I’m a psychiatric nurse in the US. I took some time off this year because I was ill with fatigue, falls, and seizures. I got diagnosed with Functional Neurological Disorder related to trauma in my work and my past. I’ve been doing EMDR and the majority of my symptoms resolved, but I was still having “kickbacks” where one or two symptoms would come back when activated. It would be for an hour at a time, and I would be at work running a fever, blood pressure high, so it was very uncomfortable. I came across Feldenkrais while reading up on somatic therapies, looking for something to help, and then came to your videos. I can say this as someone who leads groups in my workplace, you are a) an excellent teacher. I can follow your videos and they make me smile b) your series is practical for a busy life and I can pick it up whenever. As to my symptoms, they’ve mostly resolved and I’ve seen my episodes reduce in the two weeks since I started following your videos. Last week I was able to cry through a panic attack instead of maintaining a fever, and got through it faster (baby steps, panic attacks are actually an improvement if you can imagine lol). Not to mention I just have a better “feeling” of my body all around. The lessons make me feel giddy and aware. I look forward to having “me time” every other day or so and rolling around on the floor :) I just want to thank you for this video series and for helping me over an ocean. I’m truly getting better “day by day” 😁 Sam in the Midwest
I'm working my way through this series for the 2nd time now. The first time I did this lesson, I wasn't able to get much out of it, but after doing this again last night, my lower back feels so free. I can feel my abdominal muscles and how they are supposed to help support my body and how the support frees my chest and upper body. I've completely lost touch with my body from years and years of sedentary work, body shame, and chronic pain. These lessons are helping me learn to feel comfortable existing in my body again. Thank you so much Alfons for putting these lessons together and sharing them. I've never felt such joy in my body before.
I am doing your lessons daily and they are making such a difference to my painful body. I am full of gratitude for your time and sharing. Thank you Alfons.
I ended this lesson laughing with you... I can imagine myself falling asleep during Feldenkrais classes... something else to look forward to! Thanks again for another informative and transformative lesson. You really share YOU. I love this about your lessons. See you (kind of) in the next one!
Thank you so much for these free videos. I suffer a lot from back pain and neck pain because of desk work. I practice zen retreat. Your method seems very similar in the awareness of body connection and movement. After this video when I stand up again, I feel so free and so light. It's wonderful.
My body felt like it was rocking on my hips at the end when standing - like the hip joints and vertebrae were so relaxed they didn't need to be tense to hold me upright. Very nice feeling - the Feldenkrais float. Thank you. I also notice a stiffness in my lower and upper spine the morning after some of these lessons. It may be nothing to do with the lessons, but I suspect that the more I do Feldenkrais, the more my body releases old tensions as it re-adjusts to new ways of moving, and tensions that I would previously deal with through stretching, yoga or more more vigorous movements that I do each day. I may be wrong, but either way, I find it interesting.
Thank you Alfons. I just came accross this class and it is very interesting. Felderkrais Method is here to put us in harmony. I am going to attend regularly. Thanks once again. Freny from Mumbai, India
Alfons, Mary here. :) -You are hilarious & I totally felt like falling asleep myself at the end of that! When touching right elbow earlier on toward the right knee, I could feel a tightness & what felt like a trigger point on the point of right shoulder. It went away a bit afterward & I could feel that muscle weakness. But when I was done, I felt like I should win the award for "fastest rolling yo-yo", as when I stood up, I felt like I was more stacked but yet flexible-stacked. haha! Have a spectacular day-I know I will! :)
"Don't make a chiropratic adjustment." 😂 Ich bin dir sehr dankbar sowohl für das Lachen wie auch für deine hilfreiche Arbeit. Liebe Grüße aus Nürnberg, Tímea
I am feeling the results of these movement in enhanced relaxation and flexibility, and in soreness of muscles used. For example, I never knew how heavy my head was until I tried to lift it with one hand. Thank you, Alfons.
What an inspiration I find in you... Your passion for movement, life, harmonizing the body structure... Your Joy on sharing 💖... Your simplicity, sincerity and sense of humour 🙃🙃😊🙏🏾 THANK YOU FOR BEING in this moment in this planet 😘
Your videos are introducing me to Feldenkrais and I'm really grateful. You have a talent for instruction. I spend a lot of time on YT following tutorials and it's not typical for it to be such an enjoyable experience. Thanks for all the hard work you put into this! Skyler in Arizona
I love that I feel so calm afterwards and at peace in my body. Thank you for making this available to people who may never be able to do this otherwise. You are making the world a better place.
Maybe you could include the word Feldenkrais in your lesson titles. When I search Feldenkrais your lessons don’t pull up first or second but show up very far down. A shame because they are EXCELLENT!
