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What have you learned about your habitual posture and movement patterns through this exercise? Outsmarting your neck and shoulder pain starts with you understanding your habitual movement and posture patterns.

This is wonderful, Taro. I am sure this will surely help me. Thank you.

This one was absolutely perfect for me to add along with two other exercises I’ve learned here. I’m learning how my low back and neck compensate for a tight mid-thoracic area. Just like you noted is so common. At 61, I’m easing out the imbalances with a few minutes done throughout the day. Good reminders to take it easy, do over weeks, and months. Thanks again!

@TaroIwamoto

Жыл бұрын

You're so welcome!

Thanks!

@TaroIwamoto

Жыл бұрын

Thank you so much for your support!

TY Taro.

@TaroIwamoto

Жыл бұрын

you're welcome!

Cool. I'll try that

Thankyou .

Another gem.

@TaroIwamoto

Жыл бұрын

:)

Fantastic, thank you!

@TaroIwamoto

Жыл бұрын

you are welcome!

i have no idea why this works, but it works. ty.

I love it, love it, love it!

@TaroIwamoto

Жыл бұрын

Glad you love it!

Ohhh this is super good! thank you Taro

@TaroIwamoto

Жыл бұрын

you are welcome:)

Thank you so much!! Right moment!!🙏

@TaroIwamoto

Жыл бұрын

my pleasure!

THANK YOU!! I needed this RIGHT now. I really appreciate your videos.

@TaroIwamoto

Жыл бұрын

my pleasure!

Brilliant! Really works! Thank you!

@TaroIwamoto

Жыл бұрын

my pleasure!!

These videos are super helpful!

@TaroIwamoto

Жыл бұрын

glad to hear it!

Simple and effective. short, and can prove it by yourself and see that it works. Thank you

@TaroIwamoto

Жыл бұрын

my pleasure!

Thank you so much!!!! 😊

@TaroIwamoto

Жыл бұрын

you are welcome!

These movement is so easy and effective, something you can do while you take a brief pause at work. Thanks so much for sharing it

@TaroIwamoto

Жыл бұрын

you are welcome:)

Body awareness, you have opened my eyes to see focusing on the body is all the body wants and needs to move in the right direction of body training and health. Thank you

@TaroIwamoto

Жыл бұрын

yes! Body awareness is so important, and yet we live in information world and in our head, and are disconnected from own body. Only if we learn to connect with our body and start to sense, feel our body, we can begin to understand what our body needs! That's awareness!

Very helpful. Thank you

@TaroIwamoto

Жыл бұрын

you're welcome!

This couldn’t have come in a more perfect time. I’ve been struggling with pain in my left neck and shoulder for years intermittently. I know it had to do with my posture, but retraining myself in standing or sitting correctly takes time so I really appreciate you releasing this video! I know it will help me on my journey. Thank you!!! ❤

@TaroIwamoto

Жыл бұрын

my pleasure! I am doing a series of videos for this topic so please check my last video and next weeks video!

@maijourdan

Жыл бұрын

@@TaroIwamoto I will, thank you!!! 🙏

Hello Taro, this is what I exactly need....thanks a lot 🙏

@TaroIwamoto

Жыл бұрын

you are welcome!

Great short vid

very big thank you ... since i have find your channel, i'm feeling so much better, thank you. merciiiii

@TaroIwamoto

Жыл бұрын

wonderful! thats a great news!

Fantastic! Step by step I am becoming more conscious about my body's position. Thank you very much!

@TaroIwamoto

Жыл бұрын

Awesome! Becoming more aware of own body and movement patterns is sooooo important!!

I was looking for some videos with feldenkrais practice I found your channel and I'm very happy: as other people already said, your concise video and the "straight to point" style are really appreciated! Thank you 🙏

@TaroIwamoto

11 ай бұрын

you are welcome:)

I really appreciate that your videos are short and to the point. And the voice over format is great. Thank you!

@TaroIwamoto

Жыл бұрын

glad you enjoy my videos!

Excellent 👍😃

@TaroIwamoto

Жыл бұрын

:)

Thank you, again and again, for your always helpful videos. Your beautiful smile at the end is a joy to see. 😉

@TaroIwamoto

Жыл бұрын

You're welcome again and again:)

Hi Taro! Thank you for your amazing content! I’m using your exercises to help improve my stretching routine and also recommending your videos to my mindfulness students. Congrats on your channel! 👏👏👏

@TaroIwamoto

Жыл бұрын

Thank you so much for your support! and recommending to your mindfulness students!

OMGoodness! This exercise is perfect for my neck and shoulder. God bless you for sharing your knowledge with us!!! This is priceless ❤🎉

@TaroIwamoto

Жыл бұрын

You are so welcome!

99% works!!!

@TaroIwamoto

Жыл бұрын

great!

