Alfons this lesson was so helpful. I had an accident 6 months ago, and badly damaged my left leg, particularly the knee. It was difficult to relax my body at first and concentrate only on my left foot because I was anticipating pain, but there wasn't any. The relief and release was very emotional. Physiotherapy has brought me to tears daily during my recovery, but those were tears of agony, this was joyous; interesting and illuminating. My body felt so different when doing the exercise putting force through my right foot rather than the left. I experienced so much, learned so much, too much to explain here, but I am so grateful. Thank you. Karen. UK

Loved how you explained weight shift and force with softness, thank you once again! Dar

I can't tell you how grateful I am for your videos, Alfons! Our whole area is in isolation from covid-19, yet I can continue having my body work better and better. So many people are complaining of boredom, yet there is endless interest available in our own bodies! Thank you for creating access for that. I hope you are safe and well!

Excellent lesson Alfons - thank you so much. My whole body felt much closer to the floor after the lesson and I felt very grounded when standing also.

Astonishingly effective. Thank you, Alfon!

I loved this lesson! Tryng not to engage the core muscle is a great opportunity to release back pain. The standing position in the end made me consider my asimmetric way to stand. Thank you so much!

Hi Alfons, I just love what you are doing. I used the first half of this lesson this evening in my 'Spring into Action' class. Only had two in the clsss but after doing this one got up and said ''I want to run' I said 'That's what we are here for isn't it!'

This movement without using the core strength is so delicious, I feel so alive, I am addicted to it. Thank you so much.

@ImprovingAbility

7 жыл бұрын

Good observation and feedback ! To be able to differentiate between core stiffness (when needed) and to have a supple core (when appropriate) is a very refined, highly developed movement skill. Not everyone knows about this, not everyone can do it. Thank you for sharing :-)

@cinmac3

4 жыл бұрын

Jin Jandovitz what is funny Jin , I didn’t notice core because , I have pain still in lower back, hips obliques,pelvis

Great lesson. Thank you. Grammar point: "Get your right foot to stand" and "Bring your right foot to standing" are both correct.

Excellent video and teaching. I feel very light and centered after doing your lesson. Thank you again!!

Thank you for this. Gaining more awareness of my usual tension and being able to relax is a gift.

Thank you for your classes. You have unlocked my neck , shoulders and chest. I have cervical dystonia and scoliosis. God bless you

This was a most wonderful experience. I love all of your exercise. Transforming .. I've worked with many Feldenkrais teachers, in parts of our glove. I find your work the most helpful, of all! Gratitude for what you bring to us. So generous of you!

This is amazingly helpful. Thank you, Alfons.

I got this video recommended by my FK teacher, and it was the very best tipp from her! Thanks a lot for this impressive lesson, it made me really feel good.

I enjoyed this lesson very much. Especially the final hip tilting both ways, back and forth..It's very soothing.

I felt light on my feet and learned where I am stable when standing. Thank you for emphasizing that placing our feet “shoulder with” or “hip width” apart isn’t necessarily the correct way. It is where I feel most stable on my own two feet.

Fascinating. Really enjoyed this one, the sense of weight transfer within foot and across feet.

Quite interesting discovery and application.

Discover ed your channel. Love live love. Thanks.

Thank you so much for this video. I had an amazing connection to my feet at the end of this lesson. I don't usually have very much awareness in my feet, so it was nice to connect with them again. I also found that it released the tension in my hips and low back. :)

@ImprovingAbility

7 жыл бұрын

+Leah Twitchell very good sharing, thank you :-) I myself am always surprised on how many parts of myself these lessons are touching and working. They make me feel whole, comfortable and energized (in a very relaxed way)

Thanks Alfons for this lesson, it seems so easy but with observation of the physical makes it so subtle and the excercise can be taken to the next level. Well, when it started there was tingling in my left thigh and after completion lot of heat was felt in the physical. While standing felt very light. Thanks once again for explaining the entire excercise.

Thanks Alfons....this was a great exercise and really helped me to fine tune my awareness. The adding and removing weight into the foot can be done so subtly that you become aware of tiny movements throughout the leg, hip joint and spine. Really liked this. Standing at the end was also a very good experience - made me think I have never really stood properly before.