Unfortunately that’s true, some kind of shadow-banning … I updated the titles of this series as you suggested, but I‘m not sure if this will convince the algorithm… please like, share and comment, this might help more! 🙏❤️
Exactly! 👍👍 And we say this through movement, harmoniously, non-threatening, thus after the lesson we stand upright with more ease... and more knowledge, more experience, more options to choose from. Thank you for your insightful comments!
3rd day really is making that neck intercostal connection. Now that knee bend exercise where your eyes and chest move upwards as you rise become a lot clearer. The chest opening is really profound, and how it integrates with the neck and hips. Great stuff as usual. Kevin in Maine
Thanks for all your lessons. Although I have practiced Feldenkrais on and off for a number of years, I am using lockdown to intensify my practice. So, having a long sequence of classic movements is wonderful. There are no Feldenkrais instructors on my Salish Sea island of 1500 residents.
Hi Alfons, thank you so much for your videos. As a classical pianist I can tell Feldenkrais has helped me to improve movements and flexibility a lot. I do go to classes but I practice with you at home or wherever I am :) I so appreciate your sense of humor and clarity. Greetings from NY! Laura
Dear One, today I was like 10 seconds in advance for every little break! sometimes it felt just funny! And the effect as lovely as always! Thank you for spending a Saturday evening taking care of you and taking care of others! Much Love and Appreciation always 🌹
Very enjoyable & I feel less inflammation in my knees today, as a chronic virus outbreak seems to be on its retreat now & discomfort in my glands/back fascia reducing, so these sessions are therapeutic during this process, I believe. What one believes, motivates 😁
1000 Dank Alfons!!! Deine Videos sind ein so großes Geschenk! Ich wünsche dir alles Gute der Welt und viel Motivation um damit weiter zu machen, du hilfst mir und vielen anderen Menschen sehr!! Thank you so much!! :)
Thank you Alfons, It is life-changing.. so simple and deeply profound. I am learning so much about my body... no words can easily capture the discoveries and my gratitude. I feel inches taller!
I like this new introductory series; well thought out and well presented. I have your book, but the visuals are a huge help. Thanks for all the time you are devoting to this!
This was awesome..you are so funny..I have great laughs. My body has never felt better. The past couple of days I have been doing some heavy garden work..I woke up much to my surprise with NO back pain..I attribute this to Feldenkrais. I have been doing the core work, and many of the other classes with you. Going to go through ask of these classes. I am thrilled...out here in beautiful Austin Texas. I went through Austria as a teenager/musician on the road..It is so beautiful. Through the Brenner Pass in the height of winter with no heat in an old Volkswagen bus. Thank you so so so much.
Thank you for these. My wife and I have been doing one of your lessons together every day and it's usually the highlight of my day. Hello from Nashville.
2nd day did the 2nd lesson in morning felt so good that I am doing this lesdon in the evening. I do feel much better after every session, when I start my shoulders are burning with pain but at the end I feel so relaxed that I don't want to get up. Thank u so much
Hi Alfons! Just a quick note to say thank you so much for all the work you put into sharing these teachings. I've always been curious about Feldenkrais and after hearing you on a podcast recently I immediately came to your channel and tried it out for the first time. Have now been incorporating your videos into my daily movement practice and I can already feel huge shifts in happening in my body awareness. I come from a place of efforting so much whether it's yoga, work or just going about my daily life and this has soothed my nervous system like nothing else in addition to reminding myself it's ok to take time, be intentional and feel GOOD when we're using our bodies to do something.. i could go on, but I'll end my little positive rant here! Look forward to continuing my exploration of this method.
Thank you Alfons for another excellent video. I am living with scoliosis and often have huge variations (right side much higher than left)to the muscles of either side of my spine. I have been finding that the difference is diminishing as I have been working through the Feldenkrais movements - i just feel so much straighter. So, a BIG thumbs up from me.
Many discoveries with this lesson... hard to feel the vertebrae in my neck.. like one "block" and I was astonished when you said to rest your neck on the floor.. my neck is pretty far from the floor, probably from years of jutting the head forward, and also rounding the chest. I'm very interested to see if/how this changes as we move along. Thank you for your wonderful humor, all the effort of this, and how spontaeous you are with language.. exploring there, too, as words emerge from your mouth and you "taste" them and explore whether there are other ways to say what you are wanting to say. I've been on the Buddhist path for over a decade and this is so compatible, and also such a help for being in the body!! Much gratitude, Susan
Feeling wonderful ! Like after deep meditation. I found this video when seeking for Anit Baniel method about which I've read in the article about the harm of long sitting. But now I am your fan :). Thank you. I am from Lithuania.
