Why Stretching Doesn't Work - and Why You Should Pandiculate Instead
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 11 มี.ค. 2021
- There are two reasons why static stretching doesn't work: It triggers your stretch reflex, and it doesn't change the messages that your nervous system is sending to your muscles to stay tight. Watch this video to learn why pandiculation is the most effective way to release your chronic muscle tension and relieve your pain!
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It's been a year since I started your online courses and stopped stretching and started pandiculating. My body has never felt better!! I wish I'd found you sooner. Your book is a gem, I have recommended it to so many people. Thanks so much for putting your work online and making it so accessible!
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Loved the video. So scientifically explained. ❤
This is very interesting. I’ve been doing somatic flexibility exercises and they have been the most effective in releasing tension and feeling more mobility without the discomfort that static stretching brings. I have been a dancer my whole life and have tried all sorts of “stretching”. So far, somatic exercises and breathing exercises feel the best on my body and I notice way more mobility and ease in my body without pain
Great, great great video mi Laeday
I got so much pain for days from doing yin yoga, I hate yoga after that experience. Somatics gets me pain free with very easy movements.
Very very good information thanks 👍
amazing points
I'm 71 & was born with bone deformaties of the spine & a twisted pelvis. I had extreme pain from 18 years old & more so after having 2 children. Doctors wanted to operate on my spine, i refused. They said I'd be in a wheelchair early. I started doing, then teaching yoga - it has been a lifesaver. I still teach twice a week, but i also brisk walk, get a therapeutuc massage sometimes & add a few other exercises. I'm more fit & supple than most people i know, even recoveed well from a freak accident causing a fractured spine 5 months ago. I'm a qualified Neuromuscular Integration Practitioner (body realignment - releasing holding patterns in the fascia/connective tissue). I believe there is room for variety & all sorts of exercise/treatments, not just one. A flexible body is a youthful body. Babies are born flexible & as one ages, gradually tighten up, so flexibility & strength are both important!
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Hi. Thanks for this video. It's really informative and I learn a lot. I discovered your channel from a TH-cam ad. I wonder why TH-cam algorithm don't promote useful channels like yours. Anyway, glade to find it.
Brilliant info
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so grateful for the link between trauma (the brain) and yoga ! essential. if my brain is feeling threatened (even if there is no physical threat in my environment) - the brain will make sure muscles are tight ready to Respond to the potential threat.
Hi, I came here just to tell you that I watched your entire 3:48 AD (on another video) lol, thanks for the video
Excellent, thank you for this. Just enrolled in your Level One course and am looking forward to learning more about this method. I have been stretching for years and still feel so tight, so this makes perfect sense to me.
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Nice explanation and video. I'm a Feldenkrais Teacher, teaching a very similar model of movement education and your ad came on my Channel - Sensing Vitality with one of my video! Good to explain this clearing to the public. Good luck and All the best to you!
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Good evening 🌆.. how're you feeling today...?
With a good yogic diet and daily practice anyone can be flexible . It varies from body to body that how much time the muscles will take to become flexible but it's not impossible।
Yes I agree that after stretching exercises your body becomes stiff again but with practice the body releases stiffness and become flexible
She is talking about people who are suffering from problems like sciatica , Spams and tight muscles, arthritis. She is not talking about normal person
Mate, you nailed it!!!!
This will help calisthenics athletes as well as gymnasts. I stumbled on this video through an ad. Just what I was looking for
thank you for advertising your channel because I came to know about you. thanks
Perfect explanation to why stretching is only temporary. Thank you and I'm try to implement pandiculation more often
Sad she does not answer you. Pandiculation is temporary too. Any discipline takes regular work. This pandiculation theory is only a fraction of what humans need. Watch animals in nature.
@@ArtOfHealth the same thing as building up muscle, that’s temporary too if you stop
This video is kind of misleading. Static stretching, if done well will lead to more flexibility over time
@@PeterTran1997 yes, just don't overdo, it works really well , i ve been doing since 1 year
The point is to stretch frequently not temporarily.
Thank you! I never get tired of hearing that stretching is not the key. I have just stumbled upon your work and am looking forward to finding out more about HOW you teach.
