Chin tucks are one of the most common exercises that people are prescribed to deal with their postural problems, namely forward head posture. In this video, we examine the reasoning behind chin tucks, and see if this kind of exercise makes sense. I offer lessons in the Initial Alexander Technique, which are conducted one-on-one with a teacher over Zoom. They are designed to help you gain conscious control over how you move your body. Most people have no idea what they’re doing with their body, and as they misuse their body, they end up with discomfort, pain, and other issues that they may not even realize are caused by what they’re doing to themselves. But how do you figure out what you’re doing wrong? And how do you change what you're doing and overcome lifelong habits? In an Initial Alexander Technique lesson, you will record yourself through Zoom, so you will be able to see and understand what you are doing when you stand, sit, walk, and perform other simple gestures. With the assistance of your teacher, you will come to understand how you are misusing the mechanisms of your body, and you will gain the ability to choose to use yourself in a more sensible way. You can learn how to use your body without pain. You can break free from long held habits. All you need is a system that works. For more information or to book a lesson, please visit my website: mechanicsofpoise.com/ You can contact me at: DelsarteAlexanderMasoeroYou@protonmail.com "This new piece of evidence suggested that the functioning of the organs of speech was influenced by my manner of using the whole torso, and that the pulling of the head back and down was not, as I had presumed, merely a misuse of the specific parts concerned, but one that was inseparably bound up with a misuse of other mechanisms which involved the act of shortening the stature. If this were so, it would clearly be useless to expect such improvement as I needed from merely preventing the wrong use of the head and neck. I realized that I must also prevent those other associated wrong uses which brought about the shortening of the stature." F.M. Alexander
Thank you! I spent several years researching before I came across Masoero’s work basically by luck. In my view, he is on the cutting edge of this kind of work. So yes, unfortunately these ideas are not yet well known.
your videos are good but bit esoteric cud u tell what shud one do who wished to achieve forward facial growth naturally(I have recessed chin too ) I saw chin tucks treat recessed chin and help in good chin projection
In my view, a recessed chin does not happen in isolation. It’s not as if the chin itself is the problem. If your general posture is causing retraction of the upper end of the ribcage, the shoulders, and the head, that can frequently lead to the chin coming back as well. Explaining how to correct your posture generally is not something that can be done in a few paragraphs or even a few videos, that’s why I have an entire channel full of videos designed to help people build a framework for taking control of how they use their body. I have playlists on my channel of a few series I put out (on the torso, legs, arms, head/neck) that will help you start to make sense of what I’m talking about. I strive to provide practical and straightforward explanations and procedures. So while occasionally some of these broader videos can be a little esoteric as you say, the system I’m presenting is very much intelligible and practical.
you say “lift the back of the head up”, I learned that the lower neck can be extended and can be in flexion too. same with the upper neck, can be extended and flexed, so you recommend a upper neck in flexion so the back of the head can be up while the lower neck is in flexion too? or you recommend a neutral upper and lower neck position??
The system I teach on this channel is conscious guidance and control. It’s hard to have conscious control when you’re unconscious and asleep. Ultimately you have very little control over what you do while you sleep, you will end up in whatever is habitual for you. The best thing you can do is change your habits while you’re awake and conscious. As you change your habits during the day for the better, that will change the habits that you fall into when you sleep. But the general ideas around standing posture apply to a sleeping position. If you’re sleeping on your back, you would want to stack something under your upper torso and head so that your head is not back relative to your sternum. Back in this context would be down, since you’re on you’re back. Whether that’s realistic to do or sustainable (if you toss in your sleep, you can end up somewhere totally different from where you started) is another question. That’s why I would say you want to worry more about what you’re doing while awake.
I have a few videos on the tongue in my series on the neck and head. To me, the tongue, like most parts of the body, is best understood through its function. The tongue goes against the roof of the mouth, filling the mouth, when you are swallowing. Lifting the tongue in this manner shortens the pharynx and assists in closing the airway: both of which are necessary for swallowing. When breathing, we want an open airway and a long pharynx. The tongue should be kept low, should not be retracted, and should be generally flat with the edges elevated higher than the middle. I’m not a subscriber to the idea that the tongue is the driver of craniofacial development. The tongue has very important uses in breathing/speaking and swallowing, and it’s certainly involved in general neck and head posture, but I would say it’s more instrumental in the condition of the throat and the breathing system. The idea that the tongue holds the head up, which has gained some popularity recently, is unfounded in my view. The fascia, the torso, and the body generally hold the head up.