Hi Alphons! I am moving through this series with a friend who lives an hour from me in Connecticut. We have fun discussing and comparing notes afterwards. We are appreciating your humor and all that we are learning. Thank you for making all this available.
Today I repeated this lesson. It was very interesting to see how much more I was aware of today. And, you are so pleasant to be with, so it was refreshing and I might even do it again tomorrow before going on to the next lesson. I think I begin to understand what you mean when you say "becoming more organized." Thanks!
Hi Alfonso i want thank you very much for these videos.Practise for a month and I achieve very big benefits from this method, but I have a question if you have experiense with people with hight blood pressure tell me more about these causes.Thanks again and I will waiting for your next videos.
Dear Nikolay, thank you so much for watching my videos! 😇☺️ High blood pressure is not my expertise, but I would recommend to look into the work and videos of Dr. Michael Greger nutritionfacts.org/video/how-not-to-die-from-high-blood-pressure/
Hello from Turkey....I loved your videos and i want to say thank you, i feel much better now, ı appreciate... Is it ok if i do more than one lesson a day??
Hi, thank you :) Yes do as many as you feel comfortable with... just consider the story my accounting professor told us: “you shouldn’t skip meals all week and then eat 7 meals on Sunday” 😅
Thanks again Alfons, really enjoying these lessons. Today I noticed some shuddering/shaking in my shoulder at the end of the session when lifting my head. I don't feel like I was straining, but maybe this says something about how tense I might be outside of the lessons? Any thoughts?
I experienced this shaking after the second lesson! Normally that's a very good sign, as your body releases tension. There's a trauma therapy called TRE - they work with this shaking to release trauma from the body.
yes ! :-) Originally I wanted to match the Goldberg variations title numbers to my video titles day numbers ... but then I got all picky and went with the one I like best first
Hi there & greetins from Canada! :) I just found your channel this evening...it’s pure awesome! *Do you have therapies for the thoracic spine? I am getting spinal decompression for C 5/6 & 6/7 (DDD) and after this traction treatment, my chiropractor tries to loosen my mid-back (with manipulation) but to n avail. I am very tight and very, very sore. I also have degenerated discs in my lumbar (3 discs) but not receiving treatment for the lower right now. Just the neck...I have a numb left arm b/c of the neck discs but it has somewhat improved after 18 treatments with the DRX 9000 traction machine. *My concern right now, is my left shoulder and scapular area is burning with pain and that mid-back seems to not ‘crack’ or loosen. He says the muscles in the mid-back are so tight. I am a 51 year old female and just want to be ‘soft’ again. Your channel, I so hope, will help with that! :) ps...I’m pretty flexible, but ironically, my back is ‘hard as a rock’. TY so much! I so hope you find this message!
Hi, thank you for sharing your story, or better, "inventory". Most of us seem to have a nice little list 😉 question is: how can we make ourselves more comfortable and live a "normal" life? Please work through the "Getting better day by day" videos first, but instead of using your right arm for the dominant hand lesson, use your left arm first. Report back once you went through those 9 videos at least once. Good luck and best greetings!
Feldenkrais with Alfons, you are a true gem! And hahaha about that “Inventory”, right? I will for sure go through those videos and report back! TY so much & I will use the left arm instead!
Dear Kathy, this question is a great starting point for diving into the literature of language, psychology and philosophy! 🤓☺️ A lot has been written in the past 50 years on these topics and I find it quite exciting. I'm not sure if there's anything significant about this in the sparse Feldenkrais related literature.
Hi Alfons. I'm noticing that my neck is extremely tight and I also have shoulder injuries that make it difficult to put my hands on the back of my head. I'm wondering if there are variations on these movements that don't involve putting my hands behind my head? And my tight neck seems to want to "hold on" to the point of not wanting me to move in these ways. Do you have any thoughts? Thank you so much for these videos. You are awesome and I'm really enjoying them.
@@ImprovingAbility Thank you so much! This was super helpful and I really appreciate your fast response. It was just the type of variation I needed. I appreciate so much that you are creating these videos. Thank you!!!!!
Hi Alfons. So, I've hit a sort of wall here. When I do this one I feel worse particularly in the groin/tops of thighs around hip joint, where there is pain anyway. Have tried doing less, but there is something about going in that direction - forward towards knees - that irritates what is already going on. Any suggestions? AND Thank You for you great work on these TH-cam videos and making this available to those of us out in the hinterlands!