I'm sure there are others out there who are more altruistic & giving this out for free
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Pretty Interesting Sarah. Where can I get more information as I am facing this excat issue. It looks like working for sometime and the stretch comes back to normalcy.
Hi Srikanth,
You can learn more about pandiculation on my website, somaticmovementcenter.com. I have online courses that you can use to learn and practice the exercises at home. I hope that helps to get you started!
Sarah Warren, CCSE, RSME
Somatic Movement Center
info@somaticmovementcenter.com
Author of The Pain Relief Secret
can we merge the long stretching sessions with the pandiculating somatics
First time someone seems to be making sense. Thank you
Brush it really does work
It's one of the only reasons why contortionists exist.
What about the fascia? Does the streching doesn't work there too?
Most movement works the fascia in one way or another. There are so-called teachers that focus on specific areas of the body where there is fascia. The fascia tissue network is really a study of its own.
How do you pandiculate a middle split if stretching doesn't work?
Good question. Try a mix of static stretching, active stretching (letting your bodyweight rest on your feet during your middle--you may need support at first), and proprioceptive neuromuscular facilitation. Skip the woo these people are peddling.
you have to manifest that
"We were streching out balls"
Hmm interesting 😮
He is also included
Thank you for this, Sarah! I guess this explains why there was somewhat recent discovery that intense stretching prior to runs/workouts actually increase risk of a muscle tearing (due to the stretch activating the muscle to contract). It’s all making sense now. But a question, wouldn’t this premise mean that yoga isn’t that great for us all?
yoga seems like pendiculation to me
This has nothing to do with the video. Of course that passive stretching is bad before the muscles being warmed up. The question was if the stretching is good or not AFTER the training.
@@robertgergelyfi2460 yeahhh, ok. I don’t happen to agree with your mansplanation. But you do you. 😑 I still wonder if somatic movement doesn’t inform us that the intensity of stretching in yoga isn’t as great for us as we’d like to think. My question stands.
There are so many studies that show why stretching works, in combination of course with otger techniques (for example recovering from khyphosis- stretching the tight chest muscles, and strengthen the back muscles). In my opinion it would be fair to say that maybe pandiculation is better than stretching. Saying that stretching doesn't work, sounds a little bit arrogant to me :)
I didn't study enough to have a solid based opinion. I am just pointing out that there can be many ways in obtaining a goal in modern physiotherapie.
then how come all yogis and gymnasts are extremely flexible through out their life is it their training or are they are on frequent pandiculation unknowingly ??? can you share any research papers which makes your claim legit . i myself was not very flexible but it improved permanently but also have helped hundreds of people i have trained with static stretching .misinformation is more dangerous than no information
my experience with tension headaches and stretching was probably the biggest disaster in my life.
as everyone with headaches tends to stretch their neck so I did as well. The only goal that I have reached was neck hypermobility and in the end instability.
Stretching almost did not do anything for my overloaded trapezius and stiff neck. It only destroys my ligaments without any relief.
It maybe seems like if I am stupid, but the entire internet full of so-called physio experts says: You have to stretch, stretch, stretch more and longer and more times a day!!!
...but it is more complicated than just stupidly stretch everything.
The main point not covered in this video..is stretching after a good warmup .. gymnasts never knew about how to pendiculate.
Resistance stretching for sure works and has worked for me. Static stretching was worthless.
Misconception, i am a yoga instructor and i have done my splits with static stretching
Cuz these mfs have got all the time and patience in the world. Yes, yoga works very well and good for your body... Is it worth it tho? No. Let's be real here, people like me who spend 16-17 hours a day either at work, or traveling to/ from work don't have time for that. Yoga is not for us. All we need is resistance training, which is faster and more efficient.
What about flexibility?
I think its more like exercise, everytime you strech you force your body to addapt so you can strech longer and further but like they said in this video that streching does not relax your muscles so its a different thing
As far as I know, the act with the hammer activate the Tendon Reflex
The Patellar Reflex, or knee-jerk reflex, is the stretch reflex (myotatic reflex) of the L2, L3, and L4 segments of the spinal cord. I hope that helps to clarify!
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what is the difference between level 1 and level 2?
do i need to buy both courses to relieve pain?
