I'm glad you found it helpful! It is so easy to have the rib cage be like a rigid cage. The french call it a Rib Basket. I encourage you to revisit this sequence and learn to do it without the video. As you keep reminding your system to let those tension go, is it possible to make a new habit of easy moving ribs? Some other standing rib moving videos that relate to this one: *Rib Cage Un-Caged Standing See Saw ribs* , part 1 On TH-cam: th-cam.com/video/LU8qIXVp-_k/w-d-xo.html *Inner-X rib diagonals* , Part 2 On TH-cam: th-cam.com/video/bvpAMH_Ntf4/w-d-xo.html *The Archer* , a standing pandiculation for suppleness of ribs, spine, shoulders, arms and wrists. With explanation and encouragement to practice your Somatics for a better change. The movement is only the first 3m:10s, the rest is me talking. On TH-cam: th-cam.com/video/I6MRbTQnvJ0/w-d-xo.htmlsi=479vBtlyGdubja6f *The Movement called CD* , for LESS STIFFNESS of ribs and spine, Supercharge Your Spinal Mobility Free the tension between your ribs and spine! 5m:26s On TH-cam: th-cam.com/video/onyGosQtosA/w-d-xo.html See-Saw Shoulders, Standing Side Bend Breathing, Somatics Symmetry Sequence On youtube: th-cam.com/video/bbIsHOvKegk/w-d-xo.html
I am glad you are finding benefit in the exploration. Thank you. I may be helping you see the path, but your progress and liberation from the tension habit has been created by you.
I am glad you are enjoying the exploration of these seldom moved places. If you re-visit this movement a few times, your system will begin to accept the normalcy of the suppleness. How do you adjust and focus the lesson so your system learns it? This is a good related sequence to try: *Rib Cage Un-Caged, standing Standing See Saw ribs,* part 1 6m:56s th-cam.com/video/LU8qIXVp-_k/w-d-xo.html *Inner-X diagonals, Part 2* 8m:11s th-cam.com/video/bvpAMH_Ntf4/w-d-xo.html
@@ericcoopersomatics , You write "If you re-visit this movement a few times, your system will begin to accept the normalcy" - Word "normalcy" caught my attention. What if my tension is not always present. There are times when I have no tension but yes system seems to want to go back to alert, tense, vigilant state. It seems my normal is not relaxed torso but tense, only sometimes I get it relaxed. So Somatics would equally apply to physical issues that DO NOT necessarily manifest all the time?
Exactly! You can create that freedom. That's the skill that you even get better and better at, every time you practice. Re-visit this sequence and you can make an even deeper change.
You are so very welcome. One question is: What never moves? What place never changes? There is so much structural and movement redundancy in the system that it can work around a lot of dysfunction. Getting ahead of even the most inconsequential dysfunction can open new possibilities. I am so glad you are continuing to practice and explore.
🙄 Hi,Eric!! I was wanting this video!! When I try to follow your exercises, I listen to you... but who said I will go gently...slowly... Who said my shoulders go smoothly when they don't even go!! My neck...it stiffens... without me wanting to, of course... Beautiful old emotional responses, now useless, perhaps...All this on my right side, it seems like I don't even have a left side... except for my shoulder... (Laughing is good...) I then understand how and where tensions manifest themselves, through limitations and the difficulty in relaxing while moving. 🙄Said shoulders. they would seem like a sign of where this would go... (when I would have to clasp my hands behind my head, just as an example, they remain there, elbows forward... ) Today, putting attention on my thumbs is new! I almost don't even need to do anything! Thanks ! There are still some happy days ahead!
