You are not just structural/mechanical parts. Your body is not compartmentalized parts. You are the whole. Treating your body as such as if fixing broken machines does not make sense, does it? There's a good reason why structural correction isn't the solution to your health and wellness. Treating your body systematically and holistically makes more sense. When you experience pain, you may want to fix where you feel pain. You may think where you feel pain is the problem that needs fixing and correction. Pain is not a necessarily indication of injuries, particularly in chronic conditions. Pain, tension, fatigue are the reflection of the state of nervous system. We can appreciate our body even more and we can understand our body better and we can improve our health and wellness more if we study our body from a perspective of nervous system. Studying our body and movement from a perspective of nervous system gives you a much broader understanding of your body and functions. Studying babies's development is exactly that. So we've all been through without even being aware of that. We can now once again study our body and functions through lens of babies:) This sounds more fun than reading anatomy books, doesn't it? Learning movement and our body should be fun. We make it very serious as we make it about fixing our body like fixing broken machines. We are not machines. We don't function like machines. We cannot fix our bodies like mechanical objects. We are the nervous system. We are our body. We are our mind. We are the whole. We can connect with our body and sense our body and learn about our body from the inside out just like we did way back when we were a baby, small child. There was no goals, no judgement, no right or wrong then. It's never too late to start this process once again. New possibilities become available from here. Your strong beliefs that you cannot change keep you from seeing new possibilities. Let's move beyond fixing mechanical parts, correcting structure. Let's connect with your body, and learn about your body, the whole, YOU!
I'm recovering from severe disabling chronic fatigue and fibromyalgia, housebound and bedridden for 9 years although I was active and athletic before that. The past few years I've been working with various concepts about brain-body pain, danger signals, brain rewiring and it's starting to make a difference - understanding that I'm not broken and there's nothing wrong with me. My brain has just been doing a brilliant job at (over)protecting me from danger. I just found your channel and love this approach to actually bringing this to a physical activity and beyond the cognitive. I see it as gently, curiously exploring and mixing up movements so the brain can learn new ways of moving safely rather than repeating the standard danger-pain response.
I just wanted to say thank you for continuing to encourage us to move in ways that are beneficial for our physical and mental health, all the information and encouragement you share with us is much appreciated and I am feeling the benefits in my recovery from chronic pain and restoring natural movement to my daily life.... 🙏 ❤
I love your videos, thank you! They are simple, beneficial and informative. The improvements are numerous and I love to continue learning. Thank you again Taro.
The rounded back reach seemed to cause me more pain and then stiffness. That lower back, hip area is one of my most painful areas. I'll go ice it now. However, it was interesting to see how much farther i can reach when moving with the pelvis reaching back and back straight. Thank you for your videos.
You're welcome:) Sounds like bending with rounded back is your habitual pattern, so a new movement pattern for you is beding with more of neutral back/spine! Incorporating this new movement pattern in your daily activities such as putting shoes on, scratching your lower leg/foot, picking up something from the floor, etc would be very helpful! That is nervous system retraining! Enjoy!
@@TaroIwamoto For me this awareness of daily moving has made a big diff. I still have pain but now see better how I maybe make it worse and how to help avoid. Thx Taro.
I have been mindful of bending tilting my pelvis and find bending easier this may. I did bend rounding my spine and felt it more painful. Your videos are always interesting and make me conscious of how l am moving.😊
@@charleenhaynes3057 There is much more to to the essence of movement practice than "fixing" pain and/or making your body stronger and more flexible! You will become more aware of what you are doing, your habits, you, and you can learn to become a better version of yourself!