Hi Dom,
You should start with Level One, which is focused more on the core of the body (where posture and movement patterns begin). If your pain is not relieved by the Level One exercises, or you simply want to learn more, you can do the Level Two Course once you've completed Level One. Level Two works more with the extremities of the body. You can learn more on this page: somaticmovementcenter.com/learn-somatics-exercises/
I hope that helps to get you started!
-Sarah
@@somaticmovementcenter Hi Sarah,
if I have lower back pain is level one sufficient or do I also need level two?
@@FruityHachi Hi Dom, Level One may be all you need to relieve lower back pain. You can start with Level One, and do Level Two in the future if you want to learn more exercises. Feel free to email me at info@somaticmovementcenter.com if you have any other questions!
@@somaticmovementcenter Thank you :)
So do you feel we should stop doing yoga? That Yoga does nothing? Thank you for the video.
Hi Shirley,
Yoga has many benefits! The main point is that static stretching (pulling on an inactive muscle) does not actually lengthen the muscle or help to alleviate chronic pain. Here is an article I wrote on combining yoga and a Somatics practice: somaticmovementcenter.com/somatics-yoga/
-Sarah
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Is there any research to back this up?
Hi Sarovar,
Yes, the first study of Clinical Somatics was published last fall. You can learn more about it here: somaticmovementcenter.com/clinical-somatics-research-study/
@@somaticmovementcenter im curious, stretching seems to work out very fine(doing exercises that stretch muscles which provides me with pain relief) i thought could've been a placebo, but when i told my friends to do the same exercises when they were suffering of back pain and that the exercises im telling them to do will make their pain temporarily worse but make it better in the longrun(which isn't true as they should get nearly immediate relief from 30 second stretches) they told me they actually felt immediately better after the exercises, and that what i said( temporary increase in pain) didn't happen for them.
So it couldn't really have been the placebo effect. I tested it several times. Stretching is very effective for me too. Plus the pain relief lasts for way more than several hours. And if need be, i could just do the stretch again and the muscle stops being painful.
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At present I am working releasing trauma from childhood. As we hold our breath to create muscle tension which repressed our emotions this may help me to unlock trauma.?
Hi Alan,
Yes, Clinical Somatics exercises (pandiculation) release chronic muscle tension, and people often feel emotional release as they release their chronic muscle tension.
Sarah Warren, CCSE, RSME
Somatic Movement Center
info@somaticmovementcenter.com
Author of The Pain Relief Secret
I am so happy you are putting this out there. I just released a podcast called Stop Stretching! Let's continue the revolution!
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I appreciate your explanation and demonstrations of what pandiculation is vs, static stretching. However, since pandiculation is essentially instictive movement from the insdie out, how can you teach it to others? That seems like an oxymoron.....
Thomas Hanna took the principles of how reflexive pandiculation works and figured out to do a voluntary version of it. You can learn more about pandiculation in these articles. I hope that helps!
somaticmovementcenter.com/pandiculation-what-is-pandiculation
somaticmovementcenter.com/clinical-somatics-research-study/
I suffer from tight pelvic muscles that caused me sexual problems? Can the cycle help me to remove tension from the muscles of the pelvis and the lower part of the body
Yes, you may find Clinical Somatics exercises helpful for this. Please start by reading this article:
somaticmovementcenter.com/pelvic-floor-muscles-pelvic-pain/
I hope that helps!
Hmm.. Most people do the traditional stretches. They simply don't work.
Involve arm, leg, spine in every exercise and use rotation in those to get REAL RESULTS.
Remember that you always need to use new exercises now and then as the old ones stop working.
By using the right exercises you will turn on a switch that takes you from low energy mode to high energy mode. Alertness, apatite, thirst and mood increases.
Good luck!
can you give an example with the middle split? WHat exercises should one choose involving rotation?
@@imondtitanic Rotation: hip to femur, spine, feet, shoulders. Every joint that rotates.
I don't know about the middle split.
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Which of these eastern practice is more beneficial?
*Yoga
*Tai chi
*Quigong
I have found this to be true. Static stretching is worthless, and if anything, might cause more harm than good. Look up resistance stretching, now that actually does work.
If I were to be put in something a little too painful like a split as an inflexible person, you'd probably break something.
Yet I was flexible, I wouldn't feel a thing.
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