If you observe most people when they walk, you will see that they appear to be leaned back. Though this looks kind of relaxed, it happens in large part because of a lack of tension in the fascia, and is part of the overall complex that leads to drooping of the torso and dysfunctional walking. In this video we look at some beginner and advanced procedures for working on changing this habit and improving our ability to walk. 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 "When, however, I came to try to put my head forward and up while reciting, I noticed that my old tendency to lift the chest increased, and that with this went a tendency to increase the arch of the spine and thus bring about what I now call 'narrowing the back.' This, I saw, had an adverse effect on the shape and functioning of the torso itself, and I therefore concluded that to maintain a lengthening it was not sufficient to put my head forward and up, but that I must put it forward and up in such a way that I prevented the lifting of the chest and simultaneously brought about a widening of the back." F.M. Alexander
By getting your fascia back into action, your muscles can work more efficiently, and will no longer be unbalanced (overly strong in certain areas, while flaccid in others). That will do a lot to prevent most postural problems. You shouldn’t experience the very common general joint pain that many people in the modern world are plagued by. You should also avoid problems like frozen shoulder and the kind of knee/hip problems that lead many people to need surgery in their 50s or 60s. It will allow much better breathing and vocal production. It can noticeably improve singing ability, prevent the constant sucking in of air that is so common, and allow one to speak without the kinds of breaks and awkward quirks that are quite common. Mentally it can help deal with mind-wandering, repetitive thoughts, phobias, and a tendency to be taken over by emotional gusts. F.M. Alexander believed that postural problems, like the spilling forward of the abdominal viscera, led to issues with the organs, disrupted digestion, and left one more susceptible to disease and disorder. I certainly agree, as I think that simply by having the parts of the body in their correct places, they are able to function better, and a well functioning body is typically able to keep itself well (within reason).
F.M. Alexander’s first book called Man’s Supreme Inheritance is quite good, but a little hard to read. The second section entitled Conscious Guidance and Control is the most impactful in my view. You can also search Initial Alexander Technique (I’d put the link, but links don’t go through typically), Masoero has many good articles there.
Isn’t sleeping prone on the floor going to passively fix the sternum position anyway? Surely if it’s angled backwards, gravity bringing force upon the rib cage when sleeping prone on a rigid surface, is going to be mechanically corrected 🤔 So part of this issue coming from sleeping on soft surfaces. I believe this is a contributor to the issue of upper / lower cross syndrome that affects walking.
Hi, I want to help you. I have a very tight upper jaw that is not consistent with the lower jaw. It looks like not good. Tell me how to expand and grow the upper jaw to become consistent. I watched the videos and did not understand what I should do.
In my view, the problems people have related to the maxilla and the structure of the face are tied up with the general postural problems. If the bony structures of your torso (ribcage and pelvis) are out of place, the shape of the torso is changed, shortened, and basically collapses. This is because the fascia is no longer taut, so the muscles become unbalanced and pull the torso into crumpled, twisted mess. The same is true of the head. When the fascia of the head and neck are not taut, the skull is pulled out of shape and essentially collapses. But the fascia of the head and neck are dependent on support from the torso. If your back is not properly supporting your head, you head will go back and down or forward and down: neither of which is desirable, and both will cause the head become misshapen. So in my view, the torso must be addressed first. Without the support of the torso, the head can never get to its correct relative position, and so the fascia will be limp. The first question is what’s happening with your torso. Is your lower back hollowed out? Is your sternum tilted back at the top? Is your midsection pushed forward? Once you correct the torso, you can get into the specifics of the head and neck. You can reorganize the head and neck in such a way that lengthens the fascia, and then the muscles and fascia will produce forces that widen and lift the maxilla. Over time that will undo the shortening and narrowing habits in the mouth area. Basically, you need to stop shortening and narrowing, first in the torso, and then in the head and neck. I have playlists on my channel of my series that cover the torso, the leg and arms, and the head and neck. There are many procedures in those series that can you work with. If you’re looking for direct assistance, I also offer lessons one on one over Zoom.
Have you ever researched modern day hunter/gatherer societies as further evidence for correct posture? The logic being that a human in its natural habitat should display "perfect" posture. I tried this but quickly realised I do not contain enough knowledge to hypothesise why some present with posture similar to your ideal posture and some clear suffer from anterior pelvic tilt.
I’ve definitely noticed that some non-civilized people, especially children, have very protruded abdomens and a forward tilt of their pelvis. I’m afraid I can’t give you much insight on this topic, but I would say that I don’t think we should take it for granted that a person living a non-civilized lifestyle will necessarily have good posture. F.M. Alexander believed that due to the fact that mankind had reasoning powers, that our only route to ideal use of the self was through those reasoning powers, and that simply attempting to be guided by natural instincts, even when they're accurately honed by a natural life, would lead one to have a posture that is typically much better than the average modern person, but still not ideal or controlled. Maybe there’s a bit of a circular argument there, or maybe it’s just tautological, but if you aren’t consciously guiding your actions, and instead are simply well adapted to your natural environment, you don’t have conscious control over your actions, you just have well suited subconscious guidance. Maybe a more natural person doesn’t need conscious guidance because even if they aren’t ideal, they’re still doing good enough to not have any significant pain or postural problems. But most of us do not and never will live a natural life, and for us, Alexander may be right, that the only way out of postural dysfunction and its consequences is through conscious control.
If you observe most people when they walk, you will see that they appear to be leaned back. Though this looks kind of relaxed, it happens in large part because of a lack of tension in the fascia, and is part of the overall complex that leads to drooping of the torso and dysfunctional walking. In this video we look at some beginner and advanced procedures for working on changing this habit and improving our ability to walk.