@ImprovingAbility

7 жыл бұрын

I'm glad you could make well use of this lesson, Phil. As always, thank you for your profound feedback and sharing ! :-)

Thank you!! The second time I spent more time with both sides then stood up and I felt literally centre. hhah

excelentes todas tusa clases. Gracias por compartirlas.

Alfons, thank you for explaining this so well! A lesson on pelvis tilting was the very first Feldenkrais lesson I watched and tried on you tube. But you weren't the teacher. I could find the movement only by copying it and observing the alternating space between back and floor and neck and floor. Watching your video made it it effortless! As a matter of fact, I could do it by just listening. This is because you mentioned putting weight on feet or lifting it off of them and because you explained directions! Having only ever done pelvic tilts while standing up, I had forward and backwards wrong: FORWARD MEANS TOWARDS THE FEET. It made all the difference! You're a great teacher!

@micaelat3734

4 жыл бұрын

Feldenkrais in Master Moves mentioned this. The top of the pelvis moves backward when you push against the floor.

I loved this lesson Alfons - thank you so much. My legs at the end of the lesson were much closer to the floor and seemed as if they had lengthened.

How I would like to have an analytical and reflective mind like yours. This lesson is brilliant👏

Thank you for this class! In my believe your core and hip muscles are totally relaxed when the pelvis is tilting when pressing the feet in the ground and that's why it's able to distribute the weight shift through the body. I use this (something similar) to let people feel the difference between tension and relaxation. I am on my way to teach a class so will use this one instead this time. :)

@ImprovingAbility

7 жыл бұрын

exactly.. I find it important to be able to tell them from each other

I fear lying down on the floor and then not being able to raise. I am 73. So I did all the exercises sitting. Great!

@ImprovingAbility

7 жыл бұрын

good strategy. hope you will be able to graduate to the floor again one day. what's your main culprit?

@vickyaugusta

7 жыл бұрын

Dear Alfons: No culrpit in particular, but all my body hurts a little. Your movements have helped my shoulders a lot! Thanks!

It was interesting to me that when I rolled to the right my head rolled keeping contact with the floor, but when I rolled to the left, my head left the floor each time as it rolled and it felt like I was rolling UP onto, and then over my shoulder. Thank you Alfons for making these lessons available to us.

@ImprovingAbility

5 жыл бұрын

such good learning! Very nice 😊🍀

I liked the way you explained transferral of weight through your hands against the wall, first. I've done a similar lesson (11. Master Moves). Different, but you really convey the spirit of Feldenkrais. Explore. Be curious. Keep up the good work.

After doing the lesson I stood up feeling 7feet tall. (I’m 5’6”)

Top!

Hiii , I liked this feldenkrais principle n I am applying this to every area of life , can I add gym routine with this movements

Very good ! felt how legs became relaxed and loger ! PLease note: by saing a movment is complicated we are priming peoples mind, so it can become complicated to someone that coun had done easy just by foollowing your very well detailed instructions. ( for the concept of mind priming see the book , Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking Thanks for your dedication to share this somatic education .

I feelt the left side of my spine or back as lighter or more visible or able to sense than the right side, before doing the movement with weight on the right leg.

Feldenkrais is sooo interesting! The feelings are so unique, so different from that which I’ve experienced in swimming and yoga. Swimming since a child, and as an adult, it was my preferred therapeutic total feel good exercise. Then came yoga (not expert, just beginner/intermediate) but amazing new body awareness and feelings (12 years of regular practice) At 59, I really thought it would be swimming and yoga for my body as it ages. But now this! It's another revolutionary stage of body awareness! Question: can you address muscle tightness/cramping in legs and feet. I’m a teacher and stand a lot. I wear reasonable shoes and try to drink water throughout the day. But cramps are frequent in the evening and periodically when I sleep. Any specific Feldenkrais movement to help?

