Please add more of this type of content to your channel. This video is very helpful for those of us who are over 50 and train Brazilian jiu jitsu. I will add this to my mobility routine. I liked your video!
I’ve had right hips ever since I can remember as a kid. I took karate and I was the only one in my class that couldn’t get my knees to touch the floor sitting on the floor. The Sensei forced them down and I was in so much pain. I thought I’m just born with tight hips. I guess I have some work to do but I was never told how to fix my hips. I’ll give this a shot thank you
Arg one should never force a body in a position it doesn't want to go in. To get mobility you need to concentrate on contraction and relief into the position you want to go. For the knees: sit down and either push them down with your hands or lay some weight on them. You wont benefit from a lot of weight just enough to focus. Now lift your knees against the force, hold it a brief moment and slowly let it down until it wont go or feels painfull. Than lift it up again. You want to do this several dozen times like at least 20-30x. Your muscles should feel worked, but stay away from any shaking etc. The first time you might want to try it just with the weight of the legs.
I can't wait to experiment with this floor practice! I have very stiff arthritic hips but try to get down on the floor daily to do some simple yoga. Your exercise will be a good addition to my practice. Thank you! 🌟
Thank you for this video, where you explain so much! I'm living on the floor now for a month and have great results for my hips and knees. However, In many places, such as in the catering industry, the bus, and public spaces, we often find chairs with soft cushions. The opposite is happening now: after sitting on a soft cushion elsewhere, my leg hurts. It proves how you adapt to sitting on the floor!
I have been practicing taiji and qigong for a long time now and I am used to ' searching for the spiral movement' , so to speak. I will add this movement to my daily practice, thank you!
Well now! I have been sitting for too long, and have pain going down to and up from the floor. Clearly I can see how this exercise will help me a lot. I noticed it is used in the animal flow patterns so many people like. But none of them teach the basic like this. Many thanks.
@@TaroIwamoto yes of course! I'm a Contemporary dancer. I do have enough flexibility but not necessary good movement, as you recentely said in your video. I've done that kind of hip transition many times while dancing. However, it's the first time now that I'm able to connect the movement with my brain: I sat on the flour with your video next to me, and I kept doing the hip patron once and over again till I could find something "new" in my hole body/mind experience. Greetings from Argentina!! Lucrecia Trebino. P.S. I apologize if my english is not perfct. I hope I could have expresed my self good enough.
@@lucreciatrebino1611 thank you so much for sharing your experience with us here! Glad to hear it. How you practice movement makes a difference, doesnt it?
This is my exact problem! I have tight hips and weak glutes, and this is causing knee and IT band pain. I will start doing this as well as a few other exercises. Thanks!
This is a great mobility drill. As you rotate from one side to the other down into the cross sit position, it very much puts me in mind of first seeing this movement, strangely, in 'The Crow' movie, as Brandon Lee repeatedly went from standing to cross sit in various scenes. Used to practice it a lot after seeing that, as sensed it was a good mobility drill, but will start doing it again now, following your routing here. A great break down of the movement. Thank you.
I could not sit comfortably cross-legged in kindergarten. Years of karate only marginally improved things. Experiments with yoga occasionally were difficult and only helped somewhat. I am not sure why I am so tightly connected, but I am. Now, the starting position in this set is not something I can do easily. Also, I am old and have lost the coordination to do this simple seeming exercise naturally, but am working on it. It sure looks easy, and probably would have been when I was young. Now, it prove to be tricky. As I said, I am old. Maybe this will make me a bit younger.
You’ re the best! After years of sciatica and back pain,and many, many professional visits, I stumbled upon your video regarding psoas tightness. I had already tried many psoas releasing routines without success, and honestly yours seemed too “easy” and “light” to me. I was wrong: as soon as I tried it it solved my problem, and now I incorporate it twice a week. Two years pain free now. I started training martial arts again and my quality of life improved so much. I decided to take a look at your course, I’ m sure it will be great. Just one question, what are those mattress behind you? I’ d like to purchase something similar for my house. Thanks again, you are a lifesaver!
Thank you! Thank you for sharing your experience, and I'm so glad to hear that you're pain free now! The mats you see in this video are Japanese tatami mats, that were actually made in Japan. If you live in the United States, you can get them. You can use my affiliate link below plus a 10% discount code: Tatami mat (support your floor living and mobility with high quality tatami mat made in Japan): shop.interra-usa.com/TARO10 Discount code: TARO10
I'm 75, arthritis in knees, not severe. I notice my knees are not really liking this. Should I keep doing it til my knees adjust? I like using this movement to get up off floor. It's much easier than what my knees were allowing. Thank you!
