I'm glad you found this, too. You can make a beautiful change in transforming your tension and constriction into freedom and ease. One way to do it is to follow some of the playlists. Generally, start at the top of the lists. This is a good movement to free yourself from a line that is stuck in most people. Here is the page with *all the playlists* : www.youtube.com/@ericcoopersomatics/playlists *The Begin Here Playlist* will take you into the most important lines to address: ruclips.net/p/PLFLw4vgr7ayiIX9O0hRsMwyxhaK4LTXXF Please let me know if you have any questions in your exploration. Thank you for your comment.
*Thank you. I was doing the same movement in my own practic* e at about the time you were practicing. Yes, this is such and important movement because it gets that big brushstroke line of the front diagonals which is so powerful in the human body. This is surely a movement to take to the desert island with you. I'm so glad it is helping you feel better. It may be good to give some attention to the back diagonals with these: Gentle: *Oh, The Places Your Back Pocket Can Go* : A very gentle movement to relax a tight, sore back. Prone (tummy on floor) position ruclips.net/video/SeblFHleWlY/видео.html *Side Lying Version: Oh, The Places Your Back Pocket Can Go* ruclips.net/video/RhNxOEUJKuM/видео.html More powerful: The Wishbone | Pandiculation for a deep RELAX of your BACK - This is the one I usually do before bed Release tension in your low-back, Relax the long diagonals of the back, decompress the spine. ruclips.net/video/D8AJ3J9qWc8/видео.html *Yawn Your Wings Practice* : Practice sequence for back rib breathing. 5m:10s ruclips.net/video/RadxAYe6Nq8/видео.html Most powerful: *The Amplified Angel Wing* . 4m:56s ruclips.net/video/BOCIvUYDJ4w/видео.html
You are on the path. Learn to see where there is the confusion about specific places and spaces of the torso as breathing space. Control supersedes sensing. Make the movements completely under you voluntary control. I encourage you to explore some of my multi-movement sequences. Here are all of them: Practice Sequences, Combinations of Movements Playlist ruclips.net/p/PLFLw4vgr7ayi5g-EIHvIoxssLuuYpKptY Think front, back, sides (in any order). Experiment with it. consider twisting. Twisting can be the shortcut, and it can also be culminating achievement. Practicing often is the key to changing the habit. There will always be the tendecy for the nervous system to ramp up contraction in these hidden tensions. Keep reminding it how to be calm and at ease. Please let me know if you have questions or aha momenets. -Eric
Yes, thank you, Sandy. I'm glad you tried this one. The hips and the sacrum, they interlink with the big long twisting lines through the body. If the long lines give some slack, we can feel so much free in those localized places. I'm glad you're practicing. Take care of yourself. It's very nice to hear your comment. Thank you. Since we share a teacher, I'll also tell you that rotational contraction high up in the torso spirals down and affects the sacrum. If you look at the big picture and teach the brain out of it, these localized problems aren't boiling over quite the same way.
Thank you, Richard. Your perspective on Somatics makes that especially encouraging. I wish I had met Thomas Hanna. I have listened to his words very carefully, sometimes again and again and again. His work was incomplete. In a way, one of my goals is to make Somatics more somatic. What is the experience of embodiment? What is that oddness of encountering SMA? It seems existential in that, in my observation, it's like I don't exist at the moment, it's nothingness. There are refinements and frontiers that need exploration. So much needs to be shared with the world. It's obvious the world is trapped in its stress, trapped in its habits and adaptations. I'd love have a chance to talk with you, at some point.
I thought you were the Richard Eschelman who was in Thomas Hanna's original course for practitioners.😂 He's a friend of mine on FB and I thought you were him.
Doing this is good , but, as i have not found a set of moves down my under arm and armpit from the chest neck, ribs ,, left side is Eric would say boiling over, breathing, torso..... my Arm movements ?
I am not exactly sure what you are looking for, but I encourge you to adapt this movement to be what you need. Focus it on those places. De-emphasize the lower half and make it a very upper half focus. Also, this one may be adaptable? *The Diagonal Lay Over | Relaxed Open Front | Twisting Side Bend Variation* 10m:24s On RUclips : ruclips.net/user/shortswdwvFx-2N6Q
What an interesting movement, thank you for sharing! Besides Thomas Hanna and yourself, are there other somatic teachers/researchers with an innovative approach that you find interesting?
