One of my most favorite Feldenkrais lessons ever, one that I regularly come back to. It does free my chest, actually, it frees up pretty much my whole body. Thank you for this gift of a class Stewart!
It has been morning lovely time on the mat and begin to ask myself how I feel today. Finally I understand how important to feel that my body changes every day. I see birds walk with weight transferring. I was moved ladies are carrying dead persons in the dried tree on the head and walk with weight transferring to Ganges, beautiful movement of weight transferring!
World knows, but certainly not as much as it is needed. I guess that one thing that presents feldenkrais from spreading it's not the time it takes to learn the twchnique for ATM (groups) and then the FI (1 to 1) but the price of the courses. Around 18,000 USD plus your expensas durante your 3-4 year training: hotel, plane tickets, meals. Few people can afford that, as well as having a job that allows you from being absent during your training periods
@@pacojavo2978 these videos and the website subscription is more than enough to help millions more of people suffering pelvic injuries, joint problems etc. just releasing my right pelvis from the courses alone cut out my IBS symptoms and enriched my sex life. Who would have known it was all mechanical !!!
Thanks Stewart! Your instructions are so clear . . . and today I managed to get my fingers under my feet . . . I will be ready to run away to the Circus soon ;-)
I started to do the lesson because in that terrible heat I felt like a slight shortage of breathing. The result is absolutely amazing! And I should notice that this particular set requires deep mindfulness! So it's an excellent way to develop our ability to focus and to keep high attention! So many thanks and gratitude!
Hellow Stewart, I am still around doing your lessons daily, I chose this one, and happy knees, From that knarly Ness, and that klankiness, I am unfolding, restructuring, I had tried everything, and it is amazing, the change, the solace of hope and improvement. One of the things for instance was that when I layed down on the floor my fusion zone was a protuberant knot, I am laying now, and my back feels all evenly spread, still have some issues, with bicep tendonitis, but everything has improved 60 percent. Thank you Stewart!!!
Thank you Åsa. I taught this lesson again to my class this morning. I never get tired of it. There's always something new to discover in it. Stay well 😊
This was fantastic-I’ve know for a long time my left hip feels heavier when I lay on my back but I hadn’t noticed my ribs were shifted right. This brought so much awareness to my posture- thank you!
Wow! What a journey. I like the parts toward the end that I felt some cross connections of body parts that I wasn't aware existed or could move that way. Thank you so much!
You are very welcome T! Thank you for commenting. A good one to explore after this might be How to find neck and shoulder relief. It's the video which shows me on the thumbnail with a yellow and black football.
@@stewarthamblin Great! Will do! I have been doing one a day. When I woke up yesterday, I felt like I had regained the whole right side if my body. I don't remember which one. Thank you so much.
Hola, Stewart. Well, I'm back to these movements, but this time I am going to use them to try to fix my thoracic spine, which is twisted to the right, and causing instability on my upper cervical. I rolled a towel and place it along the right side of my thoracic spine as I did these lesson, and I feel (more like, I hope) that this will put my thoracic spine back to the normal* shape (this time around I was able to put my fingers under the bottom of my feet!. Gracias por tus videos, están siendo una enorme ayuda.✌️
Hola Luyz, each time I come back to a lesson there's always something new for me to discover and I try to approach them with a 'beginner's mind '. I look forward to hearing how it goes for you! Hugs
That was great thank you. I was looking for something to ease up my ribs as I've somehow bruised the right side of my chest and everything was tightening up around it. Much better now! The magic of Feldenkrais! I liked your clear explanations of what should be happening.
I do it all the time Anna in my Orange Ball workshops: here's a review from a student "I love the brilliance of Stewart's ball workshop. The balls give great feedback and a much needed release of the sacrum while teaching the fine mechanics of pelvic movement. As a yoga therapist I'm always looking at ways to release my own often tight hips and his way of incorporating Feldenkrais and fascial release is just beautiful. Additionally Stewart's sense of humor and kind heartedness is a bonus!"
Thank you for doing these online. Feldenkrais is a godsend and your lessons are calming and clear!I have chronic neck head and shoulder pain. Looking for one of your lessons that will calm the strain I feel at front of neck, where muscles attach to clavicles and the back of neck. It is difficult to hold my head up when upright if that helps you understand what I mean.
Hi Ursula, thank you very much for your message. Have you tried the Ungluing the lungs lessons? They explore allowing the breath to move into the upper part of the chest ie the area of the clavicles. Then perhaps explore Free the Neck and Shoulders and Free the Neck and Head. Do take care. Stewart
I conquered all the movements!. Now I hope it can lead to fix my twisted thoracic spine (this is my own conclusion to this lesson). Stewart, listo para el partido del Viernes?.✌️😜
This was good. I couldn't reach hands under foot, does this indicate my ribs doesn't have enough movement? I feel stiffness especially around sternum area. Is there a good lesson to release the sternum area?