I am running a 14 day challenge every month, so next challenge is in April. I havent decided yet but likely posture challenge. All callenges are related to each other as our body functions together as an interconnected whole. Please make sure you get on my email list if you havent already so you will receive info about my upcoming challenges in your inbox.
as long as it doesn't cause more pain/discomfort, yes i think so. when you're spiraling up and down efficiently, you're really turning around your hips, so you won't be twisting your knees.
Hi sensei I have joint problems throughout my body. It's important for me to do movements slowly and in a way that it doesn't hurt my body very much. That's the main problem with some yoga and exercise. So then my question... if you are doing exercises that are supposed to help you but it hurts you to do it, then how helpful will it really be? In pain I clench my jaw, I stop breathing, tighten in general. But I do some yoga poses like pigeon pose to help with sciatica. I do everything I can do, incl Feldenkrais. But doing it a lot without rest actually doesn't seem to help more. Wondering what integration really really means. I'm ok with discomfort but am tired of pain to get rid of pain. It makes me depressed and hopeless. Seems counter to what you propose.. which is to help nervous system calm down with mindful micro movements. Thank you for listening 🙏🏼 多謝🙏🏼
Hi kayoko-san. Observing our body and mind from a perspective of the nervous system is very helpful as our body and mind are one interconnected system. Anything that makes your nervous system disrupted will have negative effects on your body and mind (pain, anxiety, tension, etc). So ensuring your environment as comfortable and safe as possible would be very important to regulate your nervous system. How you connet with your body, and how you practice movement would be very important for that purpose. So your body and mind and environment will all be integrated. Then, all your body parts, your breath, posture will begin to integrate together. Not just what movement you do is important, in fact, how you connect with your body, bring your awareness into your body, and how you observe and sense your body in the moment without judgement are even more important for regulating your nervous system. Once your nervous system becomes more regulated, then, your experience in your body will really start to shift, and you'll start to shift how you move.
@@TaroIwamoto Thank you for the deep dive reply. I understand better. I will not force movements that further create tension in the name of "beneficial exercise". 🙏🏼
i can't say "always" but many have told me that focusing on retraining movement patterns and movement quality helped them improve their hip flexibility, and it improved their ability to sit in lotus position better.
you can actually follow your hand with your eyes and head while doing these movements, which would be great for eye hand coordination, and you can improve these movements.
What having hypaplastic t12 ribs (short ribs) possibly be thr reason for my lifelong hip problems? For example I could never cross my legs even as a little kid.
I would like to know why you don’t have any exercise for the legs and feet like for peripheral neuropathy or restless legs syndrome for me that’s the key I am having both condition and I haven’t found out yet what or who can help me with this
a lot of my videos can actually help with people with peripheral neuropathy as well as restless leg syndrome as my practice focuses on retraining the nervous system through movement retraining.
@@TaroIwamoto Can you show me some of them in the bad condition I am right now I could no distinguish which are the one you’re saying sorry and thank you
I have a problem with my hand. From the wrist to the fingertips, every joint is painful. And I can't put my hands on the ground, it's painful. I can get off the ground if I put my elbows on. I have arthritis resulting from long term Lyme disease. Are there any suggestions here?
can you use your fists instead of placing your palm to reduce stress to your wrists? you can also make it easier by practicing these movements sitting on the edge of a bed.
Unfortunately from the very first memory I have as a smallchild, sitting like that is terribly difficult and uncomfortable for me. My knees would stick up so high. I am 62 now and I don't think I have tried to sit like that since I was 20 something.
no worries. this video is not about teaching people how to sit crossed leg. this video is about teaching people how to improve how they move through their hips more efficiently functionally so they can move through their life more comfortably:)
@@TaroIwamoto I just don't know how to do this exercise if I can't sit cross legged. I'll watch it again to see if I can figure it out. I have started sitting on the floor daily now. Thanks doctor.
hip mobility is your ability to move through your hips, so you and anyone else can learn to move more efficiently through your hips so you can improve your hip mobility and movement quality and comfort!
