Side Lying Version: Oh, The Places Your Back Pocket Can Go A very gentle movement to relax a tight, sore back. ruclips.net/video/RhNxOEUJKuM/видео.html
Moderately powerful:
Whoa, Nellie! Practice | Calm Down, Gentle relax of the long arch of the back |2023
A gentle uncluttered teaching. 9m:06s ruclips.net/video/aNtsjZK0kqE/видео.html
The Whoa, Nellie X, Relax the Diagonals of your Back 10m:12s
ruclips.net/video/U6EkgcIO_8M/видео.html
More powerful:
The Wishbone | Pandiculation for a deep RELAX of your BACK - This is the one I usually do before bed 7m11s Release tension in your low-back, Relax the long diagonals of the back, decompress the spine.
The Wishbone, a somatic movement developed by Eric Cooper, that helps to bring you out of the high-idle of stress tension. ruclips.net/video/D8AJ3J9qWc8/видео.html
The Amplified Angel Wing. Free your torso twist with this advanced pandiculation 4m:56s
ruclips.net/video/BOCIvUYDJ4w/видео.html
The Back Twist | Advanced Somatic Movement to Relax the X of the back
ruclips.net/video/89dsee3QoRk/видео.html

[@2fastnfurious4u]

@@ericcoopersomatics Thanks a lot for your reply 🙏

[@shannonsallows7614]

I have restless legs syndrome and Somatics helps with my body. Do you have any suggestions to help calm my legs?

[@ericcoopersomatics]

That's a good question. When I saw your comment I went back to a movement I hadn't edited yet. I just uploaded it.
I think you can get the idea of what it takes to settle down the legs with this one, it's called Straight Like Spaghetti: ruclips.net/video/rJgy3LtAffY/видео.html
You may find there is some next-day-soreness. That washes away after a day or so.
I may re-record it. When you tighten the legs, look for where the tension is hard to sense. Tighten those quiet places a little bit more. Please let me know if you find it helpful.

[@shannonsallows7614]

@@ericcoopersomatics Thanks, this one is new and I will try it tonight.

[@ericcoopersomatics]

More recently, there is this video for the thighs:
ruclips.net/video/CBhHxl2UVN0/видео.html
But it is important to settle the system down with a big picture view. Relax your back with The Wishbone or The Amplified Angel Wing, or The Back Twist. All of those options are in this playlist: ruclips.net/p/PLFLw4vgr7ayhkhpPSVz3Qu5UiRGZiKUGv