Hi Taro. Each time I do this, I get pain just below my left shoulder blade. I tried it when you first posted, and again today. Is there a way I can correct this so it doesn't trigger that area? I'm only going down as far as below my knees. Thank you ~ Marilyn
is that when you reach with rounded (flexed) spine or more neutral spine, or both? if you shift your intetion from reaching with your hands to reaching from your pelvis, what would happen? I would try that:)
Most videos and PTs say neutral or bend w/pelvic tilt is best. You say both are OK. I’ve trained myself to do a ‘hip hinge’ bend. Now it’s good for me to try a rounded spine at times to avoid habitual moves? From pinned comment: if key part of low back pain is local ie yrs after mult one side SI joint fusions? Help. 🙂
Biomechanically speaking, bending from hips with neutral spine is more efficient and places less strain on back, so, that is commonly recommended. However, this idea is sometimes taken too far, and some suggest you should never arch or round your back, you should always keep your spine straight. The truth is that spine is designed to move in all directions; our bodies are designed for movement. When experts start to reinforce this idea of you only have to move certain way based on biomechanics, and threaten people by saying if you move "wrong", you will damage your body, your nervous system becomes more sensitized and alarmed, and it will take even less stimuli to reach its capacity, and it will start to produce pain even more easily. I am talking about in case of chronic conditions. During our normal daily activities, we unconsciously flex, extend, rotate our spine many times, but when people start to move their back consciously, they suddenly start to experience pain with certain movements, or any movements because they got their brain's attention). Of course, in certain conditions such as acute injuries, severe osteoporosis, post surgeries, etc, people have to be cautious about certain movements, positions, activities. But in most conditions, ordinary movements do not damage our bodies, that doesn't mean they don't feel pain in their body. It is good to experience your habitual patterns as well as a new pattern for the purpose of creating a new neural pathway and connection in the nervous system. You are using movements as a way to communicate with your nervous system.
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You are not just structural/mechanical parts. Your body is not compartmentalized parts. You are the whole. Treating your body as such as if fixing broken machines does not make sense, does it? There's a good reason why structural correction isn't the solution to your health and wellness. Treating your body systematically and holistically makes more sense.
When you experience pain, you may want to fix where you feel pain. You may think where you feel pain is the problem that needs fixing and correction. Pain is not a necessarily indication of injuries, particularly in chronic conditions. Pain, tension, fatigue are the reflection of the state of nervous system.
We can appreciate our body even more and we can understand our body better and we can improve our health and wellness more if we study our body from a perspective of nervous system. Studying our body and movement from a perspective of nervous system gives you a much broader understanding of your body and functions. Studying babies's development is exactly that. So we've all been through without even being aware of that. We can now once again study our body and functions through lens of babies:) This sounds more fun than reading anatomy books, doesn't it? Learning movement and our body should be fun. We make it very serious as we make it about fixing our body like fixing broken machines. We are not machines. We don't function like machines. We cannot fix our bodies like mechanical objects. We are the nervous system. We are our body. We are our mind. We are the whole. We can connect with our body and sense our body and learn about our body from the inside out just like we did way back when we were a baby, small child. There was no goals, no judgement, no right or wrong then. It's never too late to start this process once again. New possibilities become available from here. Your strong beliefs that you cannot change keep you from seeing new possibilities.
Let's move beyond fixing mechanical parts, correcting structure. Let's connect with your body, and learn about your body, the whole, YOU!
Thanks for explaining this way. I need to take your channel more seriously and appreciate these simple movement principles.
I'm recovering from severe disabling chronic fatigue and fibromyalgia, housebound and bedridden for 9 years although I was active and athletic before that. The past few years I've been working with various concepts about brain-body pain, danger signals, brain rewiring and it's starting to make a difference - understanding that I'm not broken and there's nothing wrong with me. My brain has just been doing a brilliant job at (over)protecting me from danger. I just found your channel and love this approach to actually bringing this to a physical activity and beyond the cognitive. I see it as gently, curiously exploring and mixing up movements so the brain can learn new ways of moving safely rather than repeating the standard danger-pain response.
I appreciate these slow movements. They are really helping me be positive about the body . Thanks
I have autism and chronic pain/injury. You are HELPING me.