Beautiful lesson Alfons to get your pelvis flexible, for me at least. Although by the end of the lesson my lower back hurt (I have issues with it) but I followed it up with movements from your lower back video and tada!! feel all good 😊 Thank you 🙏

@ImprovingAbility

6 жыл бұрын

+Nishka Manglani, seems like you have a complete "crime story", with all the clues to solve the case already there

When I press my feet and release my feet my spine doesn't really follow as a whole and definitely not related to the neck. I have to tilt and untilt my back all the while trying to think that the feet is leading this. For now, it hadn't improved with repeats. In fact fatigue was kicking in! I stopped overworking it but rather try the day after tomorrow. I will see how I can improve.

Alfons, I have been utilizing your videos to help readjust my body after suffering for 12 years with sciatic pain in my right leg and gaining a limp as if one leg was shorter than the other. Not only did your videos help me to regain my natural walk pattern, they've also helped in realigning my hips to open in an attempt to begin doing ashtanga yoga sun salutations without strain on my muscles or ligaments through modified poses. Should I do the exercises of feldenkrais just before doing sun salutations or should I make them at different times of the day with my 8 hour work schedule in between?

@Blackbeltbty1

7 жыл бұрын

By the way, thank you so graciously!!!! You have been quite a lifesaver!!!

@ImprovingAbility

6 жыл бұрын

uhm, good question. Modified poses sounds great. If you do stuff that hurts I suggest not to do that, even though you would like to. Find alternatives. Don't use FELDENKRAIS® to fix pain or do damage control. Do damage control by identifying problematic movement patterns and drop or replace them with something better. Therefore YES to modified poses! Do FELDENKRAIS® lesson whenever you feel like you enjoy doing them. Sometimes we need to wait for the desire to arise.

Quiero practicar este metodo, pero cero inglés. ¿Si pudiesen publicar alguno en español? Gratamente agradecida

What is the advantage in not using the core to raise the legs?

Hi Alfonse,I thought this was a flexible spine, I need help with both of course, thanks.

Movements starts later then I thought, I suppose my poor expectation was different from the title, would have been better for me, if explained fined tuning of pelvis rather than core.

Fucking fantastic.

Loved this core work out, and the variation of using the chair to work the glutes. The more I do these lessons the better the approximations become. I have been doing video in Hip Joints: Improve Hip flexion + extension without stretching tutorial for the hip flexors, and really enjoying activating the glutes and elongating the hip flexors. My right leg is somewhat shorter in length and sometimes when I am walking I notice a sort of numbness and pins and needles sensation in the right foot.... almost like a phantom limb analogy. Although I must say after having done many lessons and reps of the Hip Joints series and others, I am now walking more freely and using my umbrella (I prefer not to say "stick") to hike or propel myself. So there is progress. What are your thoughts about the sensations in the right foot. Many thanks.

@ImprovingAbility

6 жыл бұрын

Dear Gyan, hm, tuff question. I hope to give you the tools so that you are confident in solving cases on your own, especially as things continue to come up in your life... as they do in my life for myself and for everybody it's the same thing. Issues arise. Difference is: do we fold, or do we retreat, tinker, think, experiment, evolve and move on (to the next case)? For the tingling sensation it might be something in your lower spine? Try pelvic clock lessons, gentle pelvic rocking lessons, and my core work (which I still haven't filmed yet), core stabilization (side bridge, curl up, bird dog, youtube "McGill Big 3") ... glute bridge? Or it might be in your chest ... try "making the chest more flexible" ? Good luck and best greetings! Alfons

7:25 Camera: suggestion -- put a screen on the ceiling so you can monitor yourself -- and your feet back of course

@ImprovingAbility

7 жыл бұрын

:-) a decent boom stand .. definitely on my wish list !

@juliacalderon3607

6 жыл бұрын

John Bicycle

Do you keep you back in the natural arch position or have it navel to spine?

@ImprovingAbility

2 жыл бұрын

Please provide a timecode for the exact movement in question ⏱

6:21 feetback: You are inventing a new language, what we might call der feldensprechen. Tres amusement.

@cinmac3

4 жыл бұрын

John Bicycle when the movement finally began., but, I kind of understand why.

8:29 movements