Wow

tnx for de 're.inder dear TATA :))

This comes at a great time for me too, Taro. I’ve been struggling daily with tightness and pain in my neck and shoulder from gripping my cane and tensing up on that side in response to sciatic pain when I walk, resulting in a pinched nerve that makes that side of my head tingle. I’m going to try this. Thank you!

@TaroIwamoto

Жыл бұрын

You're welcome! I also recommend you try my sciatica videos as well as balance videos to help with your conditions.

Short and easy to follow. 👌

@TaroIwamoto

Жыл бұрын

:)

@jmc8076

Жыл бұрын

@@TaroIwamoto Forgot to ask do we lower arm btw or keep it up? Thx

@TaroIwamoto

Жыл бұрын

@@jmc8076 keep it up so you can feel a change in distance between shoulder and ear and effort in the area. It's all about becoming more aware of own body!

Cool 😎 my friend, and yes I will do it, as I have nerve pain in my left shoulder and arm👍

@TaroIwamoto

Жыл бұрын

Great 👍

Nice smile!

Wow it was instant relief ... a new guru to add to my Matt Hsu and Dr Berg... I am sorted xxx thank you xxx

@TaroIwamoto

Жыл бұрын

my pleasure:)

Nice practical and effective sir. Thank you 🙏 Hope this process needs to repeat with left hand also?

@TaroIwamoto

Жыл бұрын

that would be a good idea!

@vijayakumarp7593

Жыл бұрын

@@TaroIwamoto Thank you 🙏

✨Thank Y💖U! ✨💞

@TaroIwamoto

Жыл бұрын

You're welcome:)

This is great for when you have to spend long hours at a computer!

thankyou for this - i do your other ones but i have found myself locked lately. i've been in accidents and have sort of a permanent whiplash thing that flares up when ever it likes

@TaroIwamoto

Жыл бұрын

you're welcome:) when it flares up, I recommend my breathing exercises.

@alysmarcus7747

Жыл бұрын

@@TaroIwamoto any particular ones - because i am aware that my neck troubles impedes my breathing bg time. my pain doctor used to inject (magnesium) right in the front of the shoulder - OW - but it would relax EVERYTHING out and i could breathe

@TaroIwamoto

Жыл бұрын

@@alysmarcus7747 breath awareness video and body scan video would be great for calming the nervous system and reducing muscle tension.

Thank you Taro! You helped me a lot to recognize, the problem is not always where the pain comes from! (But to look at it as a whole) Do you have videos, how to sit, stand and walk correctly or how it should be/ how it is in healty, normal position? What is the correct posture? I have a lot of problems with my posture, which i now know i trained falsely.

@TaroIwamoto

Жыл бұрын

You're so welcome! I have two videos on walking (Farmer's walk; how to walk with anterior pelvic tilt); and many on posture, and sitting which you can search in my channel. Yes, the problem is not always where you experience your symptoms. Where you think the prblem area is more often the "victim", not "culprit" :)

@whydowe1675

Жыл бұрын

Thank you for your reply. :) And the last sentence is genius, will remember that one! 😊

Would this help a frozen shoulder? What other exercises would you recommend for a frozen shoulder? Thank you for sharing this great work ❤

@TaroIwamoto

Жыл бұрын

Sure! you can also watch my shoulder mobility videos, preferably longer videos as i provide more guidance in long form videos.

👍

@TaroIwamoto

Жыл бұрын

:)

Thank you ❤ 👍 #EkletkNerd #MisterWalter

@TaroIwamoto

Жыл бұрын

my pleasure

I have big time upper trap trigger points, esp on one side. Which includes same sided eye discomfort. I did this exercise,, ever so slightly helped near the occipital region of same side. I also have SCM triggers. Any others exercises that may help. Thank you Taro!

@TaroIwamoto

9 ай бұрын

Hi! I highly recommend you go through my videos in Posture Playlist as they help you understand a relationship between pelvis and neck and shoulders. Neck really starts at hips:)

@lw7654

9 ай бұрын

Thank you!!@@TaroIwamoto

Hi taro how can i strength my neck after this movement

Feldenkrais connects body and mind while other modalities focus on one at a time. No wonder why the narrow focused modalities have repeat customers lol

@TaroIwamoto

Жыл бұрын

whether you want to treat one or the other, mind and body are one thing and they move together.

@skynet4496

Жыл бұрын

@@TaroIwamoto I wish I learned this when I was younger! By the way, for the next video like this, can you use a different microphone? I hear clicks - a little distracting.

@TaroIwamoto

Жыл бұрын

@@skynet4496 it's never too late/old to learn and improve! I've tried a few different mics, and changed the mic setting, but i think it's my phone that is causing high pitch sound. I have been using my phone to film short videos these days, and use an actual camera to film longer ones. My apology for the distracting high pitch sound. I will continue to search how to fix the noise.

Thank you. Do you do both sides or only one?

@TaroIwamoto

Жыл бұрын

even if you don't have symptoms both sides, I would still practice on both sides to improve awareness.