The youtube lessons are just your starting point. It is important to find time to explore the movements without my voice setting the pace and distracting you. If your right side is in need of a careful lesson, I encourge you to work from the top of this playlist: *If Your Sides Are Different Playlist, 'A scoliosis problem is a tension problem'. Asymmetry Playlist:* th-cam.com/play/PLFLw4vgr7ayj1sC-HRPGz7rv_koiiaWVk.html If you need some guidance in the basic movement for the sides, you can explore this list. (these are included in the previous list) *Side bend and Side Send Details Playlist:* th-cam.com/play/PLFLw4vgr7ayg805GghI6dZptt4Lob6sIj.html If you need to ramp up the intensity of the lesson for a very stuck side, these movements go from the first lesson to more advanced with a different kind of loading to teach the side. *Scoliosis Movement Playlist SSSS Variations, More powerful, more focused movements for the sides.* th-cam.com/play/PLFLw4vgr7ayiHb9eOocGskmA1gpXp-CAc.html&si=ySq_VMV1rRS_M06M When in doubt, the sides can learn a lot from twisting. This is a very gentle one to help you see it more clearly: *Can Gentle TWISTING Free Your BREATHING? Gentle Slow, Simplest Twisting Washrag Full Version* 17m:12s Detailed front and side breathing assessment combined with an easy, slow twisting Somatic movement exercise th-cam.com/video/lfbeq1is-ns/w-d-xo.html Be loving in the lessons you give to the parts of your brain that hold these stucknesses. Their intention is good. It tightened to protect you and get you through life. Please let me know if you have questions, comments or even aha movements as you go further in your exploration of the movements. Thank you for your comment. You can do it. Practice more often. Lots of little lessons makes good progress.... and completely stop stretching. Stretching confuses the tension system. Teach your nervous system to let you be more free.
It's pretty amazing how much tension I find when I go looking for it - slowly! It seems like every video of yours that I do, there is a lot of emotion that comes up. The tendency to cry almost every time I do Somatics makes me not want to do the practice. And I am not one to bottle my emotions!! I am very comfortable being emotional, just not very comfortable being free and active in my body. Deeply held tensions and patterns are present.
I believe you. I know a lot can come up. My suggestion for you is to do the gentle movements. They can relieve the intensity of your holdings without being so likely to open the flood gates. Have a gentler approach. I often do the most gentle movements. One of these related videos may be a good one to try next: *Side Lying Somatics for Fibromyalgia and Chronic Pain | Gentle Sequence* 14m:01s (I like this one, in bed, in the middle of the night. I have even done it seated, and on some boring highway driving.) th-cam.com/video/S9ht8jl4Q0o/w-d-xo.html *Gentle Somatics for Fibromyalgia, and Chronic Pain | Part 1 The Sides, Back, Front 16m:04s* th-cam.com/video/Z4ylCTQAnZQ/w-d-xo.html *Somatics for Fibromyalgia, and people with chronic pain | Part 2 Diagonals of the Back and Front* 10m:04s th-cam.com/video/1eCX6AdX6zc/w-d-xo.html Tiptoe into it. Be careful to not overwhelm your system. Try doing the movements with a more casual, lazy approach. They don't need to be done perfectly. Just close enough. Take the pressure off of yourself about somatics. Do the movements like a lazy cat. This theme of movements may also be a good to explore. I re-visted this one last night. *Full Version Five Tiny Arches | Somatics Arch and Flatten Variation | Back and Front Relax* 15m:35s th-cam.com/video/lp8aMHJI76Q/w-d-xo.html *Five Tiny Arches, Condensed Version | Somatics Arch and Flatten Variation for back pain and stress* 9m:09s th-cam.com/video/h8qtyb9RbM4/w-d-xo.html *Side Lying - Five Tiny Arches, Somatics Arch and Flatten Variation* 6m:43s th-cam.com/video/Gzqybx6h0Aw/w-d-xo.html Also, some focus on your sides may be helpful. The sides mediate between front and back. The sides may be a more safe entrance ramp to get to stress tensions that are front and back. *If Your Sides Are Different Playlist, 'A scoliosis problem is a tension problem'. Asymmetry Playlist:* th-cam.com/play/PLFLw4vgr7ayj1sC-HRPGz7rv_koiiaWVk.html
Qué bueno, muchas gracias. Me encanta tu canal. Dices cosas del movimiento que, aquí en España, no sé escuchan. Me gustaría saber más de la experiencia corporal somática. Un abrazo ❤
(Usando el traductor de Google) Me alegra mucho que estés explorando algunos de estos movimientos. Me doy cuenta de que este habla muy rápido en inglés. Con esta lección, me aseguré de que los subtítulos sean correctos, en inglés. Quizás TH-cam pueda traducirlo por ti. Centrarse en el estar presente en el movimiento. Qué lugares no sabe moverse. Está escondido. Trabaja en esta lista de reproducción para conocer los conceptos básicos. th-cam.com/play/PLFLw4vgr7ayiIX9O0hRsMwyxhaK4LTXXF.html Busque dónde su respiración está un poco constreñida. Esa constricción es la clave del estancamiento oculto. De nuevo, gracias por tu comentario.