I m opening the hips to do lotus pose, I can get them pretty open after some warm up and loosesing so that I can do easily half lotus and almost lotus pose, problem is, if I do, next morning I'm extremely sore and for a few days I have great pain just sitting cross legged, and again I need some minutes sitting cross legged before the soreness goes away. It is as if I can get really flexible after stretching but it doesn t last and after a few hours I m worse than before. Any advice on how to make lasting changes so that these positions feels natural without warm up and stretching?
"tightening" of those muscles may be a reaction of your nervous system and body to the stress you're placing on your hips and lower back as a protective mechanism. sometimes people over-emphasize their flexibility, and create more flexibility than they can control, therefore, end up destabilizing their lower back. as a result, their nervous system perceives it as a threat and responds by tightening the muscles to miminize movements. This is one of the reasons why I emphaize improving movement patterns, quality of movement in a functional way so you can move more comfortably and easily without effort.
At the moment when i sit on floor my hip flexors wont allow my knees anywhere near the floor or to sit cross-legged, they are more like 45°anglebto the floor. What can help this
if that's uncomfortable, first you can sit on a cushion or two, then you can place folded blanket or cushion under the outside of each knee to support.
it'd be a good idea to check with their doctor first for their safety. my guess is that many people will flex through their thoracic spine during these movements, which can definitely add more compression to the spine so not ideal for people with T-spine compression fracture. however, it'd be really beneficial for them to become aware of their habitual movement patterns and learn to reduce compressive force to their spine during functional movements to allow the spine to heal and to keep it safe.
I am not sure where you heard that this 14 day challenge being free, maybe thinking about my 10 day hip mobility series that I put together for free on my YT channel previously. That is completely free that you can find in my playlists.
I’m 77 and my health practitioner has told me my hips are in good shape for my age but somehow I struggle getting up off the floor. I practiced this for 3 minutes and can now get up off the floor very well. Also my hips feel different. Can’t explain but definitely something has changed. I will keep it up. When I was younger I used to sit on the floor a lot with the kids.
@@Pattio47 you can become friends with the floor again and start to explore lots of movements like kids do and regain your mobility and rediscover the joy of movement:)
Hi there. I deleted my comment. It was disrespectful. You have a totally different approach to me on the subject. That does not mean what you teach is wrong. For me, after 40 years working with the finest dancers in the world, sometimes on the biggest shows in the world, I guess I’m a bit of a know-it-all. Only, of course, I don’t. Apologies to you, sir. ☺️ Sorry. ☺️
No apology is necessary, really. But I appreciate it. You and anyone else are free to express your opinions, and we are all free to take others opinions in any way they want. It's totally normal for us to agree or disagree on others, that doesn't mean we are being disrespectful of each other :) Thank you so much for taking the time to write your comments.
although i suggest people incorporate floor sitting, i understand not everyone can. but that doesnt mean you cannot improve your hip mobility. you can retrain your movement patterns from sitting or standing or lying down position.
Don’t have to be rude! The person is sharing his knowledge with us. Have some respect. Ask a question if you don’t understand. And by the way, it looks like everybody understands except you. Does it say something to you?
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Hi! My profession requires me to sit on the ground for an hour or more…. I can hardly take a step after that . Any advice?
@@jayanthisridharan7502 what type of activities while sitting on the ground does your job require?
Missed this.
Ridiculous how just sitting on the floor in the morning for a couple of days has improved my well-being, thank you
Please add more of this type of content to your channel. This video is very helpful for those of us who are over 50 and train Brazilian jiu jitsu. I will add this to my mobility routine. I liked your video!
Glad you liked it!
I’ve had right hips ever since I can remember as a kid. I took karate and I was the only one in my class that couldn’t get my knees to touch the floor sitting on the floor. The Sensei forced them down and I was in so much pain. I thought I’m just born with tight hips. I guess I have some work to do but I was never told how to fix my hips. I’ll give this a shot thank you
I hear ya, used to get in shit for not being able to cross my legs in school lol
Me too
Watch out for hip dysplasia...maybe that is the reason for your tightness
Arg one should never force a body in a position it doesn't want to go in.
To get mobility you need to concentrate on contraction and relief into the position you want to go.
For the knees: sit down and either push them down with your hands or lay some weight on them. You wont benefit from a lot of weight just enough to focus. Now lift your knees against the force, hold it a brief moment and slowly let it down until it wont go or feels painfull. Than lift it up again.