@WiseOwl108

Жыл бұрын

Thanks again 🙏

Thank you ✌️ Should we do this on both sides or just the side effect it?. My thoracic spine is twisted to the right.

@TaroIwamoto

Жыл бұрын

you're welcome:) Let me help you by asking you a few questions. What's the purpose of this exercise? (A: to retrain your movement patterns and nervous system) Would it make sense to retrain movement patterns on both sides? Is there reasons why you want to retrain only one side but not the other side, or why you want to retrain both sides? If you only want to do only one side, what's your reasoning for your choice? It's easy for me to share my opinions, but IMHO, it'd be far more helpful for each person to ask him/herself questions why and come up with their own reasoning why and test, as answers depend on your intention. This is a good habit to help you problem solve problems as they arise, which happens everyday in our life:) Plus, this will give you autonomy and ownership = more confidence! I help people learn how to connect with their body and learn how to sense, feel, listen to their body and movements and learn to experiment, notice, observe, make adjustments, and problem solve, and continue. I'm here for you and others as a guide! I'd rather teach you how to fish so you can feed yourself for the rest of life than give you a fish so you can feed yourself for a day:) Enjoy movement practice!

@TaroIwamoto

Жыл бұрын

I also want to remind you that it's easy to become fixated on all asymmetries, and making cause-effect associations between asymmetries and pain and other symptoms, BUT, it's normal for our bodies to be asymmetrical. It's quite abnormal for our bodies to be symmetrical. AND, asymmetries don't mean pain or problems, although they can be sometimes (imagine you stand on one leg all day long!).

@luyzqint3760

Жыл бұрын

@@TaroIwamoto I have had issues on only my right side, my thoracic spine is twisted to the right, so that's the reason of my question. I'm sorry if I don't make sense, but one of repercussions of this is foggy brain. Once again, thank you ✌️

@TaroIwamoto

Жыл бұрын

@@luyzqint3760 No need to be sorry at all! I asked questions to help you think through and understand better as I ask my questions these questions all the time. Coming up with a hypothesis and tesing your hypothesis, and repeat this process is quite helpful in making sense of things. So, in case of your thoracic spine rotation, you can make an assumption that this thoracic rotation bias might be related to bias around hips and pelvis. So you turn your pelvis to left while sitting and observe how this changes your thoracic spine rotation. If it's less rotated to right, then your assumption might be correct. If no change in thoracic rotation with pelvis rotation to left, then you can assume that thoracic rotation bias is more directly related to your chest and shoulders. Then, you can start to ask more questions such as is it possibly related to your dominant hand, and how you use your arms in day to day functions such as writing, eating, typing, reaching, carring items, etc? I know I'm giving you a lot to think about, but improving functions isn't really as simple as strengthening and stretching muscles. It requires us to pay close attention to our own bodies and how we use our bodies in day to day movements and activities. We go through our day pretty much out of habits, meaning we use our bodies and mobilize ourselves the same way over and over. If we want to change how we feel in our bodies, then we need to change how we move:) That's what I practice and help others do:)

@luyzqint3760

Жыл бұрын

@@TaroIwamoto Thank you so much ✌️

Is it not the same as cat and cow positions? Although even it is… it’s more likely that I find myself on a chair and this exercise pops into my mind (and body)

@TaroIwamoto

Жыл бұрын

yes movements of pelvis, hips and spine are the same as cat and cow movements. The point I'd like to highlight is that this movement is not strengthening or stretching exercise for muscles. These movements with my verbal guidance are to help you become aware of how sitting posture (pelvis and spine position) affects shoulders and neck and tension in the areas, thus, to retrain movement and posture patterns = retrain/reprogram the brain/nervous system! In fact, that is what I teach on my channel! Improving one's functions, health, and quality of life requires one to change how he/she uses own body and moves, which is much more than strengthening and strengthening muscles! It takes more work and more time, but it'll be worth your time and effort because nothing is more important than your health, right?

Do not like your new format in KZread

@tousdr

Жыл бұрын

New format More money to earn Worse As usual...

@TaroIwamoto

Жыл бұрын

Can you explain what you don't like about my new format (assuming videos with voiceover)? What do you mean by "New format More money to earn Worse As usual..."? Based on the feedback from the survey I did a month or two ago, over 70% people who answered preferred voiceover format over my other format where I demonstrate while talking. So, I've been utilizing voiceover more often now. One of the main benefits for me as a creator was that I learned to make videos much more concise and shorter, which I believe many people like. Shorter videos don't translate to more money in KZread, in fact less money than longer format videos. So I'm not using this format for more money. I'm using this format for better vieweing experience and more values for you and others. At least that's my intention. But, I'd like to hear your feedback on why you don't like this format.

Thanks!

@TaroIwamoto

Жыл бұрын

my pleasure!

Thanks!

@TaroIwamoto

Жыл бұрын

thank you for your support!