Hip joints foundation class
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 21 ส.ค. 2024
- This is one of my all time favourite lesson revolving around the hip joints. I might just call it "hip joints foundation class". We will explore basic hip movements, and see how these movements connect to the upper body and legs. As an added benefit, if you have painful knees, this class might help your knees to feel better .
Rather than squatting or standing, we will study in a supine position. This way you will have less muscular tension in your hip joints, and thus be able to focus more on what's really going on in your hip joints.
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This session brought about the most dramatic change in my body. Immediately afterwards I was able to stand on one leg easily and solidly and for a over a minute. Yayyyy!! My standing balance has not been this good for a long time. Thank you, Alfons for making positive change via a pleasant class.
Since following your somatic education lessons I've learned so much about my body Alfons. My tight calves and weak hamstrings and glutes are causing my knee pain and I am sure I have plenty to discover about my hips. My knee pain is diminishing each day with flexibility, muscle strengthening exercises and the amazing Feldenkrais method. Thank you Alfons. Please lovely followers become a patron of Alfons on Patreon. He deserves our financial support to continue his lovely lessons ♡!
So good, so generous, so thorough.
Thank you from the bottom of my heart for your brilliant, wonderful and generous lessons! I am so grateful, this is the 2nd of your classes I have done and excited to explore them all, a day at a time. Finding your channel is life changing, I feel very hopeful now about maintaining and even increasing mobility as I age. Love and blessings!
You are really the best teacher in the Feldenkrais method. The many other who are selling since the death of Moshe Feldenkrais only bullshit as Feldenkrais method surely don't like what you are doing. I recommend time and again to my new clients your TH-cam lessons on specific subject in which they are interested, like this lesson. Your work is unvaluable.
Hi Paul you would know !!
Alfonse I found a series I like, but,th-cam.com/video/CdCClhtKH2Q/w-d-xo.html, you know and I feel too much stretching.
Which course of yours would cover this best.
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Thank you so much for your lovely lesson! I will follow you from Brazil! In this horrible moment of local political chaos, a Feldenkrais lesson is a real blessing!
Silvana, I really understand what you’re saying about the relaxation and relief you feel in such a tense situation!
I don’t have political unrest but here in Florida when we have severe hurricanes come through, I lie on my mat on the floor and do Feldenkrais for several hours each day, because it keeps me so calm and helps my soul body and spirit stay at peace ✌️ ☮️🥰
I really appreciate how generous you are with sharing your knowledge and wisdom with us all, Alfons. Thank you! I am new to Feldenkrais and I'm learning so much from your videos. I so enjoy your vitality, enthusiasm and humour, it creates an engaging and inspiring learning experience for your viewers!
you are funny ,intellegent,and you explain how to move very well I feel very fortunate to have found you on you tube .
Thank you, Alfons. Your lessons are helping my 92-year-old mother to keep healthy and happy during these days of blockout. She really needs to keep moving, and she enjoyed this lesson very much. She says it's her favourite one.
You are fantastic your exercises have come to me in India , helping me and many of my exercise group members,we try to practice together and it has been a very very pain relieving
One of my favorite sessions. My hip is the latest Part on the agenda, and this very succinct and fluid class is just the thing Directly after, I "sampled" my walk -throughout the house..Very good result! Then, while rinsing my hands and holding a small glass I was made super aware of my fingers as these superbly crafted elements, seeing them anew, as though observing an animal using its claw or hand - and I was!
I had really applied myself, really combined deep relaxation (not so easy at times-ha), with deep concentration and this intriguing perception I'm certain was born of it. All of a piece, this organic wonder ~
Hello again Alfons! The last few days I was noticing my hips feeling tight and then I happened to find this video… What a difference it has made!
I had to be very careful and use small movements to protect my knees because of a lot of pain due to former dislocation of my knees.
But it seems to have relaxed my knees. It has also greatly reduced the tension and tightness in my lower legs and feet that I tend to carry there. My fibula and tibia tend to bind together rather than moving independently. My Feldenkrais practitioner spent six months working on that, and this one session alone has relieved that tightness in my lower legs.
Several times I could feel and hear little clicking sounds as bones were rearranging in my ankles feet and knees 🦵❣️🦵
Beautiful! Thank you for sharing, Cherylin! What a great insight and experience, a healing moment where more than 6 months of work came together 🍀⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
This made me aware of a VERY tight group of muscles in the upper leg area that I’ll eventually be able to release ... thanks to this lesson. You are a generous teacher, Alfons, to share this healing modality with us!!
I LOVE, LOVE YOU!!!
