Wow. This is great! I'm older (71) and was worried I couldn't do this. I got down on the floor (overcoming my resistance) and found it pleasurable and fun. In a week of doing moderate stretching, I am feeling so much better! Thanks!
Getting down to the floor and getting back up from the floor in itself is a great mobility exercise that people gradually stop doing as they get older and become confined to chairs and couches, which will take their mobility away and keep them stuck in rigid patterns. Never too old to change! I worked with a 91 old lady (caucasian) who had a total knee replacement and total hip replacement 3 months apart, and was motivated to get back to her yoga! very inspiring, right? I would never judge people's abilities and potential based on their age and conditions.
Mr. Iwamoto.. I am 65 years old and have osteoarthritis in hip and knee joints .. I stopped jogging about 6 years ago bc of this and started yoga instead .. Recently I added Pilates and now your routines, to increase my range of movement.. I hope they help me .. Thank you
Thank you so much for posting this 🙏! I'm 56 and have started roller skating again 🛼😜 and have been struggling with sore and tight hip flexors during and after a skate session. First time doing this and I feel immediate relief and release and I can't wait to continue to do this every morning to help with my flexibility and hopefully improve my skating style as well!
I just tried this. It totally works and increased circulation through my legs. I struggle with anterior pelvic tilt and this was very interesting! I’m about to watch all the videos.
I felt a significant reduction in the arch of my back laying down after doing the exercises. I will begin to add this to my daily routine and I signed up for the free literature on low back pain. Thank you!
Thank you so much for this! I fell upon this video by chance, and am so grateful for your help, which has had an immense and immediately releasing effect (the very first time I did it today). I have had moderate residual and deep pain in my lower-to-mid back (off slightly to the left) - the result of a back injury that has hampered sitting, walking, standing, sleeping, and yoga for the last four weeks. After doing this really well explained and demonstrated exercise, I am stunned and so deeply grateful that the pain and tightness has literally disappeared. It’s taken four weeks to stumble on this amazing curl-and-and-engage exercise, which I’ll be doing daily - first thing after (now) jumping out of bed, and definitely as Taro has suggested, before any exercise. Thank you again.
Actually think this helped with my stretching. I’ve been having pain in the hip for over a year and going to physio twice a week for months now. He said to keep stretching it but after watching this video my stretching was a deeper. Thank you!! 🙏
i’m like. 30 and i’ve had low back pain for about a year. i had a back spasm that was so scary etc and this video. one time only. just hugely improved my back pain. what a cool guy!!!!
I suffer from multiple Sclerosis (MS) and my hip flexors are affected really bad. This exercise is definitely a bit of me. I'm going to include this in my routines 💪
Wow! Thank you very much! I work out regularly and am in pretty good shape. I recently learned to crochet and have become addicted to it. It is a wonderful hobby but it wreaks havoc on my sciatic nerve, because of sitting so long. I followed along with your video. The arch in my back was much less after the exercise you taught! Also, I could feel a different stretch in the hip flexors, which I don't usually get. I love it! Thank you again! I'm going to subscribe!
I am so surprised. And frankly shocked. I have had pain in my low back/upper pelvis for close to 20 years. And I never quite felt, no matter what exercices I did, that I got even close to better that area. I can feel that this helps! 😮 This is..... wow ..... Thank you so much for putting your content on RUclips for free for us to see. ❤️
I definitely noticed a difference in my back arch afterwards. I'm hoping this will help with my hip pain issues; I have minor arthritis but more pain than the arthritis would indicate. I have very tight hip muscles in the crease of my leg/hip area which is definitely a contributing factor.
Excited to find this! I tried it along with your video and found it totally doable. I’m going to add this to my daily routine of stretches and strengthening exercises. Thank you so much for sharing this technique with us. You present it very nicely and simply-with a good vibe, too. 🙏❤️
I like the video, a lot. Most individuals do not know what you know: internal awareness. Americans, sadly to report, have no clue of how to begin to roll their pelvis in a posterior tilt at the beginning of your video. This is the first video on your channel I have viewed. Therefore, you may already have discussed this topic of "unawareness" of what your body is doing, volitionally. Contract/relax is a "good" idea, however, now, because so many individuals have hypertonic muscles, inhibit = manual therapies and movement retraining. On another note, even with cushions or pillows to reduce the amount of hip flexion/external rotation, abduction, cannot be accomplished. Yet, these individuals view your channel. Creating a split-screen with you demonstrating, the second screen with you working with an individual that is very comprised, and a third screen for subscribing to your channel to view practitioners around the world that individuals may be able to connect with would assist so many people, faster. Thank you for your channel!!