I was not supposed to do more classes, but I saw this one, to open the chest, where my tight pectorals are, and wow, very powerful, another great class, I think I am keeping this, because I have a bicep tendonitis and un glue your shoulders as my two musts, one question, this time you lift your hips, it is not like a transference, aren't lower back muscles working here. Thank you Stewart great class, super interesting. How did Moshe came with all this movements? Divine inspiration?
Thank you Lucy 😊 the lower back on one side will contract but you are really trying to bring the lower back on the other side into the floor so that the movement is s weight transfer rather than a push.
@@stewarthamblin as I am fused without the bars, or any metal, I would make an important comment, the elongation and opening of this lesson was very well tolerated and welcomed,I think my problem is more of a closed chest, have a good day Stewart, thank you for your super cool classes.
Thanks, that was a really great one. I've done lessons a bit like this before, but I had a really severe anterior pelvic tilt for a very long time that was hugely getting in the way of my habits, chiefly on the right side. I don't think I've had a chance to really feel these types of things properly on that side before, as the habit had been so strong. The points about sucking in the stomach rather than just using the legs was especially useful here. Going to the right I'd always found it close to impossible to get a sense of anything close to a semicircle on the clock. I think sucking the stomach in is a really vital thing for me to get that sense of the curve. One slightly strange observation BTW, which might sound like an awful result after a Feldenkrais lesson, but I'm sure is genuinely good- by the end my right shoulder was feeling a bit like it had been tenderised like a steak! I'm not talking about aches from strain, but from simply being massaged against the floor. My right shoulder is generally hugely held forward by tightness in various ribs and hardly ever gets to sit against the floor properly. I don't think my ribs had ever let go enough for some of the flesh to bear weight like that. I'll definitely have to come back to this one again, as it seems to target all of the issues I need to resolve.
Thank you so much for taking the time to write. It was a lovely lesson to teach and do. I think what you are experiencing in the shoulder is really interesting. Feldenkrais often used a technique of reversing habitual patterns of use. In day to day life for example the usual pattern is to move the shoulder blade around the ribs. In this lesson though the shoulder blade is 'fixed' into the floor but we are moving the ribs around the shoulder blade meaning that the holding patterns are often being challenged to change. He was such a clever man.
You really are amazing, because your variations and explanations are fabulous. I have the same patterns as you do. What, besides feldenkrais, like in strength training, do you do to help balance out these terrible habit patterns? Also, I realized my right lats are super tight. Is this a good lesson for those as well or are there more specific lessons for that?
Hi Andrea, thank you very much. I think this is an excellent lesson for the lats. Any lesson which changes the back will help to change the lats. Also any lesson that focuses of the pelvis, arms and shoulders. I just put a video on my Fit Sit series called Free the Shoulders. You might like to try that. In terms of other training I use a very cheap exercise bike that I have in my garage for cardio work and I also do resistance work using bands (I should do a video!). I try not to do them as exercises though but applying my Feldenkrais approach. I think it is important to build resistance work into our routines particularly as we age to combat the sarcopenia that would otherwise occur. Have a lovely weekend.
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One of my most favorite Feldenkrais lessons ever, one that I regularly come back to. It does free my chest, actually, it frees up pretty much my whole body. Thank you for this gift of a class Stewart!
You are very welcome Canic. It's one of my favourites too!
It has been morning lovely time on the mat and begin to ask myself how I feel today. Finally I understand how important to feel that my body changes every day. I see birds walk with weight transferring. I was moved ladies are carrying dead persons in the dried tree on the head and walk with weight transferring to Ganges, beautiful movement of weight transferring!
We need a story on how you came across this magical practice of Feldenkrais, if only the world knew !
Thank you very much Benevolence.
World knows, but certainly not as much as it is needed. I guess that one thing that presents feldenkrais from spreading it's not the time it takes to learn the twchnique for ATM (groups) and then the FI (1 to 1) but the price of the courses. Around 18,000 USD plus your expensas durante your 3-4 year training: hotel, plane tickets, meals. Few people can afford that, as well as having a job that allows you from being absent during your training periods
@@pacojavo2978 these videos and the website subscription is more than enough to help millions more of people suffering pelvic injuries, joint problems etc. just releasing my right pelvis from the courses alone cut out my IBS symptoms and enriched my sex life. Who would have known it was all mechanical !!!
Yes make a video of your recovery
I forgot how fabulous this lesson was for my ribs and breathing. Perfect one to revisit while I have Covid. Thank you Stewart 🙏
Thank you Karen. Have just been through COVID myself. Do take care and give yourself time to rest. Wishing you a full recovery 🙏🏼
Thanks Stewart! Your instructions are so clear . . . and today I managed to get my fingers under my feet . . . I will be ready to run away to the Circus soon ;-)
Thank you so much Sheila!