You want to do this several dozen times like at least 20-30x. Your muscles should feel worked, but stay away from any shaking etc.
The first time you might want to try it just with the weight of the legs.
I'd recommend watching this on double speed, you will thank me
I like it just the way it is, thank you.
No, half speed. Learn patience
@@kevinbrowndc tell that to your boss
@@Donald666 as a chiropractor I practice sooooo much patience. People in pain, whew 😅.
@@Donald666
You don't get it man.
100%
A great tutorial! It’s difficult to find someone who fully explains the coordination movements. Thank you Taro👍
I can't wait to experiment with this floor practice! I have very stiff arthritic hips but try to get down on the floor daily to do some simple yoga. Your exercise will be a good addition to my practice. Thank you! 🌟
my pleasure! Enjoy!
Good stuff! Excellent morning warm up. I feel my hips and legs activate!
Thank you for this video, where you explain so much! I'm living on the floor now for a month and have great results for my hips and knees. However, In many places, such as in the catering industry, the bus, and public spaces, we often find chairs with soft cushions. The opposite is happening now: after sitting on a soft cushion elsewhere, my leg hurts. It proves how you adapt to sitting on the floor!
But, of course, you are right about concentrating on one's movements--you say by closing your eyes. Good to hear you say that.
I have been practicing taiji and qigong for a long time now and I am used to ' searching for the spiral movement' , so to speak. I will add this movement to my daily practice, thank you!
you're welcome:)
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Well now!
I have been sitting for too long, and have pain going down to and up from the floor. Clearly I can see how this exercise will help me a lot. I noticed it is used in the animal flow patterns so many people like. But none of them teach the basic like this. Many thanks.
my pleasure!
I've been doing your proposal, I've experienced mind awarness
can you tell me more about your experience?
@@TaroIwamoto yes of course! I'm a Contemporary dancer. I do have enough flexibility but not necessary good movement, as you recentely said in your video. I've done that kind of hip transition many times while dancing. However, it's the first time now that I'm able to connect the movement with my brain: I sat on the flour with your video next to me, and I kept doing the hip patron once and over again till I could find something "new" in my hole body/mind experience. Greetings from Argentina!! Lucrecia Trebino.
P.S. I apologize if my english is not perfct. I hope I could have expresed my self good enough.
@@lucreciatrebino1611 thank you so much for sharing your experience with us here! Glad to hear it. How you practice movement makes a difference, doesnt it?
@@TaroIwamoto completely agree!!
@@lucreciatrebino1611 :)
Interesting
I’ve already introduced yoga movement in my life, everyday. Time to try this as improving the movement mobility 🥰 Thank U!
Thank you. I will add this to my mobility practice
Wow! That was really good! It really helped me! Thanks! 🙂
@@transcendere Great! just fyi, I am starting my 14 Day Hip Mobility Challenge again on July 29!
This is my exact problem! I have tight hips and weak glutes, and this is causing knee and IT band pain. I will start doing this as well as a few other exercises. Thanks!
Taro, your videos are always so excellent, informative and encouraging. Thank you!
Thank you
This is what needed
Great instructions. Thank you for sharing.
my pleasure!
This is a great mobility drill. As you rotate from one side to the other down into the cross sit position, it very much puts me in mind of first seeing this movement, strangely, in 'The Crow' movie, as Brandon Lee repeatedly went from standing to cross sit in various scenes. Used to practice it a lot after seeing that, as sensed it was a good mobility drill, but will start doing it again now, following your routing here. A great break down of the movement. Thank you.
my pleasure!
Thank you, Taro
you're welcome:)
Wow’ I needed this so bad! I have a knee placement that has caused my gait to changed, therefore causing back problems. Thank you!
my pleasure!
My breathing became deeper after. Slowing down the movement was helpful to really do it with ease and awareness
that's great! thank you for sharing your experience:)
Good reminder.
Nice! I started doing this exercise. Surprised myself! 🙂
Great information a very necessary.. thank you
A great and different advice! Thank you. Really appreciate that.
you're welcome:)
Thanks! Greetings from Munich, Germany.
So simple, so excellent! Thank you! 😊👍🏻
my pleasure!
You lost me at having to change anything about what I do😂😂
Great vid 👍
Thank you. Liked, subscribed, shared.
Thank you!
Thank you.Feel better with these movements🙏
my pleasure. Glad to hear it!