Very interesting movements, thank you! I've always been wondering why we need Somatics in the first place. Is there a set of daily behaviors/habits, that would make Somatics redundant? I suppose tribes/hunter gatherers don't do Somatics, but at the same time don't have muscular problems. I'm convinced that Somatics is very effective, but isn't the root cause in our daily behaviors? The way we sit, sleep, walk. What if we sit like tribal people in various archetypal postures like squat, cross-legged, seiza, etc.? What if we sleep like them (firm surface). What if we walk/run as much? If we moved, sat, slept, etc. like we are supposed to, would somatic exercises be redundant?
We need it because the problem is a byproduct of the nervous system's ability to learn. The tension habits are learned, and normalized. A question I ask is why are humans so stubborn that they have over-ridden the natural tendency for postural yawning-like movements. There are even etiquettes about hiding yawns. Pleasurable, cat-like, postural yawings replace Somatics. Somatics, my version of it, allows a targetted approach to specific lines that have become static in a deep way. Another strategy is to do no self-maintenance in this way. Life beats us up, it gives us endless stress to react to. We become hunched over, stiff, asysmmetrical, twisted. That is also a natural way to go through life. The question is to change our self-limiting habits, or not? yes, sleeping on the floor, a hard surface gives the feedback the system needs to let the muscles relax. There are hunched over people in every culture. The nervous system learns what it practices. You can look a runner and many (too many)have postural tension deviations. Those toros tensions make the knee and foot pains. My recent personal approach is to lie down and only address the single place that has the least easy breathing space. That is the bare minimum. It' ward off the worst of the situation. We can get through it with that minimal approach. When I do my full practice, in 10-15 minutes I feel great, refreshed, renewed. That is rewarding. Most people feel old. That is not required. I prefer to feel young, supple, and free. A stress free life, with lots of variety of movement would, perhaps do what you are considering. I am not sure that is possible in this modern world. When I think of the caveman, and try out his posture, he's pretty tight and hunched. He needs Somatics, too.
This an intermediate level movement. If you are doing it in the beginning, it's important to not strain and stretch with this process. I do not know your specific situation. In a general way, i encourage you to gently settle the system down. Consider trying this one: to settle the low back: *Side Lying Version: Oh, The Places Your Back Pocket Can Go:* A very gentle movement to relax a tight, sore back. (Can also be done seated) 26m:12s On TH-cam: th-cam.com/video/RhNxOEUJKuM/w-d-xo.html There are more powerful movements, like my Un-sitting movement, that can greatly relieve low back pain. I encourage you to de-escalate the entire tension system. A good way to do that is to work from the top of this list: *Start here. Begin your Somatics Experience Here playlist:* th-cam.com/play/PLFLw4vgr7ayiIX9O0hRsMwyxhaK4LTXXF.html Be gentle in your approach. It's not stretching. It is teaching your nervous system how to let the muscles relax. Please contact me if you need more guidance. Go gently in the exploration. Practice often. -Eric
This is super helpful.
I'm glad you found it helpful! It is so easy to have the rib cage be like a rigid cage. The french call it a Rib Basket. I encourage you to revisit this sequence and learn to do it without the video. As you keep reminding your system to let those tension go, is it possible to make a new habit of easy moving ribs?
Some other standing rib moving videos that relate to this one:
*Rib Cage Un-Caged
Standing See Saw ribs* , part 1
On TH-cam: th-cam.com/video/LU8qIXVp-_k/w-d-xo.html
*Inner-X rib diagonals* , Part 2
On TH-cam: th-cam.com/video/bvpAMH_Ntf4/w-d-xo.html
*The Archer* , a standing pandiculation for suppleness of ribs, spine, shoulders, arms and wrists.