Susan, don't think of these lessons as exercises. They are not exercises. If you found a limitation (or "wall") that's actually already an achievement, and you need to honor that. Don't try to push the wall. Instead continue with another lesson. Be gentle to yourself, go slow, small, make yourself comfortable, enjoy your movements, explorations, your experience and learning (and the moments when you feel stuck). There's hundreds of lessons, I just present a few. Finish this series first, and maybe later come back to this lesson.
Hi Alfon.. I got diagnosed 3 years ago with PTSD.. I still go into fight or flight .. I know the feldenkrais is so good for reconnecting with one's self.. I can alway feel my spine or certain areas you mention. Is this normal ..
Great movement sequence, thank you. Does the lesson foresee to contract the belly while lifting the head or should we only work with shoulder/chest/arm muscles?
focus on the movement, movement quality, your experience etc, not on the muscle action. Maybe like this: when you write an email you focus on what you want to express, and how you want to express it, how you feel about it etc. you don't put your main focus on your computer hardware or software
Sometimes after a lesson, I find I become very tired and often fall into a deep sleep. Is this part of my Feldenkrais process? It is like falling into another universe.
I also experience that, so do many others. It seems like there’s another coastline too, that once we are rested enough we become active again. I heard a few explanations on that phenomenon, maybe it’s best to do your own research because on this topic I can only quote people who already quote others and who knows the sources...
Hi Alfons, thank you for all the videos! I have recently discovered the FT and am very excited by it. I am a little bit confused about the exercises where one limb helps lift another..I have been practising lifting the head with the arms by trying to let the arms take all the weight of the head so I can feel what it is like to move the head with out activating the neck muscles and this has been useful- however it requires a strong effort in the shoulders so I am wondering if really I should just be assisting the neck muscles by using the arms- making it easier for the neck but not completely disengaging the muscles of the neck...the same for the hip exercise- I gained a lot from making the hip completely passive..but not completely sure I have the complete picture. Any advice will be highly appreciated. :) Joe
Hi Joe, trying to lift the head (or any limb) without helping with the neck/spinal muscles is a movement variation, to get to know ourselves better. I agree to me it also feels quite "funny" and heavy. I think it's not very "functional", just something to try and play with. However, It seems to be a save thing to do, and gives us something to talk or even debate 😅 I myself like to switch between vastly different modes of lifting during these movement explorations, the differences are striking. Great to hear you like my videos, Welcome on board! Alfons
@@ImprovingAbility thanks for getting back to me and welcoming me aboard Alfons :). I interpret the movement of the head or a limb by another as a way of seeing what muscles habitually contract- and how we may inhibit them consciously and perhaps later this will become a new habit making our movement more easeful. Does this resonate with you?
I’m a psychiatric nurse in the US. I took some time off this year because I was ill with fatigue, falls, and seizures. I got diagnosed with Functional Neurological Disorder related to trauma in my work and my past. I’ve been doing EMDR and the majority of my symptoms resolved, but I was still having “kickbacks” where one or two symptoms would come back when activated. It would be for an hour at a time, and I would be at work running a fever, blood pressure high, so it was very uncomfortable. I came across Feldenkrais while reading up on somatic therapies, looking for something to help, and then came to your videos. I can say this as someone who leads groups in my workplace, you are a) an excellent teacher. I can follow your videos and they make me smile b) your series is practical for a busy life and I can pick it up whenever. As to my symptoms, they’ve mostly resolved and I’ve seen my episodes reduce in the two weeks since I started following your videos. Last week I was able to cry through a panic attack instead of maintaining a fever, and got through it faster (baby steps, panic attacks are actually an improvement if you can imagine lol). Not to mention I just have a better “feeling” of my body all around. The lessons make me feel giddy and aware. I look forward to having “me time” every other day or so and rolling around on the floor :)
I just want to thank you for this video series and for helping me over an ocean. I’m truly getting better “day by day” 😁
Sam in the Midwest
I'm working my way through this series for the 2nd time now. The first time I did this lesson, I wasn't able to get much out of it, but after doing this again last night, my lower back feels so free. I can feel my abdominal muscles and how they are supposed to help support my body and how the support frees my chest and upper body. I've completely lost touch with my body from years and years of sedentary work, body shame, and chronic pain. These lessons are helping me learn to feel comfortable existing in my body again. Thank you so much Alfons for putting these lessons together and sharing them. I've never felt such joy in my body before.
I am doing your lessons daily and they are making such a difference to my painful body. I am full of gratitude for your time and sharing. Thank you Alfons.
I ended this lesson laughing with you... I can imagine myself falling asleep during Feldenkrais classes... something else to look forward to! Thanks again for another informative and transformative lesson. You really share YOU. I love this about your lessons. See you (kind of) in the next one!
