Finding Symmetry: Feldenkrais Neck and Back Release
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- Опубликовано: 8 фев 2025
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Welcome to my channel and welcome back to followers. I'm and Australian Physiotherapist and Feldenkrais Practitioner and I specialise in working with people who have persistent or chronic pain. It is wonderful to be able to share the Feldenkrais Method with you through these short, free videos. These lessons encapsulate the feel of the method but are in 'short form' - really just 'tasters'. To fully experience Feldenkrais you should find a practitioner in your area.
In this lesson you will lie on a blanket roller, gently exploring movements of the two sides of the body in a way that helps to improve your flexibility and symmetry while normalising muscle tone and releasing tension in your neck, back and all along your spine. I find it really helps me sense my central axis more clearly, improving my posture and alignment.
TIPS FOR MAXIMUM BENEFIT
Pay attention to your breathing - allow it to be natural and easy
Reduce effort and keep the movements Small, Slow and Smooth
Don't do anything that doesn't feel right to you
SUGGESTED INSTRUCTIONS
First watch the video, imagining yourself doing the movements smoothly and effortlessly. Then lie down on a comfortable mat, thick carpet or folded blanket and do the movements with your eyes closed, listening to the instructions and paying close attention to the sensations in your body.
PLEASE VISIT US: free2move.com.au/ for lots more info on the Feldenkrais Method and exercises you can do at home for your back, neck, shoulders and hips.
PLEASE REMEMBER: Listen to your body and don't do anything that doesn't feel comfortable for you.This is an intermediate level exercise.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
I would like to acknowledge Moshe Feldenkrais, inventor of the method, as well as Ruthy Alon, an inspirational teacher and Feldenkrais Trainer, who developed and taught the Magic Blanket series of lessons. I have found these lessons and her teaching to be profound and powerful.
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FANTASTIC!! what a cool way to sense contralateral line of the body! Thank you! dar Question: would you put this at and end of class or start of class?
Thanks Darlene. Hmm. Are you talking about a Feldenkrais class? This is kind of a summary of a whole lesson. You could fill it out our use it at the beginning or end really. What did you think? Jodie
Hi Dar, I often use this at the beginning and the end. And sometimes fill it out as a whole lesson including other positions
Why do you call it an exercise and not a lesson? Because it's such a short demonstration?
'A rose by any other name would smell as sweet'
It could be called either a lesson or an exercise. You're right, this is so short it it's really just part of a lesson. Feldenkrais is not the same as doing exercise ( when it means ' workout') although some lessons are actually quite strenuous and you DO get some exercise! Anything you practice and do many times could be called an exercise, including Feldenkrais. But all this is really just semantics!
I think what you are pointing to is that we want to do the movements in a mindful way, and we want to explore exactly how we are doing the movements. We want to become more aware of it habits and discover new and more efficient options. Ultimately the purpose is learning, not fitness, so that's why Moshe usually used the term 'lesson' . But sometimes he also said 'exercise'
@@JodieKrantz hmm. I've studied feldenkrais atm lessons for almost 16 years in San Francisco, and received over hundred FIs from my physical therapist who is also a gfcp, and never has s/he referred to them as exercises. Not until I found you online about five years ago, as well as Charlie Murdock who've termed them as exercise or reminder ATMs. I'll ask Jean Elvin, MA (in dance and GCFP), as well as your fellow countryman from downunder, Cliff Smyth, PT, PhD from Melbourne who, with his wife Debra Bowes DPT, co-owners and facilitators of the SF Feldenkrais center of movement and education. Imo, I believe GCFPs refer to Feldenkrais lessons as exercise to attract new client because Feldenkrais to the average person doesn't know from the method. After 16 years, still I cannot get a succinct answer from a GCFP what Feldenkrais is. As you in one of your other videos have stated, it's generally not stretching or repetitive, but mindful movement in order to better sense the other parts of the body whens say, rolling an arm in and out, up to the ceiling or to the floor whilst lying supine on a mat or folded towel. It's my observation and not an indictment of you or any or all GCFPs. The videos in which Moshe spoke about his lessons, I've only heard him use the term lesson and not exercise. Maybe If the method were more like Pilates and there were accessories like in yoga, it would be more popular. Most of the PCPs and spinal specialists in San Francisco have never heard of Feldenkrais but have taken a weekend workshop then claim to use it in physical therapy. The GCFPs I've seen scoff at that, just as some PTs scoff at Feldenkrais. I love the method and it has reorganized my stenosis in my shoulders, feet, lumbar spine, as well as kept me off the surgical table for the congenital malady, ankylosing spondylitis in my cervical and thoracic.
Not to dis you, Judy, as truly I love your spinal arches and lessons for the jaw, neck and pelvis, in the wee hours last night I thought to query you about the language and subtle differences between lessons and exercises. As it's more semantics than actual differential distinction, thank you for your time and explanation.
G. Soyls, DMA
@@gemmasoyls6445 it's great that Feldenkrais has been so helpful for you and I love the way you are questioning this. You might like to read ' Awareness Through Movement' Moshe's most digestible book. That's one place where the lessons are referred to as exercises (though you are really exercising the brain more than the body)