With explanation and encouragement to practice your Somatics for a better change.
The movement is only the first 3m:10s, the rest is me talking.
On TH-cam: th-cam.com/video/I6MRbTQnvJ0/w-d-xo.htmlsi=479vBtlyGdubja6f
*The Movement called CD* , for LESS STIFFNESS of ribs and spine, Supercharge Your Spinal Mobility
Free the tension between your ribs and spine! 5m:26s
On TH-cam: th-cam.com/video/onyGosQtosA/w-d-xo.html
See-Saw Shoulders, Standing Side Bend Breathing, Somatics Symmetry Sequence
On youtube: th-cam.com/video/bbIsHOvKegk/w-d-xo.html
This somatic movement is by far my favorite! Challenging and rewarding in all the right ways, feeling much better and ready for my weekend!
I am truly happy to hear that. I hope you have a great weekend.
That's really why I'm making these videos. So _you_ can feel that way... More free!
Thank you once again for your teachings 🤩. Blessings on YOUR journey💯.
I am glad you are finding benefit in the exploration. Thank you. I may be helping you see the path, but your progress and liberation from the tension habit has been created by you.
“Tension is stuck in your torso. Brain got used to it” True. And only even larger tension gets noticed consciously. Great exercise for tense torso.
I am glad you are enjoying the exploration of these seldom moved places.
If you re-visit this movement a few times, your system will begin to accept the normalcy of the suppleness. How do you adjust and focus the lesson so your system learns it?
This is a good related sequence to try:
*Rib Cage Un-Caged, standing
Standing See Saw ribs,* part 1 6m:56s th-cam.com/video/LU8qIXVp-_k/w-d-xo.html
*Inner-X diagonals, Part 2* 8m:11s th-cam.com/video/bvpAMH_Ntf4/w-d-xo.html
@@ericcoopersomatics , You write "If you re-visit this movement a few times, your system will begin to accept the normalcy" - Word "normalcy" caught my attention. What if my tension is not always present. There are times when I have no tension but yes system seems to want to go back to alert, tense, vigilant state. It seems my normal is not relaxed torso but tense, only sometimes I get it relaxed.
So Somatics would equally apply to physical issues that DO NOT necessarily manifest all the time?
Thank you for this very complete lesson. It has really helped to free my body 😊
Exactly! You can create that freedom. That's the skill that you even get better and better at, every time you practice. Re-visit this sequence and you can make an even deeper change.
Thanks Eric!
You are so very welcome. One question is: What never moves? What place never changes? There is so much structural and movement redundancy in the system that it can work around a lot of dysfunction. Getting ahead of even the most inconsequential dysfunction can open new possibilities.
I am so glad you are continuing to practice and explore.
🙄 Hi,Eric!! I was wanting this video!!
When I try to follow your exercises, I listen to you... but who said I will go gently...slowly...
Who said my shoulders go smoothly when they don't even go!! My neck...it stiffens... without me wanting to, of course... Beautiful old emotional responses, now useless, perhaps...All this on my right side, it seems like I don't even have a left side... except for my shoulder... (Laughing is good...)
I then understand how and where tensions manifest themselves, through limitations and the difficulty in relaxing while moving.
🙄Said shoulders. they would seem like a sign of where this would go... (when I would have to clasp my hands behind my head, just as an example, they remain there, elbows forward... )
Today, putting attention on my thumbs is new! I almost don't even need to do anything!
Thanks ! There are still some happy days ahead!
The youtube lessons are just your starting point. It is important to find time to explore the movements without my voice setting the pace and distracting you. If your right side is in need of a careful lesson, I encourge you to work from the top of this playlist:
*If Your Sides Are Different Playlist, 'A scoliosis problem is a tension problem'. Asymmetry Playlist:* th-cam.com/play/PLFLw4vgr7ayj1sC-HRPGz7rv_koiiaWVk.html
If you need some guidance in the basic movement for the sides, you can explore this list. (these are included in the previous list) *Side bend and Side Send Details Playlist:* th-cam.com/play/PLFLw4vgr7ayg805GghI6dZptt4Lob6sIj.html
If you need to ramp up the intensity of the lesson for a very stuck side, these movements go from the first lesson to more advanced with a different kind of loading to teach the side.