Thank you so much for these free videos. I suffer a lot from back pain and neck pain because of desk work. I practice zen retreat. Your method seems very similar in the awareness of body connection and movement. After this video when I stand up again, I feel so free and so light. It's wonderful.
Beautiful thank you! See you in number 4 Alfons
Wonderful start to my day, coming out of stiffness into softness, thank you a thousand times for your salubrious company on the floooor xxxxx
My body felt like it was rocking on my hips at the end when standing - like the hip joints and vertebrae were so relaxed they didn't need to be tense to hold me upright. Very nice feeling - the Feldenkrais float. Thank you.
I also notice a stiffness in my lower and upper spine the morning after some of these lessons. It may be nothing to do with the lessons, but I suspect that the more I do Feldenkrais, the more my body releases old tensions as it re-adjusts to new ways of moving, and tensions that I would previously deal with through stretching, yoga or more more vigorous movements that I do each day. I may be wrong, but either way, I find it interesting.
What a difference! I feel so much more aware by the end of the lesson.
Thank you Alfons. I just came accross this class and it is very interesting. Felderkrais Method is here to put us in harmony. I am going to attend regularly. Thanks once again. Freny from Mumbai, India
Alfons, Mary here. :) -You are hilarious & I totally felt like falling asleep myself at the end of that! When touching right elbow earlier on toward the right knee, I could feel a tightness & what felt like a trigger point on the point of right shoulder. It went away a bit afterward & I could feel that muscle weakness. But when I was done, I felt like I should win the award for "fastest rolling yo-yo", as when I stood up, I felt like I was more stacked but yet flexible-stacked. haha! Have a spectacular day-I know I will! :)
"Don't make a chiropratic adjustment." 😂 Ich bin dir sehr dankbar sowohl für das Lachen wie auch für deine hilfreiche Arbeit. Liebe Grüße aus Nürnberg, Tímea
Another day of feeling freer in my body. Thank you
Ho 2 find the rest of the series?
Thx, this method is worth gold, deserves much more attention
I am feeling the results of these movement in enhanced relaxation and flexibility, and in soreness of muscles used. For example, I never knew how heavy my head was until I tried to lift it with one hand. Thank you, Alfons.
What an inspiration I find in you... Your passion for movement, life, harmonizing the body structure... Your Joy on sharing 💖... Your simplicity, sincerity and sense of humour 🙃🙃😊🙏🏾 THANK YOU FOR BEING in this moment in this planet 😘
Excellent lesson, Alfons. I enjoyed it and my 92-year-old mother is much more flexible and straighter with your invaluable help.
I like your teaching. Thank you very much.
Your videos are introducing me to Feldenkrais and I'm really grateful. You have a talent for instruction. I spend a lot of time on YT following tutorials and it's not typical for it to be such an enjoyable experience. Thanks for all the hard work you put into this! Skyler in Arizona
I love that I feel so calm afterwards and at peace in my body. Thank you for making this available to people who may never be able to do this otherwise. You are making the world a better place.
Maybe you could include the word Feldenkrais in your lesson titles. When I search Feldenkrais your lessons don’t pull up first or second but show up very far down. A shame because they are EXCELLENT!
Unfortunately that’s true, some kind of shadow-banning … I updated the titles of this series as you suggested, but I‘m not sure if this will convince the algorithm… please like, share and comment, this might help more! 🙏❤️
I'm not so sure I want the..."elongated backside and shorter frontside" 🤣🤣🤣 thanks for another great body organisation Alfons
Exactly! 👍👍 And we say this through movement, harmoniously, non-threatening, thus after the lesson we stand upright with more ease... and more knowledge, more experience, more options to choose from. Thank you for your insightful comments!
Constantly recommend my clients sign up with you! You make this fun!
Thank you Elizabeth ! I'm glad to know that my work is appreciated and I hope your clients can benefit :-)
🙏 At the end of the lesson I felt my voice (vocal chords) in my pelvic bones.
3rd day really is making that neck intercostal connection. Now that knee bend exercise where your eyes and chest move upwards as you rise become a lot clearer. The chest opening is really profound, and how it integrates with the neck and hips. Great stuff as usual. Kevin in Maine
good sharing and feedback Kevin, thank you
Thanks for all your lessons. Although I have practiced Feldenkrais on and off for a number of years, I am using lockdown to intensify my practice. So, having a long sequence of classic movements is wonderful. There are no Feldenkrais instructors on my Salish Sea island of 1500 residents.