The system I teach on this channel is about making conscious movements to change the orientation and relative position of the bones. Thumb pulling is inherently different in the sense that it’s not about changing your habits, it’s about exerting a force for a period of time to manually push the bones. I don’t know enough about it to say much, but I think without changing your underlying habits, lasting change is unlikely.
hi! when you say that the back of the head must be lifting so that the neck expands, i dont understand how to lift the back of the head without tucking the chin in, because if the back part goes up, the front part is supposed to go down, tucking the chin just like chin tucks
You may be thinking of simply rotating the head around the atlanto-occiptal joint - which would mean the front has to go down to lift the back. That’s not the adjustment people need. When the head has been kept back and down, the entire neck is bent back on itself - it’s compressed and shortened. So it’s possible to unbend the neck and move the entire head forward and up, lifting both the chin and the back of the head. You can try putting the back of one hand underneath your chin. Push up on the entire chin (back and front) as you lift the back of the head. Optimally this is coordinated with a movement of the ribcage - lifting up away from the pelvis, back with the lower ribs, forward with the upper sternum. This will lift the entire head in space, but change is occurring in the neck and torso as well.
You said to fix my posture i need to understand my habits and fix them but i don't get what habits i am doing wrong i have a lot of body posture problems
I would say there’s basically two routes to go here. You can have a teacher help you understand your habits, or you need to figure them out yourself. If you’re not interested in getting lessons for whatever reason, then what are you doing to figure out your habitual problems? Have you taken video of yourself? Have you taken pictures of yourself at a 90 degree angle? Until you can see yourself and see what you’re doing, you will have a hard time understanding what you’re doing. In the lessons I give, they are done through Zoom so that the student can record the video of the lesson and see what they’re doing. The basic starting place is the torso. Is your sternum vertically straight, or is it tilted back at the top? When you’re standing, is your iliac (at the front of the pelvis) forward or back relative to your upper sternum? What about relative to your instep (the front of the ankle)? To answer these questions, you need to be able to see yourself. Is that part clear? I’ve tried to emphasize the important of visual feedback a lot on this channel. Are you using visual feedback? If not, that is the place to start.
Chin tucks are one of the most common exercises that people are prescribed to deal with their postural problems, namely forward head posture. In this video, we examine the reasoning behind chin tucks, and see if this kind of exercise makes sense.
I offer lessons in the Initial Alexander Technique, which are conducted one-on-one with a teacher over Zoom. They are designed to help you gain conscious control over how you move your body. Most people have no idea what they’re doing with their body, and as they misuse their body, they end up with discomfort, pain, and other issues that they may not even realize are caused by what they’re doing to themselves. But how do you figure out what you’re doing wrong? And how do you change what you're doing and overcome lifelong habits?
In an Initial Alexander Technique lesson, you will record yourself through Zoom, so you will be able to see and understand what you are doing when you stand, sit, walk, and perform other simple gestures. With the assistance of your teacher, you will come to understand how you are misusing the mechanisms of your body, and you will gain the ability to choose to use yourself in a more sensible way. You can learn how to use your body without pain. You can break free from long held habits. All you need is a system that works.
For more information or to book a lesson, please visit my website: mechanicsofpoise.com/
You can contact me at: DelsarteAlexanderMasoeroYou@protonmail.com
"This new piece of evidence suggested that the functioning of the organs of speech was influenced by my manner of using the whole torso, and that the pulling of the head back and down was not, as I had presumed, merely a misuse of the specific parts concerned, but one that was inseparably bound up with a misuse of other mechanisms which involved the act of shortening the stature. If this were so, it would clearly be useless to expect such improvement as I needed from merely preventing the wrong use of the head and neck. I realized that I must also prevent those other associated wrong uses which brought about the shortening of the stature."
F.M. Alexander
I'm glad I started Alexander technique. I saw a PT as well. One exercise is prone elbows on floor chin tucks, wonder if those are more efficient?
How this channel is not famous? I really researched very much but didn't find this type of information
Thank you! I spent several years researching before I came across Masoero’s work basically by luck. In my view, he is on the cutting edge of this kind of work. So yes, unfortunately these ideas are not yet well known.
your videos are good but bit esoteric cud u tell what shud one do who wished to achieve forward facial growth naturally(I have recessed chin too ) I saw chin tucks treat recessed chin and help in good chin projection
In my view, a recessed chin does not happen in isolation. It’s not as if the chin itself is the problem. If your general posture is causing retraction of the upper end of the ribcage, the shoulders, and the head, that can frequently lead to the chin coming back as well. Explaining how to correct your posture generally is not something that can be done in a few paragraphs or even a few videos, that’s why I have an entire channel full of videos designed to help people build a framework for taking control of how they use their body.