I was hurt by rolling heavy hay and pulling big weeds for many years-in just 5 times of doing this my back came closer to floor- I will be watching you regularly-thank you -I have tipped pelvis and narrow tight hips -this will help-just little movements-exercises ruin me -i am older
I have never been able to sit cross-legged on the floor comfortably. You identified a muscle I didn’t even know I had. This simple psoas exercise will help me address this and my range of motion.
There might be more than one reason why you have a problem sitting cross legs or Indian style! I type so as could do it but also hip adductors bad SI joint. I have an expert on this because I got hit by a semi when I was 17 and I had to figure out what the hell was wrong cuz the doctors couldn't. I invented a new way to treat spondylolises. I don't think you'll go wrong by adding this in your routine no matter what without doing it an examination I've never seen it really hurt anybody. Everybody I've tested has abnormally tight hip flexors unless they're active and very young. Most people have a lower back muscle tightening up along with a hip flexor because they're lower back or so is out. So you want to find out the cause first. Good luck to you
Worth a try my left psoas is shorter My psoas is so tight that it gives me mid back pain I tryed it but I need a big cushion I still have a big gap between my lower back and floor But it relieved my middle back pain and stiff neck
I really appreciate these videos as they have really made a difference in my ongoing battle with lower body pain. Suggestion please: Move your pose so that we can see the movement from different angles. I think seeing your back from a side view would have been helpful to see whether its flexed or straight. Same with an exercise in another video where you are standing on a split and driving your foot down - is your back leg straight or bent? Seeing it from different angles would really help! Thank you again!
Thanks, this is a missing link exercise for me. I am 72 and a keen dancer and the exercise is helping me improve my leg movement and my maintenance of a neutral pelvis position.
Thanks. You make the exercise so simple and effective. I am struggling with my hip flexors and tight hamstrings and it is challenging to do do stretches.
Will give this a try. I am a runner with perpetually tight psoas/ hip flexors. Sitting criss-cross is uncomfortable without a block during my yoga practice. Thank you that I discovered this.
maybe your psoas get tight because of weakness. When you run, you mostly creating hip extension working ur hamstring and glutes and psoas is actually at the lenghten position all the time. Psoas creating hip flexion above 90 degree, so u basically not using this muscle unless u strenghtening it on purpose. Neither sitting cause psoas tightness, it's myth.
Love love love again‼️ I can tend to have a "crunch" or "click" around my groin area and doing the checks it was there...then, literally doing this with you, gone. 🙏 I have been playing with Lizard and baby crawl as well...loving your videos. Thank you and will be adding this to my mornings. 🎈🌞 gratitude 🙏
Holly molly! This really works. Having tight hips or weak hip muscles, created the biggest arch , and has caused lower back for me since I was a teenager. If this improved the space while laying flat after 1 time, imagine after doing it regularly. I assume it will help with abdominal strength too.
Ditto. Just started. These tiny adjustments were tough. First, it was painful to just Lay flat even tho not much space between my back and the floor. Uneven tho. But then yoga practice helped me to breath thru it. Oh my goodness. Not easy. I had to use my core which is still strong, not as it was when I was a young dancer but not slack entirely. The immediate relief and difference. Now I have more hope of avoiding surgery and keeping my mobility. My concern rounding the back. I have sciatica so that sitting scissor exercise - caution if your piriformis is out of whack.
I have MS. Impossible. Spasms and inability to get down to the floor or back up if I end up on the floor. The warm therapy pool is the only place I can relieve my psoas muscles.
no need to get down to the floor. you can modify this and make it much easier for your body by performing this similar movement while sitting on a chair.
Thank you, so much! I tested my mobility as you suggested and had strained movement. I did the release exercise, after the first time, it released it. When I did the mobility test again I was able to move much easier.
Consider making the videos more brief, concept could be explained in less time. You can make the first rep in regular time and then fast forward through the remaining ones..
Thank you for your video. Though, I have trouble understanding why the exercise would reduce the arch in your lower back. I thought engaging the Psoas muscles causes a contraction, making them shorter, which makes your pelvis tilt more forward and therefore causing more space between lower back and floor. Please, help me understand. Thank you.