Hi Alfons, thank you so much for your videos. As a classical pianist I can tell Feldenkrais has helped me to improve movements and flexibility a lot. I do go to classes but I practice with you at home or wherever I am :) I so appreciate your sense of humor and clarity. Greetings from NY! Laura
Dear One, today I was like 10 seconds in advance for every little break! sometimes it felt just funny! And the effect as lovely as always! Thank you for spending a Saturday evening taking care of you and taking care of others! Much Love and Appreciation always 🌹
Very enjoyable & I feel less inflammation in my knees today, as a chronic virus outbreak seems to be on its retreat now & discomfort in my glands/back fascia reducing, so these sessions are therapeutic during this process, I believe. What one believes, motivates 😁
they for sure are! I wish you a speedy recovery
I appreciate your teaching hugely. Thank you Alfons.
My body feels balanced, free and relaxed after this practice. Thank you very much !
1000 Dank Alfons!!! Deine Videos sind ein so großes Geschenk! Ich wünsche dir alles Gute der Welt und viel Motivation um damit weiter zu machen, du hilfst mir und vielen anderen Menschen sehr!!
Thank you so much!! :)
Thank you Alfons, It is life-changing.. so simple and deeply profound. I am learning so much about my body... no words can easily capture the discoveries and my gratitude. I feel inches taller!
I like this new introductory series; well thought out and well presented. I have your book, but the visuals are a huge help.
Thanks for all the time you are devoting to this!
you're very welcome, thank you for your support Ed ! :-)
I like thinking of my "bones floating in the muscles". Thank you!
This was awesome..you are so funny..I have great laughs. My body has never felt better. The past couple of days I have been doing some heavy garden work..I woke up much to my surprise with NO back pain..I attribute this to Feldenkrais. I have been doing the core work, and many of the other classes with you. Going to go through ask of these classes.
I am thrilled...out here in beautiful Austin Texas.
I went through Austria as a teenager/musician on the road..It is so beautiful. Through the Brenner Pass in the height of winter with no heat in an old Volkswagen bus.
Thank you so so so much.
Thank you for these. My wife and I have been doing one of your lessons together every day and it's usually the highlight of my day. Hello from Nashville.
Yoga hasn't worked for me for a long time, but these classes feel wonderful. Thank you so much for taking the time to offer these online classes.
Thank you. Getting better organized day by day with Alfons!
Wonderful thanks again ❤
Appreciate your teaching so much! I look forward to every new lesson.
2nd day did the 2nd lesson in morning felt so good that I am doing this lesdon in the evening. I do feel much better after every session, when I start my shoulders are burning with pain but at the end I feel so relaxed that I don't want to get up. Thank u so much
Hi Alfons! Just a quick note to say thank you so much for all the work you put into sharing these teachings. I've always been curious about Feldenkrais and after hearing you on a podcast recently I immediately came to your channel and tried it out for the first time. Have now been incorporating your videos into my daily movement practice and I can already feel huge shifts in happening in my body awareness. I come from a place of efforting so much whether it's yoga, work or just going about my daily life and this has soothed my nervous system like nothing else in addition to reminding myself it's ok to take time, be intentional and feel GOOD when we're using our bodies to do something.. i could go on, but I'll end my little positive rant here! Look forward to continuing my exploration of this method.
Thank you so much for taking the time to make and share these lessons. Looking forward to the next lesson :)
Bravo
Thank you Alfons for another excellent video. I am living with scoliosis and often have huge variations (right side much higher than left)to the muscles of either side of my spine. I have been finding that the difference is diminishing as I have been working through the Feldenkrais movements - i just feel so much straighter. So, a BIG thumbs up from me.
Me encantan tus lecciones llenas de dinamismo, claridad, eficiencia y simpatía. Gracias!
As always, Alfons, excellent lesson! I appreciate your expertise in the Feldenkrais Method. Thank you,
Julie in Colorado
Thank you Julie :-) btw, I appreciate giving the location in the comments, I find it quite interesting to see where everyone is
I keep coming back to this routine. It makes me feel amazingly tingly and so comfortable from head to toe. Thankyou!
Love your joyful lessons, thank you so much!
You always make lessons fun! Thank you, dar
Many discoveries with this lesson... hard to feel the vertebrae in my neck.. like one "block" and I was astonished when you said to rest your neck on the floor.. my neck is pretty far from the floor, probably from years of jutting the head forward, and also rounding the chest. I'm very interested to see if/how this changes as we move along. Thank you for your wonderful humor, all the effort of this, and how spontaeous you are with language.. exploring there, too, as words emerge from your mouth and you "taste" them and explore whether there are other ways to say what you are wanting to say. I've been on the Buddhist path for over a decade and this is so compatible, and also such a help for being in the body!! Much gratitude, Susan
I think the neck cannot rest on the floor. Did I really say this?
Thank you so much! These lessons mean a lot to me.