By far, the most effective way to free the hip joints. Then, the freedom extended to the shoulder joints.
The spine is happy too. 👍🙏😍
Thanks. I have been having such a hard time with my hips, knees and pelvis that my right knee is bent all the time and very painful. This video helped just a little so I'm going to keep at it. It feels good.
I have been struggling with hip and knee pain in one leg. The chiropractor said IT band issues. I got better and better at the movements and my knee feels much better. I will continue with this lesson. Thank you so much.
I hope you're going well Jody. More improvements?
I hope you're going well Jody. More improvements?
@@joulesisgypsy Yes, more improvements. I have taken up Pilates and have gained by it greatly. I think I have discovered thst a big part of my trouble was due to weak glutes. Thank you for asking.
@@jodycourt Well done you! I think I've just made the same discovery. I don't think my glutes thought they had to do anything except pad my rear! I'm so glad you're doing better. I hope to be doing better in a few months too. Keep up the great work for your happy knees ♡
@@joulesisgypsy Thanks! Glad to hear you discovered that the glutes are connected to knees. I still do some of the Feldkrais movements too.
Bless you! Bless you! Bless you! I just stood up from this lesson and I cannot feel the painful arthritis in my right hip. Plus ... my right hip spontaneously began to try the belly dance single hip figure eight that I had to stop years ago because it was too painful. My muscle memory wanted to go there! You are brilliant. You will be hearing this frequently from me now that I am hooked on your lessons. Thank you so much from California. Oh .. and you make me laugh so hard. Thanks for that too!
Best Lesson so far. The improvement movement in hip joints fab. Better balance. Awesome. Thanks
Thank you Alfons 😁🙏🏼 from North America
I m yoga teacher and my classes are a mixer with Feldenkrais and your lessons, Alphons, are priceless for me . Thanks a lot.
+Diva Peressoni Farias, good to know! Thank you for watching and sharing 🍀☀️
Thank you Alfons. I ha not done this lesson for a long time. It was excellent!!
Recently I was told that I have Femoroacetabular impingement (FAI) and A hip labral tear, this lesson help me so much!!!!
I’m benefiting slowly but it is positively positive.
Most rewarding feeling I just got! I never could imagine these movements will make me feel so light ! Alfons you are truly 👍 thanks a lot
Lesson revisited. Well, you are correct, I felt my hips after the previous lesson. Never say never..I returned today...what an amazing difference. No major cramps in the back of my legs, nor in my hips today. Today I could reach and hold onto my feet and I could move more than my last two attempts doing this lesson. I still have mobility issues to work on that is for sure and it is ok with me because I see and feel my potential . Hey, thus is almost fun.
Loving your hip series, doing them all in order. Thanks Alfons each lesson I get relief!
Love the addition of the anatomy info at the beginning of the video! So many people need it especially for the pelvis!
Thanks Erifily, yeah, watchable anatomy is even better than sliced bread ! :-)
Thankyou thankyou Alfons This is my second time around with hips and this time I felt much more vigourous all around and I could do all the exercises as i could roll over my arms again. I am alternating with a repeat of the Introductory course. In this time of total lock down in our village its such a wonderfully positive class to look forward to Really appreciate your generosity. Remember too 50 yrs ago going from Switzerland to never forgotten Vienna through the most beautiful William Tell country , Salzburg and you must be there somewhere? Wunderbar!
Great for my stiff left hip. Sensing better balance and ease with walking. Many Thanks - love the way you teach!
Thank you Alfons.
That was enjoyable. For all your movements at the beginning, I left one leg extended while bringing the other knee up. It gave my weak groin a longer break.
I liked the movements toward the end of the video.👍
Yes, my cat kept climbing back onto me.😻
Interesting strategy, well justified! Might even press the foot of the extended leg down to help bring the knee up.
I totally love this lesson, after I was done, my joints were so smooth.
Gracias, Alfons.✌️
More questions, Alfons, if I may. You give us a lot of leeway on how to do the movements, I was wondering if doing the first few leg and foot circles on the side ( because of the pressure on my throat and chest) is taking things too much in my own hands, or if it is still ok. My body says it is, but you’re the teacher.
Love it when you give challenges: find 3 ways to do this. Now I no longer fear I might be cheating as I explore. It is exciting to relearn my body after so taking it for granted. Thank you.
Hi, the lessons have a structure. They have been carefully crafted by the genius and scientist Dr. Moshé Feldenkrais. It's like a piece of music, say for example "Eine Kleine Nachtmusik" by Wolfgang A. Mozart. It's what it is, and when you want it to sound like it, you need to stick to the notes. That having said, there's also Jazz, and improvisation and the whole world with everything. Please explore and experiment. And then come back to the original lesson. And then divert from it again, make your own thinking, paths, explorations. And then come back to the original again...