Habitual tension or contraction in hip flexors is often maintained until its effort is brought to the nervous systems attention. Doing this intentional contraction of hip flexors followed by active lengthening results in inhibition or reduction of hip flexor contraction. Thus reduced anterior pelvic tilt and lumbar extension.
Thank you so much. I added your follow along to my library so I can build my routine. I am over sixty and just had a total knee replacement six weeks ago. So now I am able to get a routine going.
Thanks for the video. I’ve definitely started to realize that my own tightness stems more from muscle weakness and poor activation patterns than anything else. This seems like a good exercise to address just that.
Thanks so much! I’ll do these before my exercises for seniors. You’re very clear in explaining what to do. I appreciate you for sharing this movement/exercise.
i just did a boxing class for the first time a couple of days ago and my back and legs havd been sooo sore and this really helped!! felt super relaxing to do right before bad and i def noticed a difference in soreness level + range of movement! thank you so much!
Wow that was crazy, i had a little curve when lying on the floor but I thought that was normal. After I did this my lower back was basically flat to the floor. thank you!
So often these videos lure you in promising something which seems unlikely. So often the feeling is a bit of a let down after trying what's suggested. I tried this, and the space under right side was much higher before, but now has been restored to the same gap as the left side, after just those 4 reps you suggest. I'm definitely interested in this now. I knew about Feldenkrais from a friend called Wilfried van Dorp who practices, but I never got to have a session with him. I know Feldenkrais must be a small world, maybe you know Wilfried?
Thank you, Taro! I'm still recovering from right hip replacement last March, and just found that this gave my hip more space to move, and that it moved more smoothly and naturally. I appreciate your time and effort!
Thank you, sir. I had been doing similar forms of these movements, but your instruction is very helpful-- not to mention your insight. I have subscribe and will share your channel with others. Peace, my friend.
I'm amazed by the simplicity of your videos because of the impact they have! This will be the first thing I do before stretching every night. Thank you!
I really appreciate your channel ans your approach... thank you! And, I would love to see a way to release the psoas and the hip flexors that maybe wasn't so challenging on the core...I mean if you don't have a really strong and stable core yet... or, if you had a hernia or separation in abdominals from child birthing etc... this is a challenging movement.... you make it look easy because you have a really strong core and you're really integrated in your movement... thats my opinion from my experience from trying this 🙏🙂
Thank you!! You can modify this exercise, and do in on a low stool or chair, and gradually progress to a lower surface. There's always a way to make it easier or more challenging, so we just have to start where we're at:)
@@TaroIwamoto Thank you, I appreciate that. Will try this on a stool or chair. Would love to see a demo if that fits into your schedule and if it would be of value to others, as well 🙏🙂
Thank you so much for this. I am 37 and quite active. I developed hip pain a few years ago and only recently found out I have combined FAI and torn labrum on each side. I have also developed IT band syndrome and bad SI joint pain. PT gave me psoas stretch to do, but I haven’t gotten much relief with similar stretches in the past. I found this video and now do this before my PT assigned psoas stretch and I have found significant reduction in my SI pain and a bit more hip mobility afterward. The range of motion in my hips is pretty limited, but anything helps. And I’ll also take any reduction in chronic pain I can get. Thank you so much!!
In my next video (to be released on 2/23 Wed 6:00am PST), I will share 3 effective hip flexor stretches, which will be a nice follow up video after this one. Those 3 stretches are probably the ones you're already doing, but you might find my cueing for those stretches helpful. Quality over quantity always. How you move makes a difference!
Well this is my fifth video and each time I have been satisfied at the change. I subbed after the first video. 👍🏾 I want to add that my first reaction to the checking space under my back was scepticism ...I was thinking what of people who have naturally big bums/bottoms/posteriors... Cuz I always have a pronounced arch that I usually push my hand under to sleep more comfortably. But after going through the exercise just the once, the space was definitely reduced ...I could not get my whole hand under the space. Then the cracking that took place with the leg swinging at the start was also gone at the end. I am 51 female with chronic back and shoulder pain... So I have been trying all your videos from the first one with the touching the floor from standing position. 🙏🏾👍🏾. I have already started recommending your site. Thank you... Love the clarity of the explanations 👍🏾
This is certainly my weak link. My hips are so tight/restricted I couldn't do the other psoas exercises at all. This exercise reduced my pain immediately. And I had greater hip extension and less space under my lower back. Thank you so much for providing this information and activity.