I don't watch anyone else's videos. I don't because it clouds my ideas. I have a unique combination of training and obsession. I go with that. Each of us has our own Somatic truth, our own experience. My proving ground is as valid as anyone else's. Laura Gates was one of my early teachers. She had one movement video that inspired me early on. It's on RUclips at : ruclips.net/video/H5Y3NrRu72o/видео.html For a long time, I worked toward that type of clear video communication. She is a great teacher. I haven't seen his videos in a long time, but Lawrence Gold, who was in Hanna's original practitioner course, is surely a top innovator. He showed me that innovation was possible, that it was possible to go beyond the fundamentalist view of what Somatics can be. Some of his directions don't interest me. He does have some innovative, even brilliant, approaches to movement.
powerful,this one is very good for the current condition ,I am in. The i don't want to be seen,it's not safe here so I must contract,play small. impressive............ In some positions there is not alot of back on floor??? Is that okay???/ it does feel good & I'm playing off the tension,in the way I have access to for now................Blessings on your journey!!! Love Mikayla............ I 've a sense of as you say Eric,,inner light,wholeness/wholing...........i feel much more awake,alive,free and yes intelligent
We want to honor and love that part that want's to not be seen, to be small, to hide away. We want to be gentle and loving in how we show it there can be a safe way to be. Give the system a winnable lesson it can accept. There are more specialized movement to help you free the localized stucknesses that keep your back off the floor. Sometimes there are structural limitations, but much of it is functional. As you do this one, look for the parts of the line that do not open. It's hard to see. Look carefully. Go slower to see it. When you see it. Reverse back into the contraction. Teach that place. There are other movements and strategies for helping the really stuck places to be part of the whole. Please let me know when you'd like to do another session. I will look forward to it. Yes, the wholing. That's right. That's your word and that a beautiful word. That's what the journey it. Can you, we, move through all of it? Easier breathing, the dynamic space of breathing brings with it more aliveness and, dare I say, better breathing brings better thinking, too. Blessings on your journey.
Subscribed! I am SO grateful I've found these somatic exercise, I guess, right on time...
I'm glad you found this, too. You can make a beautiful change in transforming your tension and constriction into freedom and ease. One way to do it is to follow some of the playlists. Generally, start at the top of the lists.
This is a good movement to free yourself from a line that is stuck in most people.
Here is the page with *all the playlists* : www.youtube.com/@ericcoopersomatics/playlists
*The Begin Here Playlist* will take you into the most important lines to address: ruclips.net/p/PLFLw4vgr7ayiIX9O0hRsMwyxhaK4LTXXF
Please let me know if you have any questions in your exploration.
Thank you for your comment.
Thanks Eric for all the effort you put out to help us feel freer in our body (and mind). Great movement!!!
*Thank you. I was doing the same movement in my own practic* e at about the time you were practicing. Yes, this is such and important movement because it gets that big brushstroke line of the front diagonals which is so powerful in the human body. This is surely a movement to take to the desert island with you. I'm so glad it is helping you feel better.
It may be good to give some attention to the back diagonals with these:
Gentle:
*Oh, The Places Your Back Pocket Can Go* : A very gentle movement to relax a tight, sore back.
Prone (tummy on floor) position ruclips.net/video/SeblFHleWlY/видео.html
*Side Lying Version: Oh, The Places Your Back Pocket Can Go* ruclips.net/video/RhNxOEUJKuM/видео.html
More powerful:
The Wishbone | Pandiculation for a deep RELAX of your BACK - This is the one I usually do before bed
Release tension in your low-back, Relax the long diagonals of the back, decompress the spine.
ruclips.net/video/D8AJ3J9qWc8/видео.html
*Yawn Your Wings Practice* : Practice sequence for back rib breathing. 5m:10s
ruclips.net/video/RadxAYe6Nq8/видео.html
Most powerful:
*The Amplified Angel Wing* . 4m:56s
ruclips.net/video/BOCIvUYDJ4w/видео.html
Thank you great start to my day. I have a ways to go but I’m on my way!
You are on the path.
Learn to see where there is the confusion about specific places and spaces of the torso as breathing space. Control supersedes sensing. Make the movements completely under you voluntary control.
I encourage you to explore some of my multi-movement sequences.
Here are all of them:
Practice Sequences, Combinations of Movements Playlist ruclips.net/p/PLFLw4vgr7ayi5g-EIHvIoxssLuuYpKptY
Think front, back, sides (in any order). Experiment with it.
consider twisting. Twisting can be the shortcut, and it can also be culminating achievement.
Practicing often is the key to changing the habit. There will always be the tendecy for the nervous system to ramp up contraction in these hidden tensions. Keep reminding it how to be calm and at ease.