To quote Moshé Feldenkrais: "I am going to be your last teacher. Not because I'll be the greatest teacher you may ever encounter, but because from me you will learn how to learn. When you learn how to learn, you will realize that there are no teachers, that there are only people learning and people learning how to facilitate learning." With those words Moshe Feldenkrais began his first North American training in June 1975.
I use my index finger, middle finger, and ring finger to show three (Los Angeles, CA). Great lesson!!
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Try and change that at random, that the Feldenkreis way, correct , ?
Thank you, a real difference from the beginning
I really liked this one and " Improve hip flexion + extension tutorial ". Thank you, Alfons. Like in life, you always get better results with gentle approach...
I have weaker glutes and hip muscles on one side from sacral joint inflammation when I was very young. My one leg is a bit shorter ( functional ) which your exercises helped to lengthen. I was VERY, VERY impressed. Anything else you could offer for people like me ? If nothing else is available, I will continue doing those two. IT IS WORKING !
Yes, gentle it is! Respectful, listening and yet leading to learning, understanding and success
My left hip continues to improve along with my mental clarity...I am also stopping all caffeine, sugar, and flour! These lessons while I am in the process of detox are making life much, much, much more tolerable. Yesterday (day 4 of the process) when I lay down to alleviate my symptoms with an ATM lesson, it felt like every cell in my body was swollen!! My teeth felt swollen:) Afterwards I felt normal again. Thanks Alfons. I wonder if this somatic systems is in great use with addiction recovery?
I am back at it and just decided to treat some fatigue today with a Feldenkrais lesson. As usual the energy is back and and I am ready to get on with my day! And much improved hip mobility. Thanks:)
Feldenkrais, especially how you teach it, reminds me that I don't have to "work hard" enjoy good results. In my body and perhaps in life in general.
Hey Alfons, just stopping to say I’m revisiting the hip series and it was great to do this lesson again
Ahh I love watching your video. It is so very helpful. I love the way you explain at the start where the hip is! It is always great to feel empowered and that's how I feel watching this great video 🙏🙏🙏🙏
During the lesson I became more aware and felt my entire posterior body from top to bottom as the lesson progressed. Also, I have more range in my hip that was totally replaced! Thanks😀
Thanks, Alfons. I really enjoy your classes. Your laugh is so nice! I have fun with you and get my movements better and better.
Wonderful class. I wish everyone could try your classes before having hip or knee replacement surgery. Thank you for these lessons ❤️
me too 😅 please continue to help spread the love by liking, commenting, and sharing ❤️⭐️
Great class as usual thank you Alfons
my hips have been tight and killing me for weeks from single leg training.. now they feel great.. thx a lot
I really enjoy your lessons. Thank you!
Hi! I really enjoied this lesson! I'm am used to Gentle somatic yoga and bio-somatic practice, thogh I found new ways of listening to the body, to loosen it and to find reliefe from pain. Thank you so much for share all this
I am following your videos......... and now my life will be for the better always! Heart felt thanks to you Alfons! I will be buying your book! Happy New Year from England. Joy Greenhalgh
how can something so simple be so profound! i think i am having a Feldenkreis moment.. Supergeschenk!!!
thanks a lot for your videos!!! I love it, and i espesialy like that you are so thorogh and the paste in your videos i perfect! keep it up, it works!!!
Do you still look at these comments?? Ugh I can't thank you enough. I've been running and having a little trouble with my hips; I did the initial "getting better day by day" lessons and this was the perfect next progression. This stuff is part of my daily routine now, Thank you!! PS you mentioned dogs and cats in this lesson, my dog fully participates in all my Feldenkrais lessons by bringing me toys lol.
I do! However, I just spent 10 days in China. They don‘t have the full Internet.... now catching up!
Such a beautiful sentence 'loosing my mind'
A very meaningful video.
Thank you.
Thank you so much Alfons . My hip joints are finally released and feel very good 👍👍😃👍👍 you are the best,
I love the feeling in my hips after lesson, i hope that it will help me with plantar fascinates as well because i think that my 13 years lasting PF connected to some imbalance in all my body. Thank you
Fantastic lesson !