I started to do the lesson because in that terrible heat I felt like a slight shortage of breathing. The result is absolutely amazing! And I should notice that this particular set requires deep mindfulness! So it's an excellent way to develop our ability to focus and to keep high attention! So many thanks and gratitude!
You are very welcome Tatiana. The summer seems to be going so quickly.
Beautiful symphony of the Feldenkrais work (pleasure)
Thanks so much Murray 😊
This is a great lesson and you guided through it so wonderfully. Thank you so much! ❤
Thanks so much ShoRu, that's really kind of you.
one of the best lessons ever!!!!! thank you so much
You are very welcome and thank you 🙏
Hellow Stewart, I am still around doing your lessons daily, I chose this one, and happy knees,
From that knarly Ness, and that klankiness, I am unfolding, restructuring, I had tried everything, and it is amazing, the change, the solace of hope and improvement. One of the things for instance was that when I layed down on the floor my fusion zone was a protuberant knot, I am laying now, and my back feels all evenly spread, still have some issues, with bicep tendonitis, but everything has improved 60 percent. Thank you Stewart!!!
It's lovely to hear from you Lucy and thank you for sharing 😊
I love how precise you are in your guidence, it always help me find the gold hidden in ATMs, finally I can get that sturdy sternum to straighten
Thank you very much Mike, that's very kind of you. I love this lesson!
Mmmm so so helpful! I feel much more relaxed and embodied 🙏🏾❤️
Wonderful Brionne, thank you.
Just what I needed. I was so stiff in my chest and now I fell free and it's easy to breath. Thank you!
Thank you Åsa. I taught this lesson again to my class this morning. I never get tired of it. There's always something new to discover in it. Stay well 😊
Certainly Stewart's lessons continue to 'give' the more you do them - and pagtience rewards in th end!
Thank you Ann, that's really kind of you. So nice to have you in class too!
This was fantastic-I’ve know for a long time my left hip feels heavier when I lay on my back but I hadn’t noticed my ribs were shifted right. This brought so much awareness to my posture- thank you!
That's so nice of you to say so Jody, thank you
Amazing! Just amazing! Thank you ever so much for your lessons!
You are welcome Emma, I am glad you enjoyed the lesson.
Excellent lesson! Thanks Stewart 👍☺
Thank you very much Matt.
Thanks Stewart that was amazing and very clear instructions.
Thank you very much Colin, am glad you enjoyed the lesson.
Wow! What a journey. I like the parts toward the end that I felt some cross connections of body parts that I wasn't aware existed or could move that way. Thank you so much!
You are very welcome T! Thank you for commenting. A good one to explore after this might be How to find neck and shoulder relief. It's the video which shows me on the thumbnail with a yellow and black football.
@@stewarthamblin Great! Will do! I have been doing one a day. When I woke up yesterday, I felt like I had regained the whole right side if my body. I don't remember which one. Thank you so much.
Hola, Stewart. Well, I'm back to these movements, but this time I am going to use them to try to fix my thoracic spine, which is twisted to the right, and causing instability on my upper cervical. I rolled a towel and place it along the right side of my thoracic spine as I did these lesson, and I feel (more like, I hope) that this will put my thoracic spine back to the normal* shape (this time around I was able to put my fingers under the bottom of my feet!.
Gracias por tus videos, están siendo una enorme ayuda.✌️
Hola Luyz, each time I come back to a lesson there's always something new for me to discover and I try to approach them with a 'beginner's mind '. I look forward to hearing how it goes for you! Hugs
@@stewarthamblin 👍✌️
That was great thank you. I was looking for something to ease up my ribs as I've somehow bruised the right side of my chest and everything was tightening up around it. Much better now! The magic of Feldenkrais! I liked your clear explanations of what should be happening.
Thanks very much Mary, I am glad the lesson was able to help
This was such a great lesson! Thank you!
REALLY loved this one! Thank you Stewart!
Me too Shyama. I love the way it challenges the ribs into new movements. Stay well!
This is a major shoulder opener as well.
It is :-)
Wow new class to see!!!!
Have you ever combined feldenkrais moving with fascial release? I just 12-3-a-clocked lightly on a fascia ball and oh the gorgeousness that followed
I do it all the time Anna in my Orange Ball workshops: here's a review from a student "I love the brilliance of Stewart's ball workshop. The balls give great feedback and a much needed release of the sacrum while teaching the fine mechanics of pelvic movement.
As a yoga therapist I'm always looking at ways to release my own often tight hips and his way of incorporating Feldenkrais and fascial release is just beautiful. Additionally Stewart's sense of humor and kind heartedness is a bonus!"