Thank you so much for this free content! I am a martial artist and now a parent of a small child, in graduate school, and missing the feelings of wellbeing that I had back when I had so much more time and money for classes and practice. I'm slowly building my home practice with things I remember and little tips like this from generous and talented teachers on RUclips. 🙏🙏🙏
Hi Taro, I'm a PT and OMS myself and i'm very happy that this information is getting out there! Keep it up. A question on a different matter. The stool in the background with the gray liner. Where can I find one? Cheers
Thank you! The sool is called Muista Chair, an active chair that supports comfortable sitting I personally use at home. You can find more information here. This is my affiliate link: muistachair.com?aff=3 Discount coupons TARO5 - 5% discount TARO15 - 15% discount if buying 2 or more chairs
Had a bad fall a month ago. Fell on some metal pipes and broke my hip and shoulder. I am up walking around and will be using you to help me heal even more. Thank you.
Love your videos!!! Very informative and detailed. I want to improve and strengthen my core also. Core is very weak unable to do sit-ups without some form of assistance. I have started incorporating meditation in my daily routine to help relax my body.
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Shocking how „sit straight for 5 seconds“ is an exercise that needs to be mastered.
It’s awakening
Wow. This is great! I'm older (71) and was worried I couldn't do this. I got down on the floor (overcoming my resistance) and found it pleasurable and fun. In a week of doing moderate stretching, I am feeling so much better! Thanks!
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Yay, Stan! Good for you! So many of my friends and family just seemed to give up on their bodies by the time they reached 71 years of age.
Keep it going strong Stan
This exercise is amazing! I felt a release and a pop. I will be doing this everyday. Thank you!
Getting down to the floor and getting back up from the floor in itself is a great mobility exercise that people gradually stop doing as they get older and become confined to chairs and couches, which will take their mobility away and keep them stuck in rigid patterns. Never too old to change! I worked with a 91 old lady (caucasian) who had a total knee replacement and total hip replacement 3 months apart, and was motivated to get back to her yoga! very inspiring, right? I would never judge people's abilities and potential based on their age and conditions.
Unbelievable results!
I had a constant pain in my hip for over a year and after doing this exercise it is gone!
wonderful. thank you. from an 80 year old great grandmother, recovering from ankle surgery and a stroke.
After 4 years of tight hip flexors this video helped me so much
Glad to hear!
Mr. Iwamoto.. I am 65 years old and have osteoarthritis in hip and knee joints .. I stopped jogging about 6 years ago bc of this and started yoga instead .. Recently I added Pilates and now your routines, to increase my range of movement.. I hope they help me .. Thank you
Thank you so much for posting this 🙏! I'm 56 and have started roller skating again 🛼😜 and have been struggling with sore and tight hip flexors during and after a skate session. First time doing this and I feel immediate relief and release and I can't wait to continue to do this every morning to help with my flexibility and hopefully improve my skating style as well!
I just tried this. It totally works and increased circulation through my legs. I struggle with anterior pelvic tilt and this was very interesting! I’m about to watch all the videos.
I felt a significant reduction in the arch of my back laying down after doing the exercises. I will begin to add this to my daily routine and I signed up for the free literature on low back pain. Thank you!
Awesome!!
@@TaroIwamoto I’m in the same boat, I’m going to reach out
Thank you so much for this!
I fell upon this video by chance, and am so grateful for your help, which has had an immense and immediately releasing effect (the very first time I did it today). I have had moderate residual and deep pain in my lower-to-mid back (off slightly to the left) - the result of a back injury that has hampered sitting, walking, standing, sleeping, and yoga for the last four weeks.
After doing this really well explained and demonstrated exercise, I am stunned and so deeply grateful that the pain and tightness has literally disappeared.
It’s taken four weeks to stumble on this amazing curl-and-and-engage exercise, which I’ll be doing daily - first thing after (now) jumping out of bed, and definitely as Taro has suggested, before any exercise.
Thank you again.
I lied down on the floor, but there is no space to even fit my palm behind my back... I wonder what will happen after I do this exercise.
@@КонстантинЦарапкин-ю3и You will become one with the floor! ☯
Actually think this helped with my stretching. I’ve been having pain in the hip for over a year and going to physio twice a week for months now. He said to keep stretching it but after watching this video my stretching was a deeper. Thank you!! 🙏
Very relaxing. I watched this video while laying on my back in bed and fell asleep.