Feeling wonderful ! Like after deep meditation. I found this video when seeking for Anit Baniel method about which I've read in the article about the harm of long sitting. But now I am your fan :). Thank you. I am from Lithuania.
grateful thanks!
Please don’t stop making videos
Hi Alphons! I am moving through this series with a friend who lives an hour from me in Connecticut. We have fun discussing and comparing notes afterwards. We are appreciating your humor and all that we are learning. Thank you for making all this available.
That’s wonderful! I love it! I wish you two all the best! ❤️❤️
Catyy Paine is in Ct. but, she does not respond.
Today I repeated this lesson. It was very interesting to see how much more I was aware of today. And, you are so pleasant to be with, so it was refreshing and I might even do it again tomorrow before going on to the next lesson.
I think I begin to understand what you mean when you say "becoming more organized." Thanks!
perfect!!! Just what I needed to help me feel better in 2020 :) Thank you so much Alfons!!!!
this is brilliant!!! thank you,
florencia from santiago de Chile =)
Thank you! loved the after taste of this class YUM! dar
Hi Alfonso i want thank you very much for these videos.Practise for a month and I achieve very big benefits from this method, but I have a question if you have experiense with people with hight blood pressure tell me more about these causes.Thanks again and I will waiting for your next videos.
Dear Nikolay, thank you so much for watching my videos! 😇☺️ High blood pressure is not my expertise, but I would recommend to look into the work and videos of Dr. Michael Greger nutritionfacts.org/video/how-not-to-die-from-high-blood-pressure/
Hello from Turkey....I loved your videos and i want to say thank you, i feel much better now, ı appreciate...
Is it ok if i do more than one lesson a day??
Hi, thank you :) Yes do as many as you feel comfortable with... just consider the story my accounting professor told us: “you shouldn’t skip meals all week and then eat 7 meals on Sunday” 😅
Very light chest!thank u
Thank you very much you are an inspiration 😍
❤️ Thanks! Feels so lovely. Though for me it's hard to put my arms up in a relaxed manner.
Really truly excellent, thank you!
Thanks again Alfons, really enjoying these lessons. Today I noticed some shuddering/shaking in my shoulder at the end of the session when lifting my head. I don't feel like I was straining, but maybe this says something about how tense I might be outside of the lessons? Any thoughts?
I experienced this shaking after the second lesson! Normally that's a very good sign, as your body releases tension. There's a trauma therapy called TRE - they work with this shaking to release trauma from the body.
Lezione e sua conduzione fantastiche :)
Top! I could ear the différence when you spoke loyer.
Thanks
I thought it very interesting for you to say the bones are floating in the muscles. I always thought of it as the bones supporting the muscles.
yes! It blew my mind the first time I realised this. Check out "Dr. Stephen Levin: Biotensegrity (LBP 035) - Liberated Body Podcast" truly inspiring
Thank you Alfons. I feel great having just done the third lesson. I tried to give a thumbs up but the number goes down one instead of up one 😐
The Goldberg variations. 💪
yes ! :-) Originally I wanted to match the Goldberg variations title numbers to my video titles day numbers ... but then I got all picky and went with the one I like best first
Hi there & greetins from Canada! :) I just found your channel this evening...it’s pure awesome! *Do you have therapies for the thoracic spine? I am getting spinal decompression for C 5/6 & 6/7 (DDD) and after this traction treatment, my chiropractor tries to loosen my mid-back (with manipulation) but to n avail. I am very tight and very, very sore. I also have degenerated discs in my lumbar (3 discs) but not receiving treatment for the lower right now. Just the neck...I have a numb left arm b/c of the neck discs but it has somewhat improved after 18 treatments with the DRX 9000 traction machine. *My concern right now, is my left shoulder and scapular area is burning with pain and that mid-back seems to not ‘crack’ or loosen. He says the muscles in the mid-back are so tight. I am a 51 year old female and just want to be ‘soft’ again. Your channel, I so hope, will help with that! :) ps...I’m pretty flexible, but ironically, my back is ‘hard as a rock’. TY so much! I so hope you find this message!
Hi, thank you for sharing your story, or better, "inventory". Most of us seem to have a nice little list 😉 question is: how can we make ourselves more comfortable and live a "normal" life? Please work through the "Getting better day by day" videos first, but instead of using your right arm for the dominant hand lesson, use your left arm first. Report back once you went through those 9 videos at least once. Good luck and best greetings!
Feldenkrais with Alfons, you are a true gem! And hahaha about that “Inventory”, right? I will for sure go through those videos and report back! TY so much & I will use the left arm instead!
Can you explain the difference between sensing and feeling in the Feldenkrais method? I can’t quite figure it out. Thanks, Alfons!