Great minds think alike ;)
Thank you for doing these online. Feldenkrais is a godsend and your lessons are calming and clear!I have chronic neck head and shoulder pain. Looking for one of your lessons that will calm the strain I feel at front of neck, where muscles attach to clavicles and the back of neck. It is difficult to hold my head up when upright if that helps you understand what I mean.
Hi Ursula, thank you very much for your message. Have you tried the Ungluing the lungs lessons? They explore allowing the breath to move into the upper part of the chest ie the area of the clavicles. Then perhaps explore Free the Neck and Shoulders and Free the Neck and Head. Do take care. Stewart
@@stewarthamblin thank you Stewart, I will try all of those.
I conquered all the movements!. Now I hope it can lead to fix my twisted thoracic spine (this is my own conclusion to this lesson).
Stewart, listo para el partido del Viernes?.✌️😜
Thanks Luyz. I love coming back to these lessons. There's always something new to discover in them. Fingers crossed for Friday 😊🤞
Magnífico
Beatifull class
Thank you Shanti
Thank you!
This was good. I couldn't reach hands under foot, does this indicate my ribs doesn't have enough movement? I feel stiffness especially around sternum area. Is there a good lesson to release the sternum area?
Hi Maija, have you tried the Free the Ribs lesson and/or the Fit Sit lesson: side bending to improve walking? Both are great for the ribs.
Not yet, just found your videos. I will try those 🙂
I was not supposed to do more classes, but I saw this one, to open the chest, where my tight pectorals are, and wow, very powerful, another great class, I think I am keeping this, because I have a bicep tendonitis and un glue your shoulders as my two musts, one question, this time you lift your hips, it is not like a transference, aren't lower back muscles working here. Thank you Stewart great class, super interesting. How did Moshe came with all this movements? Divine inspiration?
Thank you Lucy 😊 the lower back on one side will contract but you are really trying to bring the lower back on the other side into the floor so that the movement is s weight transfer rather than a push.
@@stewarthamblin as I am fused without the bars, or any metal, I would make an important comment, the elongation and opening of this lesson was very well tolerated and welcomed,I think my problem is more of a closed chest, have a good day Stewart, thank you for your super cool classes.
@@lucycarlos4923 Thank you Lucy. I love to hear about your explorations. Have a lovely day yourself.
Thanks, that was a really great one. I've done lessons a bit like this before, but I had a really severe anterior pelvic tilt for a very long time that was hugely getting in the way of my habits, chiefly on the right side. I don't think I've had a chance to really feel these types of things properly on that side before, as the habit had been so strong.
The points about sucking in the stomach rather than just using the legs was especially useful here. Going to the right I'd always found it close to impossible to get a sense of anything close to a semicircle on the clock. I think sucking the stomach in is a really vital thing for me to get that sense of the curve.
One slightly strange observation BTW, which might sound like an awful result after a Feldenkrais lesson, but I'm sure is genuinely good- by the end my right shoulder was feeling a bit like it had been tenderised like a steak! I'm not talking about aches from strain, but from simply being massaged against the floor. My right shoulder is generally hugely held forward by tightness in various ribs and hardly ever gets to sit against the floor properly. I don't think my ribs had ever let go enough for some of the flesh to bear weight like that. I'll definitely have to come back to this one again, as it seems to target all of the issues I need to resolve.
Thank you so much for taking the time to write. It was a lovely lesson to teach and do. I think what you are experiencing in the shoulder is really interesting. Feldenkrais often used a technique of reversing habitual patterns of use. In day to day life for example the usual pattern is to move the shoulder blade around the ribs. In this lesson though the shoulder blade is 'fixed' into the floor but we are moving the ribs around the shoulder blade meaning that the holding patterns are often being challenged to change. He was such a clever man.
great lessons, would even be better if you used an external mic.:)
It would Marcus. I am saving up for a new camcorder that would enable me to do that. At the moment I have to make do with what I have.
Oh, boy. I couldn't get my fingers under my heels at the same time, so I just reached as much as I could.
Does that count.
No, that's completely fine Luyz
You really are amazing, because your variations and explanations are fabulous. I have the same patterns as you do. What, besides feldenkrais, like in strength training, do you do to help balance out these terrible habit patterns? Also, I realized my right lats are super tight. Is this a good lesson for those as well or are there more specific lessons for that?
Hi Andrea, thank you very much. I think this is an excellent lesson for the lats. Any lesson which changes the back will help to change the lats. Also any lesson that focuses of the pelvis, arms and shoulders. I just put a video on my Fit Sit series called Free the Shoulders. You might like to try that. In terms of other training I use a very cheap exercise bike that I have in my garage for cardio work and I also do resistance work using bands (I should do a video!). I try not to do them as exercises though but applying my Feldenkrais approach. I think it is important to build resistance work into our routines particularly as we age to combat the sarcopenia that would otherwise occur. Have a lovely weekend.
@@stewarthamblin And I would LOVE LOVE your band resistance workouts!