I'm 74 y/o these exercises are so good. I do need the cushion and was surprised what a difference it has made
i’m like. 30 and i’ve had low back pain for about a year. i had a back spasm that was so scary etc and this video. one time only. just hugely improved my back pain. what a cool guy!!!!
I suffer from multiple Sclerosis (MS) and my hip flexors are affected really bad. This exercise is definitely a bit of me. I'm going to include this in my routines 💪
Wow! Thank you very much! I work out regularly and am in pretty good shape. I recently learned to crochet and have become addicted to it. It is a wonderful hobby but it wreaks havoc on my sciatic nerve, because of sitting so long. I followed along with your video. The arch in my back was much less after the exercise you taught! Also, I could feel a different stretch in the hip flexors, which I don't usually get. I love it! Thank you again! I'm going to subscribe!
I thought we was pulling my leg for a minute but then I really felt the muscles engage and felt better after listening and doing it right
I’m excited to try this, my hips have been super tight for years
Very good!
I’m impressed at 7:11 how easily you stood up with no pushing of your arms, just great balance and flexibility.
I am so surprised. And frankly shocked. I have had pain in my low back/upper pelvis for close to 20 years. And I never quite felt, no matter what exercices I did, that I got even close to better that area.
I can feel that this helps! 😮
This is..... wow ..... Thank you so much for putting your content on RUclips for free for us to see. ❤️
Wonderful!! Thanks for sharing your experience!
I definitely noticed a difference in my back arch afterwards. I'm hoping this will help with my hip pain issues; I have minor arthritis but more pain than the arthritis would indicate. I have very tight hip muscles in the crease of my leg/hip area which is definitely a contributing factor.
a change in lower back arch afterwards is a reminder how much tension you hold in hip flexors and how it influences lower back.
Thank you …felt less space in my back at the first try….will continue to do the exercise many thanks
This is Very, Very effective! Definitely adding it to my routine. And, it is so short & easy to do!
Excited to find this! I tried it along with your video and found it totally doable. I’m going to add this to my daily routine of stretches and strengthening exercises. Thank you so much for sharing this technique with us. You present it very nicely and simply-with a good vibe, too. 🙏❤️
Thank you for this. I couldn't walk properly without pain last week. After doing this exercise, most of the pain went and I can freely walk again.
I like the video, a lot. Most individuals do not know what you know: internal awareness. Americans, sadly to report, have no clue of how to begin to roll their pelvis in a posterior tilt at the beginning of your video. This is the first video on your channel I have viewed. Therefore, you may already have discussed this topic of "unawareness" of what your body is doing, volitionally. Contract/relax is a "good" idea, however, now, because so many individuals have hypertonic muscles, inhibit = manual therapies and movement retraining.
On another note, even with cushions or pillows to reduce the amount of hip flexion/external rotation, abduction, cannot be accomplished. Yet, these individuals view your channel. Creating a split-screen with you demonstrating, the second screen with you working with an individual that is very comprised, and a third screen for subscribing to your channel to view practitioners around the world that individuals may be able to connect with would assist so many people, faster.
Thank you for your channel!!
It'll probably be better doing it on the floor or yoga mat. I did it on my bed since it's nighttime and I'm lazy. It still worked quite nicely.
whatever works for you! That's what matters!
I'll have to do it on the bed, if I get on the floor I can't get back up.
@@cherylanne6549 you can do this on bed or modify this and do this while sitting on a chair
I was hurt by rolling heavy hay and pulling big weeds for many years-in just 5 times of doing this my back came closer to floor- I will be watching you regularly-thank you -I have tipped pelvis and narrow tight hips -this will help-just little movements-exercises ruin me -i am older
That was amazing, I had a big difference in my back and my leg extension just from doing that a few times along with the video. Thank you!
wonderful!
I have never been able to sit cross-legged on the floor comfortably. You identified a muscle I didn’t even know I had. This simple psoas exercise will help me address this and my range of motion.
