Better Turning of the Spine for Neck & Back Health

Many of us are planning resolutions to make positive changes in improving our health, relationships, personal development, or work habits.
The principles of the Feldenkrais Method can help us with our goals. After all, the method is about retraining our brain and nervous system and learning new ways to do things.
- Start small, go slowly, and make successive approximations.
- Focus on the process, not the goal.
- Practice awareness. Check-in with yourself regularly.
- Reduce unnecessary effort and tension.
- Accept confusion and failure as part of the learning process.
- Rest frequently.
- Be kind to yourself and be playful.
The science of habits suggests a super-simple way to get us started. If your resolution is to exercise more regularly - start with one push-up a day before bedtime. Make the act of the new, desired habit so easy that you simply can’t fail. And then do it consistently, every day.
Is one of your goals for 2023 to move and feel better?
Are you tired of chronic pain, tension, and strain? Does your posture or balance need work? Would you like to act with grace and ease?
Regular practice of the Feldenkrais Method® can help a lot. Inspired by the concept of “one push-up a day,” I invite you to study with me for only a few minutes daily. I will release a short video of a fragment of a delightful Feldenkrais lesson daily. Do it for seven days and see how much you can change in such a short time. The topic of this first lesson is improved rotations of the entire body (easier turning of the head and enhanced flexibility of the shoulders, rib cage, spine, pelvis, and hips.)
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[@EllsworthBeastMajor]

Such an amazing change in my thoracic mobility from this video. Looking forward to getting into the back catalogue! Thank you!

[@joycelawrence1396]

A beautiful brilliant lesson. An amazing change in mobility. Will add this to my daily practice and share with my students in class tomorrow. Thanks for creating this video for all of us to learn from.

[@DYMASbeautiful]

Thanks for this!

[@luyzqint3760]

Thank you ✌️

[@sharongordon2322]

Thank you this was a wonderful short practice to start the day!

[@suzannebransome860]

11:06am EST. March 8. I’m aware of my strengths and my weaknesses..I feel more alive and definitely more flexible than when I started. Thank you Marek.

[@debrachilcott7179]

Delightful lesson to open ourselves to the new year. I feel like I have dancers arms that want to reach out and share the air.

[@joycelawrence1396]

Kindly explain differentiation. I want to understand it. Thank you.

[@FeldenkraisNYC]

Differentiation is when there is freedom of movement/freedom to choose to move one part of the body or a bone relative to another., Undifferentiated movement is when both parts are moving together like one piece. For example you can turn the head and eyes in a fixed (undifferentiated way) like a submarine's periscope, or you can differentiate movements of the eyes and head - move eyes first, move head first, move eyes and head in opposition, etc.
I hop this explanation helped.

[@joycelawrence1396]

@@FeldenkraisNYC Thank you for this very thorough explanation of differentiation. I appreciated you bringing this together for me.

[@tbella57]

This felt amazing!

[@luyzqint3760]

Do we have to do one at the time, or can we do two or three lessons at once?.✌️

[@meerashah9006]

Are these movements safe if you have osteoporosis ??

[@FeldenkraisNYC]

Spine with osteoporosis is most vulnerable with flexion (meaning forward bending) especially with compression. The movements presented in this particular series do not have forward bending component. Most of them explore rotation with an element of extension (backward bending). I would skip session #6 and 7, otherwise as long as you move within an easy and comfortable range of motion you should be fine. In the Feldenkrais Method it is not important to move to the limit. The most essential is to practice the feeling of ease and pleasure of movement, not strain.

[@meerashah9006]

Thank you