I have playlists on my channel of a few series I put out (on the torso, legs, arms, head/neck) that will help you start to make sense of what I’m talking about. I strive to provide practical and straightforward explanations and procedures. So while occasionally some of these broader videos can be a little esoteric as you say, the system I’m presenting is very much intelligible and practical.
you say “lift the back of the head up”, I learned that the lower neck can be extended and can be in flexion too. same with the upper neck, can be extended and flexed, so you recommend a upper neck in flexion so the back of the head can be up while the lower neck is in flexion too?
or you recommend a neutral upper and lower neck position??
can you pls make videos about sleep posture. how to place pillow and what alexander fm taught about sleep posture.
The system I teach on this channel is conscious guidance and control. It’s hard to have conscious control when you’re unconscious and asleep. Ultimately you have very little control over what you do while you sleep, you will end up in whatever is habitual for you. The best thing you can do is change your habits while you’re awake and conscious. As you change your habits during the day for the better, that will change the habits that you fall into when you sleep.
But the general ideas around standing posture apply to a sleeping position. If you’re sleeping on your back, you would want to stack something under your upper torso and head so that your head is not back relative to your sternum. Back in this context would be down, since you’re on you’re back. Whether that’s realistic to do or sustainable (if you toss in your sleep, you can end up somewhere totally different from where you started) is another question. That’s why I would say you want to worry more about what you’re doing while awake.
Impressive, expecting some info related to tongue and how its posture as a muscle effects the craniofacial development or its relation to neck
I have a few videos on the tongue in my series on the neck and head. To me, the tongue, like most parts of the body, is best understood through its function. The tongue goes against the roof of the mouth, filling the mouth, when you are swallowing. Lifting the tongue in this manner shortens the pharynx and assists in closing the airway: both of which are necessary for swallowing. When breathing, we want an open airway and a long pharynx. The tongue should be kept low, should not be retracted, and should be generally flat with the edges elevated higher than the middle.
I’m not a subscriber to the idea that the tongue is the driver of craniofacial development. The tongue has very important uses in breathing/speaking and swallowing, and it’s certainly involved in general neck and head posture, but I would say it’s more instrumental in the condition of the throat and the breathing system. The idea that the tongue holds the head up, which has gained some popularity recently, is unfounded in my view. The fascia, the torso, and the body generally hold the head up.
@@delsartealexandermasoeroyo9147 thnx for replying, I'll check out your previous videos
please make post for thumbpulling guide technique for maxilla please i huge request you
The system I teach on this channel is about making conscious movements to change the orientation and relative position of the bones. Thumb pulling is inherently different in the sense that it’s not about changing your habits, it’s about exerting a force for a period of time to manually push the bones. I don’t know enough about it to say much, but I think without changing your underlying habits, lasting change is unlikely.
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hi! when you say that the back of the head must be lifting so that the neck expands, i dont understand how to lift the back of the head without tucking the chin in, because if the back part goes up, the front part is supposed to go down, tucking the chin just like chin tucks
You may be thinking of simply rotating the head around the atlanto-occiptal joint - which would mean the front has to go down to lift the back. That’s not the adjustment people need. When the head has been kept back and down, the entire neck is bent back on itself - it’s compressed and shortened. So it’s possible to unbend the neck and move the entire head forward and up, lifting both the chin and the back of the head.
You can try putting the back of one hand underneath your chin. Push up on the entire chin (back and front) as you lift the back of the head. Optimally this is coordinated with a movement of the ribcage - lifting up away from the pelvis, back with the lower ribs, forward with the upper sternum. This will lift the entire head in space, but change is occurring in the neck and torso as well.
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What would be a better alternative to chin tucks
You said to fix my posture i need to understand my habits and fix them but i don't get what habits i am doing wrong i have a lot of body posture problems
I would say there’s basically two routes to go here. You can have a teacher help you understand your habits, or you need to figure them out yourself. If you’re not interested in getting lessons for whatever reason, then what are you doing to figure out your habitual problems?
Have you taken video of yourself? Have you taken pictures of yourself at a 90 degree angle? Until you can see yourself and see what you’re doing, you will have a hard time understanding what you’re doing. In the lessons I give, they are done through Zoom so that the student can record the video of the lesson and see what they’re doing.
The basic starting place is the torso. Is your sternum vertically straight, or is it tilted back at the top? When you’re standing, is your iliac (at the front of the pelvis) forward or back relative to your upper sternum? What about relative to your instep (the front of the ankle)? To answer these questions, you need to be able to see yourself. Is that part clear? I’ve tried to emphasize the important of visual feedback a lot on this channel. Are you using visual feedback? If not, that is the place to start.
so in other words chin tucks are bad?
And we need to raising our neck up and forward during sitting down at a computer?
Are chin tucks bad?