There might be more than one reason why you have a problem sitting cross legs or Indian style! I type so as could do it but also hip adductors bad SI joint. I have an expert on this because I got hit by a semi when I was 17 and I had to figure out what the hell was wrong cuz the doctors couldn't. I invented a new way to treat spondylolises. I don't think you'll go wrong by adding this in your routine no matter what without doing it an examination I've never seen it really hurt anybody. Everybody I've tested has abnormally tight hip flexors unless they're active and very young. Most people have a lower back muscle tightening up along with a hip flexor because they're lower back or so is out. So you want to find out the cause first. Good luck to you
@@BJETNT do you have a link to these resources?
Worth a try my left psoas is shorter
My psoas is so tight that it gives me mid back pain
I tryed it but I need a big cushion
I still have a big gap between my lower back and floor
But it relieved my middle back pain and stiff neck
I really appreciate these videos as they have really made a difference in my ongoing battle with lower body pain. Suggestion please: Move your pose so that we can see the movement from different angles. I think seeing your back from a side view would have been helpful to see whether its flexed or straight. Same with an exercise in another video where you are standing on a split and driving your foot down - is your back leg straight or bent? Seeing it from different angles would really help! Thank you again!
I agree with your suggestions! I will definitely keep that in mind and try to change my positions to give different angles. Thanks for the feedback!
i would donate $5 on a new camera for this....
edit for monetary identifier
Great suggestions! I think I'd get more out of the videos with those changes, too.😊
This is amazing! I have had front hip pain and tightness for over 5 years and this is the best exercise I have tried for relief. Thank you so much!
Amazing! Thank you so much. I've been trying to get my hip flexor to release forever and try to activate my psoas!
so great how you always also refer to people totally not flexible
Very helpful! I plan to incorporate this exercise at the beginning of my routine for sure! Thank you:)
Thanks, this is a missing link exercise for me. I am 72 and a keen dancer and the exercise is helping me improve my leg movement and my maintenance of a neutral pelvis position.
you're welcome:)
Thanks. You make the exercise so simple and effective. I am struggling with my hip flexors and tight hamstrings and it is challenging to do do stretches.
Will give this a try. I am a runner with perpetually tight psoas/ hip flexors. Sitting criss-cross is uncomfortable without a block during my yoga practice. Thank you that I discovered this.
maybe your psoas get tight because of weakness. When you run, you mostly creating hip extension working ur hamstring and glutes and psoas is actually at the lenghten position all the time. Psoas creating hip flexion above 90 degree, so u basically not using this muscle unless u strenghtening it on purpose. Neither sitting cause psoas tightness, it's myth.
Wow! I could hardly believe how much less space between my back and the floor after doing this. This is a life changer! Thank you Taro.
wonderful! so glad to hear that
Top! Very well explained!!!
Love love love again‼️ I can tend to have a "crunch" or "click" around my groin area and doing the checks it was there...then, literally doing this with you, gone. 🙏 I have been playing with Lizard and baby crawl as well...loving your videos. Thank you and will be adding this to my mornings. 🎈🌞 gratitude 🙏
Awesome!!
Holly molly! This really works. Having tight hips or weak hip muscles, created the biggest arch , and has caused lower back for me since I was a teenager. If this improved the space while laying flat after 1 time, imagine after doing it regularly. I assume it will help with abdominal strength too.
Holly Molly is great for stretching.
Ditto. Just started. These tiny adjustments were tough. First, it was painful to just Lay flat even tho not much space between my back and the floor. Uneven tho. But then yoga practice helped me to breath thru it. Oh my goodness. Not easy. I had to use my core which is still strong, not as it was when I was a young dancer but not slack entirely. The immediate relief and difference. Now I have more hope of avoiding surgery and keeping my mobility. My concern rounding the back. I have sciatica so that sitting scissor exercise - caution if your piriformis is out of whack.
@@Sammasambuddha 🙂😄😂🤣
@@jeanettesdaughter get a inversion table. Miraculous for my sciatica
This means you never trained in your life. Good that you started finaly
You are an amazing instructor thank you so much for helping so many of us out here....
thank you!!
I can walk again 🙏 I cannot express my thanks enough❤❤❤
Wow I could feel the difference after this excercise, and noticed where the gap between my back and the floor had decreased.
I have MS. Impossible. Spasms and inability to get down to the floor or back up if I end up on the floor. The warm therapy pool is the only place I can relieve my psoas muscles.
no need to get down to the floor. you can modify this and make it much easier for your body by performing this similar movement while sitting on a chair.
Nice, had to comment to show support because this video was amazing
Thank you!!
Great video and tip on activating the psoas before stretching!