Excellent Taro. Thanks
you're welcome!
Absolutely love your contet. It's such important work you do. Thank you so much! 🙏
Thank you!
Das ist eine coole Übung😃 Man muss nur schauen, dass der richtige Fuß vorn ist, sonst entsteht ein Knoten 😉
Wow, awesome stuff. Thanks Taro!
you are welcome!
Wonderful. Thank you!
you're welcome:)
Wow! This makes getting up off the floor so easy.
Great!
Nice job!
I could not sit comfortably cross-legged in kindergarten. Years of karate only marginally improved things. Experiments with yoga occasionally were difficult and only helped somewhat. I am not sure why I am so tightly connected, but I am.
Now, the starting position in this set is not something I can do easily.
Also, I am old and have lost the coordination to do this simple seeming exercise naturally, but am working on it. It sure looks easy, and probably would have been when I was young. Now, it prove to be tricky. As I said, I am old. Maybe this will make me a bit younger.
Exselent ! Ready for Mobility Chalenge !!!
would you like to join my 14 day hip mobility challenge? today (3/26 Tuesday) is still day 2. you can still join and catch up!
Great advice 👍👍❤️
:)
Thank youuuu
my pleasure!
You’ re the best! After years of sciatica and back pain,and many, many professional visits, I stumbled upon your video regarding psoas tightness. I had already tried many psoas releasing routines without success, and honestly yours seemed too “easy” and “light” to me. I was wrong: as soon as I tried it it solved my problem, and now I incorporate it twice a week. Two years pain free now. I started training martial arts again and my quality of life improved so much. I decided to take a look at your course, I’ m sure it will be great. Just one question, what are those mattress behind you? I’ d like to purchase something similar for my house. Thanks again, you are a lifesaver!
Thank you! Thank you for sharing your experience, and I'm so glad to hear that you're pain free now! The mats you see in this video are Japanese tatami mats, that were actually made in Japan. If you live in the United States, you can get them. You can use my affiliate link below plus a 10% discount code:
Tatami mat (support your floor living and mobility with high quality tatami mat made in Japan): shop.interra-usa.com/TARO10
Discount code: TARO10
@@TaroIwamoto Thanks to you!!!! Your job is amazing!!!
Thank you 🙌
you're welcome:)
Taro thank you for making it so simple with some effort of course
Would you think about making a video on Primal squatting
Where are you based?
my pleasure! i actually have made a few videos on primal squat a few years ago:) i am near Seattle, WA.
After 3 minutes, I feel my back lighter
Thankyou , your right , and i am on the floor . My hipps are tight and my knees .
you are welcme!
I'm 75, arthritis in knees, not severe. I notice my knees are not really liking this. Should I keep doing it til my knees adjust? I like using this movement to get up off floor. It's much easier than what my knees were allowing. Thank you!
Fantastic! I just discovered you - too late for the March class, I guess, but when is the next class?
I am running a 14 day challenge every month, so next challenge is in April. I havent decided yet but likely posture challenge. All callenges are related to each other as our body functions together as an interconnected whole. Please make sure you get on my email list if you havent already so you will receive info about my upcoming challenges in your inbox.
Thank you
my pleasure!
Big thank you
Do you know if its ok to do it even with a fissured meniscus ? Thank you 🙏
as long as it doesn't cause more pain/discomfort, yes i think so. when you're spiraling up and down efficiently, you're really turning around your hips, so you won't be twisting your knees.
Excellent. 🙏
Hi sensei I have joint problems throughout my body. It's important for me to do movements slowly and in a way that it doesn't hurt my body very much. That's the main problem with some yoga and exercise. So then my question... if you are doing exercises that are supposed to help you but it hurts you to do it, then how helpful will it really be? In pain I clench my jaw, I stop breathing, tighten in general. But I do some yoga poses like pigeon pose to help with sciatica. I do everything I can do, incl
Feldenkrais. But doing it a lot without rest actually doesn't seem to help more. Wondering what integration really really means. I'm ok with discomfort but am tired of pain to get rid of pain. It makes me depressed and hopeless. Seems counter to what you propose.. which is to help nervous system calm down with mindful micro movements. Thank you for listening 🙏🏼 多謝🙏🏼
Hi kayoko-san. Observing our body and mind from a perspective of the nervous system is very helpful as our body and mind are one interconnected system. Anything that makes your nervous system disrupted will have negative effects on your body and mind (pain, anxiety, tension, etc). So ensuring your environment as comfortable and safe as possible would be very important to regulate your nervous system. How you connet with your body, and how you practice movement would be very important for that purpose. So your body and mind and environment will all be integrated. Then, all your body parts, your breath, posture will begin to integrate together. Not just what movement you do is important, in fact, how you connect with your body, bring your awareness into your body, and how you observe and sense your body in the moment without judgement are even more important for regulating your nervous system. Once your nervous system becomes more regulated, then, your experience in your body will really start to shift, and you'll start to shift how you move.