Please let me know if you have questions or aha momenets.
-Eric
Thank you Eric
Sunrise Sunset (for me) is a great practice for raising awareness to and releasing the sacrum and hip joints. 😊
Yes, thank you, Sandy. I'm glad you tried this one. The hips and the sacrum, they interlink with the big long twisting lines through the body. If the long lines give some slack, we can feel so much free in those localized places. I'm glad you're practicing. Take care of yourself. It's very nice to hear your comment. Thank you.
Since we share a teacher, I'll also tell you that rotational contraction high up in the torso spirals down and affects the sacrum. If you look at the big picture and teach the brain out of it, these localized problems aren't boiling over quite the same way.
Love your technique/teachings
Thank you, Richard. Your perspective on Somatics makes that especially encouraging.
I wish I had met Thomas Hanna. I have listened to his words very carefully, sometimes again and again and again. His work was incomplete. In a way, one of my goals is to make Somatics more somatic. What is the experience of embodiment? What is that oddness of encountering SMA? It seems existential in that, in my observation, it's like I don't exist at the moment, it's nothingness. There are refinements and frontiers that need exploration. So much needs to be shared with the world. It's obvious the world is trapped in its stress, trapped in its habits and adaptations.
I'd love have a chance to talk with you, at some point.
@@ericcoopersomatics I never met Thomas Hanna either and wish I had as well
I thought you were the Richard Eschelman who was in Thomas Hanna's original course for practitioners.😂
He's a friend of mine on FB and I thought you were him.
I thought you were Wave One.
I don’t believe there was a Richard Eshelman in the original class.
Doing this is good , but, as i have not found a set of moves down my under arm and armpit from the chest neck, ribs ,, left side is Eric would say boiling over, breathing, torso..... my Arm movements ?
I am not exactly sure what you are looking for, but I encourge you to adapt this movement to be what you need. Focus it on those places. De-emphasize the lower half and make it a very upper half focus.
Also, this one may be adaptable?
*The Diagonal Lay Over | Relaxed Open Front | Twisting Side Bend Variation* 10m:24s
On RUclips : ruclips.net/user/shortswdwvFx-2N6Q
What an interesting movement, thank you for sharing!
Besides Thomas Hanna and yourself, are there other somatic teachers/researchers with an innovative approach that you find interesting?
I don't watch anyone else's videos. I don't because it clouds my ideas. I have a unique combination of training and obsession. I go with that. Each of us has our own Somatic truth, our own experience. My proving ground is as valid as anyone else's.
Laura Gates was one of my early teachers. She had one movement video that inspired me early on. It's on RUclips at : ruclips.net/video/H5Y3NrRu72o/видео.html For a long time, I worked toward that type of clear video communication. She is a great teacher.
I haven't seen his videos in a long time, but Lawrence Gold, who was in Hanna's original practitioner course, is surely a top innovator. He showed me that innovation was possible, that it was possible to go beyond the fundamentalist view of what Somatics can be. Some of his directions don't interest me. He does have some innovative, even brilliant, approaches to movement.
@@ericcoopersomatics Thank you, Eric, for your interesting answer! I've taken a look at both Lawrence Gold's and Laura Gate's websites and videos.
powerful,this one is very good for the current condition ,I am in. The i don't want to be seen,it's not safe here so I must contract,play small. impressive............ In some positions there is not alot of back on floor??? Is that okay???/ it does feel good & I'm playing off the tension,in the way I have access to for now................Blessings on your journey!!! Love Mikayla............ I 've a sense of as you say Eric,,inner light,wholeness/wholing...........i feel much more awake,alive,free and yes intelligent
We want to honor and love that part that want's to not be seen, to be small, to hide away. We want to be gentle and loving in how we show it there can be a safe way to be.
Give the system a winnable lesson it can accept. There are more specialized movement to help you free the localized stucknesses that keep your back off the floor. Sometimes there are structural limitations, but much of it is functional.
As you do this one, look for the parts of the line that do not open. It's hard to see. Look carefully. Go slower to see it. When you see it. Reverse back into the contraction. Teach that place.
There are other movements and strategies for helping the really stuck places to be part of the whole. Please let me know when you'd like to do another session. I will look forward to it.
Yes, the wholing. That's right. That's your word and that a beautiful word.
That's what the journey it. Can you, we, move through all of it?
Easier breathing, the dynamic space of breathing brings with it more aliveness and, dare I say, better breathing brings better thinking, too.
Blessings on your journey.
PS. try the strategy of The Rocking Chair with this one.