Thanks!
I wasn't sure I was doing it right but lo! Lower back is flatter after doing this!
you must have done something right.
That is amazing! Absolutely blew my Mind. Thank you so much!
Thank you, so much! I tested my mobility as you suggested and had strained movement. I did the release exercise, after the first time, it released it. When I did the mobility test again I was able to move much easier.
Consider making the videos more brief, concept could be explained in less time. You can make the first rep in regular time and then fast forward through the remaining ones..
Thank you for your video. Though, I have trouble understanding why the exercise would reduce the arch in your lower back. I thought engaging the Psoas muscles causes a contraction, making them shorter, which makes your pelvis tilt more forward and therefore causing more space between lower back and floor. Please, help me understand. Thank you.
Habitual tension or contraction in hip flexors is often maintained until its effort is brought to the nervous systems attention. Doing this intentional contraction of hip flexors followed by active lengthening results in inhibition or reduction of hip flexor contraction. Thus reduced anterior pelvic tilt and lumbar extension.
@@TaroIwamoto Oh, so it's the lengthening during contraction that makes the difference. I think I get it now, thank you.
Excellent exercise, great explanation.
Thank you I believe this will help my hip movement.
great exercise. I'm going to incorporate it into my daily routine
Breathing without moving the belly when exhaling helps too
Thank you for the generous and helpful hip flexor wisdom!
Felt this immediately! Great!
I’m going to begin this practice twice daily. I’m in constant pain whether standing, sitting or laying down.
I am curious if this had any positive results for you? Thanks, aaron
Thank you so much. I added your follow along to my library so I can build my routine. I am over sixty and just had a total knee replacement six weeks ago. So now I am able to get a routine going.
How's recovery from the knee surgery going? Sounds intense and scary! I hope you are well.
Awesome video thank you for sharing 👍
I don't see the movement guide to pain free back, can you supply the link? I'm loving your videos!
Here is the link: mailchi.mp/6434a8b84f49/movement-guide-to-pain-free-back
Thanks for the video. I’ve definitely started to realize that my own tightness stems more from muscle weakness and poor activation patterns than anything else. This seems like a good exercise to address just that.
Thanks so much! I’ll do these before my exercises for seniors. You’re very clear in explaining what to do. I appreciate you for sharing this movement/exercise.
Good stuff - just what I need ... thank you for your thought out training sessions.
What a simple yet powerful psoas release exercise. As I sit far too much on the job, this is key to do throughout my shift! Thanks!
The results are immediate in that I feel everything you say I should feel. I'll explore your channel now. Thank you!
this is totally not stretching
Wow! My lower back has less space!! I had to use a cushion but its a start!! Thank you
you are welcome
Thank you, really helpful!
This was actually amazing! Instant results
I will make sure to do this every time I exercise my legs
i just did a boxing class for the first time a couple of days ago and my back and legs havd been sooo sore and this really helped!! felt super relaxing to do right before bad and i def noticed a difference in soreness level + range of movement! thank you so much!
Awesome to hear that!
Wow!!! I have had low back pain dince my early 30's this has been helping. Great video and informative
Wow that was crazy, i had a little curve when lying on the floor but I thought that was normal. After I did this my lower back was basically flat to the floor. thank you!
So often these videos lure you in promising something which seems unlikely. So often the feeling is a bit of a let down after trying what's suggested. I tried this, and the space under right side was much higher before, but now has been restored to the same gap as the left side, after just those 4 reps you suggest. I'm definitely interested in this now. I knew about Feldenkrais from a friend called Wilfried van Dorp who practices, but I never got to have a session with him. I know Feldenkrais must be a small world, maybe you know Wilfried?
Thank you, Taro, for the useful information!
You are welcome:)
Thank you, Taro! I'm still recovering from right hip replacement last March, and just found that this gave my hip more space to move, and that it moved more smoothly and naturally. I appreciate your time and effort!
Works great!!!!!! Thank you so much!!!!!!!
Please to check, for breathing - when we round the back go down, we exhale // when we go up, we inhale. Thank you
Thank you, sir. I had been doing similar forms of these movements, but your instruction is very helpful-- not to mention your insight. I have subscribe and will share your channel with others. Peace, my friend.
I'm amazed by the simplicity of your videos because of the impact they have! This will be the first thing I do before stretching every night. Thank you!
Glad to hear it! I always try to keep my contents as simple and clear as possible. I believe less is more!