Thanks Alfons
Greetings from Colombia
That is certainly one of the best lessons. I feel so oiled in the hips...really sense a difference. Off for a run! Thanks you.
thank you for the feedback, I'm happy for you :-)
Thank you so much for this class! I really felt great afterwards, and also for the first time I had the experience of feeling my upper leg bone moving in the ball joint. The anatomy at the beginning is also super helpful. Your way of teaching is also lovely. I never had a feldenkrais teacher mention the four principles before: think, move, sense, feel. That was a new one for me. And in my country, South Africa, we hold up the 3 middle fingers to indicate the number 3. :-D
Thank you - nice warm feeling in my hips ankles, maybe even knees
It is, right ?! :-)
Bliss. Lovely to return to this movement. Great work. Thanks for sharing your gifts.
thank you, Alfons! this lesson was also good for a tight hamstring in my right leg.
Fantastic teacher and guide.
most magnificent and generous Alfons.. you should have a warning though: it is addictive !!!
I agree Irmaa! I'm on a dose of one lesson a day at a MINIMUM 🤣
The first thing I felt as I got to standing at the end was heavy, so much weight going down through my legs and into the ground. Feeling grounded! Hip movement very open and easy, floaty. Head floating too, and chest very wide. So expansive, thank you Alfons, this will be favourite. (One small problem though, and that is the use of music while you are speaking: I have poor hearing, and the background music in the first few minutes made it almost impossible to hear you. Just a thought for future videos.)
Thank you Alfons!
felt very good for my tired dancing legs! I never did feldenkrais through video, but it can be good replacement if I get no chance to go to the atm live, thank you! I suscribed
Thank You Alfons! I love your lessons!
I'm slow to get my head around the idea of Feldenkrais movements, but I think I'm coming around...thank you!!
Thank you Morley for making this remark, er, raising this important question. Why is this kind of movements important? What's the significance? What on earth are we doing here? Isn't it enough for a toddler to learn how to stand, move around, and be able to do things? Is it practical or does it have any value to re-examine how we learned to do those basic movements like rolling or getting up? I ask myself these kind of questions every day.
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Just so good!
good lesson and good explanation. Bella lezione e ottima spiegazione. Grazie Alfons Thanks so much
thank you, prego !
That was quite some input for my body. thank you. feels great, clear, confortable. Nice socks btw
Fab. Many thanks
I love all your videos! Thank you!!
Again, forever grateful for sharing you teachings, and for free! Moshe would say you’re doing a mitzvah. I suffer with hip pain. Your class relieves my pain-totally, for one day. It starts again next morning. Should I repeat this class daily or rest for x number of days? Thanks, Dorit
Thank you Dorit for your lovely feedback! I‘m happy for your success.
As for a rehab „training schedule“ (lesson selection, session length, spacing, and repetition) I have no general answer. Also, as a side note, recurring pain in the morning could indicate that something might be going on somewhere else (lower back?). But I‘m not a doctor, therefore I don‘t diagnose, just sharing some ideas for movement.
Educational and a teaching
Great job! Thank you.
Thank you for this! I use it for my classes 🙏🙏
Awesome video! My hips have much less tension!
Du bist der beste! Danke für all deine Videos!
Lovely, thanks
Alfonds I just love you🙏🏾
Excellent!!
Wonderful, joints feel good ~
Thank you so much
Very good and halpfull
Have been sitting travelling was very good
Amazing!
really useful, thank you.
Thanks for sharing
I love this class! My body feels amazing after 😃. Can you do another class on shoulders?
Looooved it nothing hurts
Best lesson ever!!!!
Thank So much i won't forget i have a dept with you.
Great lesson with many sub lessons within it! Expert pacing by the way. Thanks.
thank you. Good to know I'm on the right track with the pacing ! :-)
soooo nice! thank you! greetings from Brazil!
Thanks!
Thanks. 👍
Muchisímas Gracias!
Hi Alfons- --- cool lesson-in so many ways-enjoyed it immensely--thanks.
Thank you ! Yes, there's always a lot inside a lesson - the deeper the understanding, the more we can find :-)
This is very super. It feels great to move like this! Thanks a lot again :-)
I still have a sharp pain in my left side of lower back maybe a littile less pain and my right shoulder , i. have been trying many methods,
I do feel more at ease as in a better body.
very helpful and pleasurable. but in the first part you spend a lot of time conditioning the right side for a much longer time than the left. is the idea just to take the instruction outside of following you and give each knee, foot and hip the same amount of time? it seems logical but i'd rather be following your movements in the video. i'll keep looking at your other videos for more instruction. at any rate i feel great! thx alfons.
My right hip joint feels more stuck after the lesson and knee but the left feels more smooth.
WIsh you were in my neighborhood. Danke!
hehe I too wish more people interested in Feldenkrais would live in my 'hood. Gerne !
( prone= face down) (supine=on your spine)