@@TaroIwamoto Thank you for the deep dive reply. I understand better. I will not force movements that further create tension in the name of "beneficial exercise". 🙏🏼
@@omorikayoko my pleasure :)
Thank you. Will this alway help with flexibility (lotus position?)
i can't say "always" but many have told me that focusing on retraining movement patterns and movement quality helped them improve their hip flexibility, and it improved their ability to sit in lotus position better.
Anything for the knees? Thanks
Ohni love this. I feel immediately more space around my hips
wonderful!
Thanks, brilliant❤️
you're welcome:)
Please teach us something to improve eye hand coordination .
you can actually follow your hand with your eyes and head while doing these movements, which would be great for eye hand coordination, and you can improve these movements.
@@TaroIwamoto thanku so much !! ✨✨ ur practices are amazing and refreshing 😇✨
@@namratasinghchauhan2211 thank you!!
Love this for
It’s like capoeira in slo mo 🙂
There is a knee torsion ? We have to warm up first ?
you can start practicing these movements from a chair or side of bed first, then progress to the floor.
@@TaroIwamoto , arigatoo. I start , I want to sit like you.
What having hypaplastic t12 ribs (short ribs) possibly be thr reason for my lifelong hip problems? For example I could never cross my legs even as a little kid.
I would like to know why you don’t have any exercise for the legs and feet like for peripheral neuropathy or restless legs syndrome for me that’s the key I am having both condition and I haven’t found out yet what or who can help me with this
a lot of my videos can actually help with people with peripheral neuropathy as well as restless leg syndrome as my practice focuses on retraining the nervous system through movement retraining.
@@TaroIwamoto Can you show me some of them in the bad condition I am right now I could no distinguish which are the one you’re saying sorry and thank you
Sooo s Hood tank you ❤️
you're welcome:)
The first position, sitting cross legged is even difficult for me, ugh
Is it okay to to this with mild throchanteric hip bursitis?
you can give it a try and see how your hip feels. if it's too hard for your hip, then you can practice this from a chair or bed.
I have a problem with my hand. From the wrist to the fingertips, every joint is painful. And I can't put my hands on the ground, it's painful. I can get off the ground if I put my elbows on. I have arthritis resulting from long term Lyme disease. Are there any suggestions here?
can you use your fists instead of placing your palm to reduce stress to your wrists? you can also make it easier by practicing these movements sitting on the edge of a bed.
Unfortunately from the very first memory I have as a smallchild, sitting like that is terribly difficult and uncomfortable for me. My knees would stick up so high. I am 62 now and I don't think I have tried to sit like that since I was 20 something.
no worries. this video is not about teaching people how to sit crossed leg. this video is about teaching people how to improve how they move through their hips more efficiently functionally so they can move through their life more comfortably:)
@@TaroIwamoto I just don't know how to do this exercise if I can't sit cross legged. I'll watch it again to see if I can figure it out. I have started sitting on the floor daily now. Thanks doctor.
I have NEVER been able to sit like that. My body just doesn’t do it.
hip mobility is your ability to move through your hips, so you and anyone else can learn to move more efficiently through your hips so you can improve your hip mobility and movement quality and comfort!
Just get to the point an move !!
for people like you, here is a short version only 1 minute: th-cam.com/users/shortsEX9VKOr23X8?feature=share
I have had tight hips since I was in primary school. ?
Same here I could never sit criss cross applesauce !
Same
So, like this tight-hipped 65 year old, a good reason to try this.
that doesnt mean you cannot improve:)
Me too
I m opening the hips to do lotus pose, I can get them pretty open after some warm up and loosesing so that I can do easily half lotus and almost lotus pose, problem is, if I do, next morning I'm extremely sore and for a few days I have great pain just sitting cross legged, and again I need some minutes sitting cross legged before the soreness goes away. It is as if I can get really flexible after stretching but it doesn t last and after a few hours I m worse than before. Any advice on how to make lasting changes so that these positions feels natural without warm up and stretching?