*Scoliosis Movement Playlist SSSS Variations, More powerful, more focused movements for the sides.* th-cam.com/play/PLFLw4vgr7ayiHb9eOocGskmA1gpXp-CAc.html&si=ySq_VMV1rRS_M06M
When in doubt, the sides can learn a lot from twisting. This is a very gentle one to help you see it more clearly:
*Can Gentle TWISTING Free Your BREATHING? Gentle Slow, Simplest Twisting Washrag Full Version* 17m:12s Detailed front and side breathing assessment combined with an easy, slow twisting Somatic movement exercise th-cam.com/video/lfbeq1is-ns/w-d-xo.html
Be loving in the lessons you give to the parts of your brain that hold these stucknesses. Their intention is good. It tightened to protect you and get you through life.
Please let me know if you have questions, comments or even aha movements as you go further in your exploration of the movements.
Thank you for your comment.
You can do it. Practice more often. Lots of little lessons makes good progress.... and completely stop stretching. Stretching confuses the tension system. Teach your nervous system to let you be more free.
It's pretty amazing how much tension I find when I go looking for it - slowly! It seems like every video of yours that I do, there is a lot of emotion that comes up. The tendency to cry almost every time I do Somatics makes me not want to do the practice. And I am not one to bottle my emotions!! I am very comfortable being emotional, just not very comfortable being free and active in my body. Deeply held tensions and patterns are present.
I believe you. I know a lot can come up.
My suggestion for you is to do the gentle movements. They can relieve the intensity of your holdings without being so likely to open the flood gates.
Have a gentler approach. I often do the most gentle movements.
One of these related videos may be a good one to try next:
*Side Lying Somatics for Fibromyalgia and Chronic Pain | Gentle Sequence* 14m:01s (I like this one, in bed, in the middle of the night. I have even done it seated, and on some boring highway driving.) th-cam.com/video/S9ht8jl4Q0o/w-d-xo.html
*Gentle Somatics for Fibromyalgia, and Chronic Pain | Part 1 The Sides, Back, Front 16m:04s* th-cam.com/video/Z4ylCTQAnZQ/w-d-xo.html
*Somatics for Fibromyalgia, and people with chronic pain | Part 2 Diagonals of the Back and Front* 10m:04s th-cam.com/video/1eCX6AdX6zc/w-d-xo.html
Tiptoe into it. Be careful to not overwhelm your system. Try doing the movements with a more casual, lazy approach. They don't need to be done perfectly. Just close enough. Take the pressure off of yourself about somatics. Do the movements like a lazy cat.
This theme of movements may also be a good to explore. I re-visted this one last night.
*Full Version Five Tiny Arches | Somatics Arch and Flatten Variation | Back and Front Relax* 15m:35s th-cam.com/video/lp8aMHJI76Q/w-d-xo.html
*Five Tiny Arches, Condensed Version | Somatics Arch and Flatten Variation for back pain and stress* 9m:09s th-cam.com/video/h8qtyb9RbM4/w-d-xo.html
*Side Lying - Five Tiny Arches, Somatics Arch and Flatten Variation* 6m:43s th-cam.com/video/Gzqybx6h0Aw/w-d-xo.html
Also, some focus on your sides may be helpful. The sides mediate between front and back. The sides may be a more safe entrance ramp to get to stress tensions that are front and back.
*If Your Sides Are Different Playlist, 'A scoliosis problem is a tension problem'. Asymmetry Playlist:* th-cam.com/play/PLFLw4vgr7ayj1sC-HRPGz7rv_koiiaWVk.html
Thank you @@ericcoopersomatics 🙏🏼
Qué bueno, muchas gracias. Me encanta tu canal. Dices cosas del movimiento que, aquí en España, no sé escuchan. Me gustaría saber más de la experiencia corporal somática. Un abrazo ❤
(Usando el traductor de Google) Me alegra mucho que estés explorando algunos de estos movimientos. Me doy cuenta de que este habla muy rápido en inglés.