Dear Kathy, this question is a great starting point for diving into the literature of language, psychology and philosophy! 🤓☺️ A lot has been written in the past 50 years on these topics and I find it quite exciting. I'm not sure if there's anything significant about this in the sparse Feldenkrais related literature.
我感覺我的肩膀放鬆了很多。特別是右邊。謝謝：）
Hi Alfons. I'm noticing that my neck is extremely tight and I also have shoulder injuries that make it difficult to put my hands on the back of my head. I'm wondering if there are variations on these movements that don't involve putting my hands behind my head? And my tight neck seems to want to "hold on" to the point of not wanting me to move in these ways. Do you have any thoughts? Thank you so much for these videos. You are awesome and I'm really enjoying them.
Check out my latest video “Access the middle back”, where I answer your question :) Thank you for the inspiration
@@ImprovingAbility Thank you so much! This was super helpful and I really appreciate your fast response. It was just the type of variation I needed. I appreciate so much that you are creating these videos. Thank you!!!!!
Hi Alfons. So, I've hit a sort of wall here. When I do this one I feel worse particularly in the groin/tops of thighs around hip joint, where there is pain anyway. Have tried doing less, but there is something about going in that direction - forward towards knees - that irritates what is already going on. Any suggestions? AND Thank You for you great work on these TH-cam videos and making this available to those of us out in the hinterlands!
Susan, don't think of these lessons as exercises. They are not exercises. If you found a limitation (or "wall") that's actually already an achievement, and you need to honor that. Don't try to push the wall. Instead continue with another lesson. Be gentle to yourself, go slow, small, make yourself comfortable, enjoy your movements, explorations, your experience and learning (and the moments when you feel stuck). There's hundreds of lessons, I just present a few. Finish this series first, and maybe later come back to this lesson.
:) thank you!!
Hi Alfon.. I got diagnosed 3 years ago with PTSD.. I still go into fight or flight .. I know the feldenkrais is so good for reconnecting with one's self.. I can alway feel my spine or certain areas you mention. Is this normal ..
My head felt lighter by the end of it, more fluidity in between my shoulders. :)
Great movement sequence, thank you. Does the lesson foresee to contract the belly while lifting the head or should we only work with shoulder/chest/arm muscles?
focus on the movement, movement quality, your experience etc, not on the muscle action. Maybe like this: when you write an email you focus on what you want to express, and how you want to express it, how you feel about it etc. you don't put your main focus on your computer hardware or software
Did you ever get an answer. Mm
Sometimes after a lesson, I find I become very tired and often fall into a deep sleep. Is this part of my Feldenkrais process? It is like falling into another universe.
I also experience that, so do many others. It seems like there’s another coastline too, that once we are rested enough we become active again. I heard a few explanations on that phenomenon, maybe it’s best to do your own research because on this topic I can only quote people who already quote others and who knows the sources...
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Hi Alfons, thank you for all the videos! I have recently discovered the FT and am very excited by it. I am a little bit confused about the exercises where one limb helps lift another..I have been practising lifting the head with the arms by trying to let the arms take all the weight of the head so I can feel what it is like to move the head with out activating the neck muscles and this has been useful- however it requires a strong effort in the shoulders so I am wondering if really I should just be assisting the neck muscles by using the arms- making it easier for the neck but not completely disengaging the muscles of the neck...the same for the hip exercise- I gained a lot from making the hip completely passive..but not completely sure I have the complete picture. Any advice will be highly appreciated. :) Joe
Hi Joe, trying to lift the head (or any limb) without helping with the neck/spinal muscles is a movement variation, to get to know ourselves better. I agree to me it also feels quite "funny" and heavy. I think it's not very "functional", just something to try and play with. However, It seems to be a save thing to do, and gives us something to talk or even debate 😅 I myself like to switch between vastly different modes of lifting during these movement explorations, the differences are striking. Great to hear you like my videos, Welcome on board! Alfons
@@ImprovingAbility thanks for getting back to me and welcoming me aboard Alfons :). I interpret the movement of the head or a limb by another as a way of seeing what muscles habitually contract- and how we may inhibit them consciously and perhaps later this will become a new habit making our movement more easeful. Does this resonate with you?
Fab Alfons
Practiced today, movement starts 8 min in.
Thank you 🙏 I updated the description
0:00 Introduction
2:15 Review
4:00 Rest
5:33 Main lesson
Mmmmm nice 👍 class
At the last min when standing, I feel my head is too heavy for my neck to carry. Any one here has the same feeling?
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My coxics or tail bone always bothers me I put my
Hands underneath so I am
Not so much pain
Mozart? Austrian!
I appreciate your teaching hugely. Thank you Alfons.
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