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
"When, however, I came to try to put my head forward and up while reciting, I noticed that my old tendency to lift the chest increased, and that with this went a tendency to increase the arch of the spine and thus bring about what I now call 'narrowing the back.' This, I saw, had an adverse effect on the shape and functioning of the torso itself, and I therefore concluded that to maintain a lengthening it was not sufficient to put my head forward and up, but that I must put it forward and up in such a way that I prevented the lifting of the chest and simultaneously brought about a widening of the back."
F.M. Alexander
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This is very interesting, I’m trying to incorporate this posture as often as I can
What are the benefits of adopting this posture?
By getting your fascia back into action, your muscles can work more efficiently, and will no longer be unbalanced (overly strong in certain areas, while flaccid in others). That will do a lot to prevent most postural problems. You shouldn’t experience the very common general joint pain that many people in the modern world are plagued by. You should also avoid problems like frozen shoulder and the kind of knee/hip problems that lead many people to need surgery in their 50s or 60s.
It will allow much better breathing and vocal production. It can noticeably improve singing ability, prevent the constant sucking in of air that is so common, and allow one to speak without the kinds of breaks and awkward quirks that are quite common.
Mentally it can help deal with mind-wandering, repetitive thoughts, phobias, and a tendency to be taken over by emotional gusts.
F.M. Alexander believed that postural problems, like the spilling forward of the abdominal viscera, led to issues with the organs, disrupted digestion, and left one more susceptible to disease and disorder. I certainly agree, as I think that simply by having the parts of the body in their correct places, they are able to function better, and a well functioning body is typically able to keep itself well (within reason).
@@delsartealexandermasoeroyo9147 that is very interesting man. What are some resources you recommend reading to get a better grasp of the theory
F.M. Alexander’s first book called Man’s Supreme Inheritance is quite good, but a little hard to read. The second section entitled Conscious Guidance and Control is the most impactful in my view. You can also search Initial Alexander Technique (I’d put the link, but links don’t go through typically), Masoero has many good articles there.
Isn’t sleeping prone on the floor going to passively fix the sternum position anyway? Surely if it’s angled backwards, gravity bringing force upon the rib cage when sleeping prone on a rigid surface, is going to be mechanically corrected 🤔
So part of this issue coming from sleeping on soft surfaces. I believe this is a contributor to the issue of upper / lower cross syndrome that affects walking.
Hi, I want to help you. I have a very tight upper jaw that is not consistent with the lower jaw. It looks like not good. Tell me how to expand and grow the upper jaw to become consistent. I watched the videos and did not understand what I should do.
In my view, the problems people have related to the maxilla and the structure of the face are tied up with the general postural problems. If the bony structures of your torso (ribcage and pelvis) are out of place, the shape of the torso is changed, shortened, and basically collapses. This is because the fascia is no longer taut, so the muscles become unbalanced and pull the torso into crumpled, twisted mess.
The same is true of the head. When the fascia of the head and neck are not taut, the skull is pulled out of shape and essentially collapses. But the fascia of the head and neck are dependent on support from the torso. If your back is not properly supporting your head, you head will go back and down or forward and down: neither of which is desirable, and both will cause the head become misshapen.
So in my view, the torso must be addressed first. Without the support of the torso, the head can never get to its correct relative position, and so the fascia will be limp. The first question is what’s happening with your torso. Is your lower back hollowed out? Is your sternum tilted back at the top? Is your midsection pushed forward?
Once you correct the torso, you can get into the specifics of the head and neck. You can reorganize the head and neck in such a way that lengthens the fascia, and then the muscles and fascia will produce forces that widen and lift the maxilla. Over time that will undo the shortening and narrowing habits in the mouth area.
Basically, you need to stop shortening and narrowing, first in the torso, and then in the head and neck. I have playlists on my channel of my series that cover the torso, the leg and arms, and the head and neck. There are many procedures in those series that can you work with. If you’re looking for direct assistance, I also offer lessons one on one over Zoom.
@@delsartealexandermasoeroyo9147Thankyou❤️
Have you ever researched modern day hunter/gatherer societies as further evidence for correct posture? The logic being that a human in its natural habitat should display "perfect" posture.
I tried this but quickly realised I do not contain enough knowledge to hypothesise why some present with posture similar to your ideal posture and some clear suffer from anterior pelvic tilt.
I’ve definitely noticed that some non-civilized people, especially children, have very protruded abdomens and a forward tilt of their pelvis. I’m afraid I can’t give you much insight on this topic, but I would say that I don’t think we should take it for granted that a person living a non-civilized lifestyle will necessarily have good posture.
F.M. Alexander believed that due to the fact that mankind had reasoning powers, that our only route to ideal use of the self was through those reasoning powers, and that simply attempting to be guided by natural instincts, even when they're accurately honed by a natural life, would lead one to have a posture that is typically much better than the average modern person, but still not ideal or controlled. Maybe there’s a bit of a circular argument there, or maybe it’s just tautological, but if you aren’t consciously guiding your actions, and instead are simply well adapted to your natural environment, you don’t have conscious control over your actions, you just have well suited subconscious guidance.
Maybe a more natural person doesn’t need conscious guidance because even if they aren’t ideal, they’re still doing good enough to not have any significant pain or postural problems. But most of us do not and never will live a natural life, and for us, Alexander may be right, that the only way out of postural dysfunction and its consequences is through conscious control.
What if you dont have upper wisdom teeth lol
Bro wtf