I just wanted to say thank you for continuing to encourage us to move in ways that are beneficial for our physical and mental health, all the information and encouragement you share with us is much appreciated and I am feeling the benefits in my recovery from chronic pain and restoring natural movement to my daily life.... 🙏 ❤
I love your videos, thank you! They are simple, beneficial and informative. The improvements are numerous and I love to continue learning. Thank you again Taro.
You are so welcome!
Thanks for this, Taro. It's amazing how the nervous system thanks us with a good feeling when we bend the way it likes best, for me with back arched.
Yes the nervous system has such an amazing capacity and ability, and we all have that!!
So good you know that. For me I wince just reading about arching.😂 The human body is so complex. I love it.
The rounded back reach seemed to cause me more pain and then stiffness. That lower back, hip area is one of my most painful areas. I'll go ice it now. However, it was interesting to see how much farther i can reach when moving with the pelvis reaching back and back straight. Thank you for your videos.
You're welcome:) Sounds like bending with rounded back is your habitual pattern, so a new movement pattern for you is beding with more of neutral back/spine! Incorporating this new movement pattern in your daily activities such as putting shoes on, scratching your lower leg/foot, picking up something from the floor, etc would be very helpful! That is nervous system retraining! Enjoy!
@@TaroIwamoto
For me this awareness of daily moving has made a big diff. I still have pain but now see better how I maybe make it worse and how to help avoid. Thx Taro.
@@jmc8076 wonderful! our brain has a wonderful capacity and has the amazing ability to heal itself!
True, just really get to know
Yourself & be yourself.
@@EstherJones-g4h yes!!
I have been mindful of bending tilting my pelvis and find bending easier this may. I did bend rounding my spine and felt it more painful. Your videos are always interesting and make me conscious of how l am moving.😊
Wonderful! It's fun to learn about your body, yourself through movement practice, isn't it?
@@TaroIwamoto yes it is you become more aware of what you are doing 🥰
@@charleenhaynes3057 There is much more to to the essence of movement practice than "fixing" pain and/or making your body stronger and more flexible! You will become more aware of what you are doing, your habits, you, and you can learn to become a better version of yourself!
Hi Taro. Each time I do this, I get pain just below my left shoulder blade. I tried it when you first posted, and again today. Is there a way I can correct this so it doesn't trigger that area? I'm only going down as far as below my knees. Thank you ~ Marilyn
is that when you reach with rounded (flexed) spine or more neutral spine, or both? if you shift your intetion from reaching with your hands to reaching from your pelvis, what would happen? I would try that:)
Most videos and PTs say neutral or bend w/pelvic tilt is best. You say both are OK. I’ve trained myself to do a ‘hip hinge’ bend. Now it’s good for me to try a rounded spine at times to avoid habitual moves? From pinned comment: if key part of low back pain is local ie yrs after mult one side SI joint fusions? Help. 🙂
Biomechanically speaking, bending from hips with neutral spine is more efficient and places less strain on back, so, that is commonly recommended. However, this idea is sometimes taken too far, and some suggest you should never arch or round your back, you should always keep your spine straight. The truth is that spine is designed to move in all directions; our bodies are designed for movement. When experts start to reinforce this idea of you only have to move certain way based on biomechanics, and threaten people by saying if you move "wrong", you will damage your body, your nervous system becomes more sensitized and alarmed, and it will take even less stimuli to reach its capacity, and it will start to produce pain even more easily. I am talking about in case of chronic conditions. During our normal daily activities, we unconsciously flex, extend, rotate our spine many times, but when people start to move their back consciously, they suddenly start to experience pain with certain movements, or any movements because they got their brain's attention). Of course, in certain conditions such as acute injuries, severe osteoporosis, post surgeries, etc, people have to be cautious about certain movements, positions, activities. But in most conditions, ordinary movements do not damage our bodies, that doesn't mean they don't feel pain in their body. It is good to experience your habitual patterns as well as a new pattern for the purpose of creating a new neural pathway and connection in the nervous system. You are using movements as a way to communicate with your nervous system.
@@TaroIwamoto
Thanks for a thoughtful reply Taro. I will read a few times.
How long do you do this?