"tightening" of those muscles may be a reaction of your nervous system and body to the stress you're placing on your hips and lower back as a protective mechanism. sometimes people over-emphasize their flexibility, and create more flexibility than they can control, therefore, end up destabilizing their lower back. as a result, their nervous system perceives it as a threat and responds by tightening the muscles to miminize movements. This is one of the reasons why I emphaize improving movement patterns, quality of movement in a functional way so you can move more comfortably and easily without effort.
At the moment when i sit on floor my hip flexors wont allow my knees anywhere near the floor or to sit cross-legged, they are more like 45°anglebto the floor.
What can help this
if that's uncomfortable, first you can sit on a cushion or two, then you can place folded blanket or cushion under the outside of each knee to support.
Just like how a baby moves 👍😃
exactly!
Can this be done by a person with T9 compression fracture
it'd be a good idea to check with their doctor first for their safety. my guess is that many people will flex through their thoracic spine during these movements, which can definitely add more compression to the spine so not ideal for people with T-spine compression fracture. however, it'd be really beneficial for them to become aware of their habitual movement patterns and learn to reduce compressive force to their spine during functional movements to allow the spine to heal and to keep it safe.
Help! I can't find the 14-day challenge he talks about!
It has already ended. Sorry.. But I will start my next 14 day posture challenge soon. I will re run the hip mobility challenge in 3 months.
I've tried, okay except it hurts my right knee which I have a problem with
My whole body is so screwed up. This stuff has helped, but my left back ribs keep slipping and then bam, it all comes back :(
i recommend my hip mobility series
@@TaroIwamoto will try :)
Man kann sich aich im Kreis drehen... 😃👏👏👏
Can't sit cross legged on floor! Zero chance. Just can't do it.😢
Ece
You forgot, out of bed, you go to sit on the toilet 😂
🙏💞
5 мин начало упражнений
I heard “free” challenge but it starts at $99 and goes up. Otherwise I liked the content
I am not sure where you heard that this 14 day challenge being free, maybe thinking about my 10 day hip mobility series that I put together for free on my YT channel previously. That is completely free that you can find in my playlists.
@@TaroIwamotothank you for clarifying, I am sure that is what happened 🙏🏻
@@lollybower4526 my pleasure:)
I’m 77 and my health practitioner has told me my hips are in good shape for my age but somehow I struggle getting up off the floor. I practiced this for 3 minutes and can now get up off the floor very well. Also my hips feel different. Can’t explain but definitely something has changed. I will keep it up. When I was younger I used to sit on the floor a lot with the kids.
@@Pattio47 you can become friends with the floor again and start to explore lots of movements like kids do and regain your mobility and rediscover the joy of movement:)
Hi there.
I deleted my comment. It was disrespectful.
You have a totally different approach to me on the subject. That does not mean what you teach is wrong.
For me, after 40 years working with the finest dancers in the world, sometimes on the biggest shows in the world, I guess I’m a bit of a know-it-all. Only, of course, I don’t.
Apologies to you, sir. ☺️
Sorry. ☺️
No apology is necessary, really. But I appreciate it. You and anyone else are free to express your opinions, and we are all free to take others opinions in any way they want. It's totally normal for us to agree or disagree on others, that doesn't mean we are being disrespectful of each other :) Thank you so much for taking the time to write your comments.
What a joke! I cannot even sit in your starting position! No help for me!
Not your fault, of course.
So, of course, I shall have to modify it . 😮
although i suggest people incorporate floor sitting, i understand not everyone can. but that doesnt mean you cannot improve your hip mobility. you can retrain your movement patterns from sitting or standing or lying down position.
Please forgive my hasty answer. I respect your knowledge.
@@MarkJLovas there's always a way to modify, and by modifying, you won't lose the benefits.
Sir what are you saying? Please take some training in teaching. You are crap at teaching but good in talking
I apologize that my explanation in the video is not clear to you. What part should I clarify?
Don’t have to be rude!
The person is sharing his knowledge with us. Have some respect. Ask a question if you don’t understand. And by the way, it looks like everybody understands except you. Does it say something to you?
Cut the unnecessary talking and get on with it
Thank you
you're welcome:)