Con esta lección, me aseguré de que los subtítulos sean correctos, en inglés. Quizás TH-cam pueda traducirlo por ti.
Centrarse en el estar presente en el movimiento. Qué lugares no sabe moverse. Está escondido.
Trabaja en esta lista de reproducción para conocer los conceptos básicos. th-cam.com/play/PLFLw4vgr7ayiIX9O0hRsMwyxhaK4LTXXF.html
Busque dónde su respiración está un poco constreñida. Esa constricción es la clave del estancamiento oculto.
De nuevo, gracias por tu comentario.
@@ericcoopersomatics muchas gracias!!! Veré todos tus vídeos
Very interesting movements, thank you!
I've always been wondering why we need Somatics in the first place. Is there a set of daily behaviors/habits, that would make Somatics redundant? I suppose tribes/hunter gatherers don't do Somatics, but at the same time don't have muscular problems. I'm convinced that Somatics is very effective, but isn't the root cause in our daily behaviors? The way we sit, sleep, walk. What if we sit like tribal people in various archetypal postures like squat, cross-legged, seiza, etc.? What if we sleep like them (firm surface). What if we walk/run as much? If we moved, sat, slept, etc. like we are supposed to, would somatic exercises be redundant?
We need it because the problem is a byproduct of the nervous system's ability to learn. The tension habits are learned, and normalized. A question I ask is why are humans so stubborn that they have over-ridden the natural tendency for postural yawning-like movements. There are even etiquettes about hiding yawns. Pleasurable, cat-like, postural yawings replace Somatics.
Somatics, my version of it, allows a targetted approach to specific lines that have become static in a deep way.
Another strategy is to do no self-maintenance in this way. Life beats us up, it gives us endless stress to react to. We become hunched over, stiff, asysmmetrical, twisted. That is also a natural way to go through life.
The question is to change our self-limiting habits, or not?
yes, sleeping on the floor, a hard surface gives the feedback the system needs to let the muscles relax. There are hunched over people in every culture. The nervous system learns what it practices. You can look a runner and many (too many)have postural tension deviations. Those toros tensions make the knee and foot pains.
My recent personal approach is to lie down and only address the single place that has the least easy breathing space. That is the bare minimum. It' ward off the worst of the situation. We can get through it with that minimal approach.
When I do my full practice, in 10-15 minutes I feel great, refreshed, renewed. That is rewarding. Most people feel old. That is not required. I prefer to feel young, supple, and free.
A stress free life, with lots of variety of movement would, perhaps do what you are considering. I am not sure that is possible in this modern world. When I think of the caveman, and try out his posture, he's pretty tight and hunched. He needs Somatics, too.
Very interesting exercise... but it gave me (a slight) pain in my lower back...
Would you have an advise about that ?
This an intermediate level movement.
If you are doing it in the beginning, it's important to not strain and stretch with this process.
I do not know your specific situation.
In a general way, i encourage you to gently settle the system down.
Consider trying this one: to settle the low back:
*Side Lying Version: Oh, The Places Your Back Pocket Can Go:* A very gentle movement to relax a tight, sore back. (Can also be done seated) 26m:12s
On TH-cam: th-cam.com/video/RhNxOEUJKuM/w-d-xo.html
There are more powerful movements, like my Un-sitting movement, that can greatly relieve low back pain.
I encourage you to de-escalate the entire tension system.
A good way to do that is to work from the top of this list:
*Start here. Begin your Somatics Experience Here playlist:* th-cam.com/play/PLFLw4vgr7ayiIX9O0hRsMwyxhaK4LTXXF.html
Be gentle in your approach. It's not stretching. It is teaching your nervous system how to let the muscles relax.
Please contact me if you need more guidance.
Go gently in the exploration. Practice often.
-Eric
@@ericcoopersomatics thanks a lot for your generous answer