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I really appreciate your channel ans your approach... thank you!
And, I would love to see a way to release the psoas and the hip flexors that maybe wasn't so challenging on the core...I mean if you don't have a really strong and stable core yet... or, if you had a hernia or separation in abdominals from child birthing etc... this is a challenging movement.... you make it look easy because you have a really strong core and you're really integrated in your movement... thats my opinion from my experience from trying this 🙏🙂
Thank you!! You can modify this exercise, and do in on a low stool or chair, and gradually progress to a lower surface. There's always a way to make it easier or more challenging, so we just have to start where we're at:)
@@TaroIwamoto Thank you, I appreciate that. Will try this on a stool or chair. Would love to see a demo if that fits into your schedule and if it would be of value to others, as well 🙏🙂
Fantastic! Thank you
Thank you for this… I’m 67 and have been so sedentary that I now have issues. I really appreciate you, thank you for being 🕉😌🙏
I don’t know how scrunched up I was but man it felt like a new day with these !! Breathing is so easy
Thank you so much for this. I am 37 and quite active. I developed hip pain a few years ago and only recently found out I have combined FAI and torn labrum on each side. I have also developed IT band syndrome and bad SI joint pain. PT gave me psoas stretch to do, but I haven’t gotten much relief with similar stretches in the past. I found this video and now do this before my PT assigned psoas stretch and I have found significant reduction in my SI pain and a bit more hip mobility afterward. The range of motion in my hips is pretty limited, but anything helps. And I’ll also take any reduction in chronic pain I can get. Thank you so much!!
In my next video (to be released on 2/23 Wed 6:00am PST), I will share 3 effective hip flexor stretches, which will be a nice follow up video after this one. Those 3 stretches are probably the ones you're already doing, but you might find my cueing for those stretches helpful. Quality over quantity always. How you move makes a difference!
@@TaroIwamoto thank you so much! I am going to check out the new video now. Very grateful I found your channel.
This is truly amazing. Thanks a lot!
You're welcome!
Well this is my fifth video and each time I have been satisfied at the change. I subbed after the first video. 👍🏾 I want to add that my first reaction to the checking space under my back was scepticism ...I was thinking what of people who have naturally big bums/bottoms/posteriors... Cuz I always have a pronounced arch that I usually push my hand under to sleep more comfortably. But after going through the exercise just the once, the space was definitely reduced ...I could not get my whole hand under the space. Then the cracking that took place with the leg swinging at the start was also gone at the end. I am 51 female with chronic back and shoulder pain... So I have been trying all your videos from the first one with the touching the floor from standing position. 🙏🏾👍🏾. I have already started recommending your site. Thank you... Love the clarity of the explanations 👍🏾
This is certainly my weak link. My hips are so tight/restricted I couldn't do the other psoas exercises at all. This exercise reduced my pain immediately. And I had greater hip extension and less space under my lower back. Thank you so much for providing this information and activity.
This is just what I need! Thank you - your explanation is terrific!
Glad to hear!
Very helpful!
Thank you so much, this made such a huge immediate difference in my back and hip pain
Great!
Thank you so much for this free content! I am a martial artist and now a parent of a small child, in graduate school, and missing the feelings of wellbeing that I had back when I had so much more time and money for classes and practice. I'm slowly building my home practice with things I remember and little tips like this from generous and talented teachers on RUclips. 🙏🙏🙏
Hi Taro,
I'm a PT and OMS myself and i'm very happy that this information is getting out there! Keep it up.
A question on a different matter. The stool in the background with the gray liner. Where can I find one?
Cheers
Thank you! The sool is called Muista Chair, an active chair that supports comfortable sitting I personally use at home. You can find more information here. This is my affiliate link: muistachair.com?aff=3
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Had a bad fall a month ago. Fell on some metal pipes and broke my hip and shoulder. I am up walking around and will be using you to help me heal even more. Thank you.
Love your videos!!! Very informative and detailed. I want to improve and strengthen my core also. Core is very weak unable to do sit-ups without some form of assistance. I have started incorporating meditation in my daily routine to help relax my body.
Love that I’ve found your Channel! Do you have something for elbow and or knees?
i dont have specific videos on elbow but my posture videos apply to elbow. for knees, hip videos apply to knees.
That was great! As I did the extension at the end, both my hips had a little pop from the additional space. :)