Спасибо огромное! Thank you so so much from Russia! This lesson is great! My neck and shoulders are "singing" with happiness!

Alfons I am looking forward to working with my neck spine bones as I had multiple chiropractic treatments age 11-12 involving karate chops to my right clerical joints and these have resulted iin arthritis in my neck with much distortion.of the vertebrae (I am in my 70’s). Furthermore you’re very positive and give joy and good cheer. I’ll be forever grateful and have shred your videos with three people so far. I hope they will pursue your lessons and benefits they enable, judi

Alfons I ADORE you!!! Your lessons are absolutely fantastic, relaxing and helpful.

Alfons-LOVE this lesson! I've been following you for some time, and so appreciate your playfulness & how you encourage creativity and exploration with the movements. Being someone who can fall prey to the tyranny of symmetry, I especially love your instruction to just let the body fall where it wants when coming to rest...so liberating!!

@ImprovingAbility

3 жыл бұрын

yes! this is something so little understood, to let the arms/legs etc rest where there’s the least tension. thank you for acknowledging this! 🥰🙏

Alfons, doing an hour (sometimes more) of the Feldenkras Method is resulting in a magical experience for me. Gently, ever so gently, my 84-year-old body is regaining strength and agility that was lost in an overworked exercise session at the gym. I’ve given up that grunting and groaning for the soft, but powerful, treatment you teach. A million thanks to you and "the process."

@imaddream6059

3 жыл бұрын

I did this lesson yesterday and did again today! because I felt I did not get the full benefit of this lesson yesterday. But today I enjoyed it more and I was relaxed completely during the lesson and managed to let gravity do the work as per your instructions! Your lessons have helped me to reduce tension in my body specially in my left arm, my jaws and my tongue resulting from my Parkinson’s disease. Thank you Alfonso for your lessons😋

I have been suffering from the affect of having had dual rotator cuff reconstruction surgeries 8 years ago as well as being diagnosed with bone spurs on C5 & C6. Even after Physical Therapy, Yoga or Acupuncture there has always existed underlying tension and stiffness and disconnectedness. Your videos have been a God send to my body and mind! You have guided me to be able to access my body's interior and to play and explore movement and find the separate parts of my body's construction and identify where the movement begins from and goes to. Thank you so so much!! A free-er body makes for a free-er mind. PS: You make it a fun and introspective experience.

Dear Alfons. Your technic and attitude so unique!,,,and at the end I couldn't believe what happened to my neck!!! Please please keep sharing with us.... Thank you. Olga

Alfons Your work is helping me to feel so comfortable in neck and shoulders. The explanations are so clear with sufficient explanations and i love your spirit of fun and ease.

Alfons, thank you soooo much for another excellent session!! fun and pleasant as usual, and getting results with your easiness method😘

Dear Alfons . Thank you for relieving an excruciating pain in m shoulder (impingment+frosen) I could never thank you enough.Please keep doing great videos. You are so real and genuine. It is rare. Thanks again

@ImprovingAbility

8 жыл бұрын

I'm glad you found the video and made good use of it, my thanks to you too ! :-) and I really appreciate your feedback

Thanks for this lesson Alfons! I have pain with certain moves on my on right arm rotator cuff, that according to dr. is tendonitis. Don’t want pain killers or PT. I think your exercises are the cure I have been looking for in the last year. 🌟

WOW, thank you for this Alfons! The last exercise, especially, was a bliss for my neck and shoulders! I have been suffering from TMJ and noticed that gentle massages and feldenkreis exercises help the most. Everything else felt a bit intrusive. Thank you! I appreciate your attitude towards having no expectations and strict guidelines but rather experimenting and stepping in touch with what our bodies need. Beautiful.

Thank you, Alfons. I love this movement sequence. It is one of my favorite lessons. I couldn't believe my incredible neck releases. I've had problems with my neck since torticollis at age twelve. Finally, it is releasing. I am very grateful to you and you amazing lessons.

@ImprovingAbility

4 жыл бұрын

This lesson is easy to love, and it loves us back! ❤️❤️ thank you for your kind expression of gratitude and sharing your story

I LOVE this lesson! My whole body loves it, thank you xxxx

@blaggie2

Жыл бұрын

again, I seem to have come through some barrier whereby I can let go more ... much appreciated xx

To Alfons, I have been following you on you tube for more or less a yesr, and am deeply and forever grateful to you, not least for your relaxed style of teaching. My very best wishes, Carmen..

This session was simply magical from start to finish. What a blessing these videos and you are, Alfons. Thank you, thank you, thank you!!!!!

Amazing results...thank you so much Alfons!

This is one of my favorite lessons. Plan to teach it to my student this morning. Thank you for sharing these incredible lessons; lighthearted and fun. .

Thank you Alfons. Even your old videos are still valuable.

Dear Alfons, thanks for all of your lessons, thanks that you share your knowledge ! I practise regulary, daily. Helps a lot!

Great lesson. Love your clear caring instructions. And my neck and shoulders feel so much more comfortable . A thousand thanks...

Thank you for this great instruction. I am most grateful for it.

Thank you so much for your fun and beneficial video. They are a great source of pleasure and learning for me.And what a relief for my neck and shoulders.

another great start to my day. thank you alfons!

Hello Alfons from Vancouver, Canada! Thank you so much for this video. I was having some pain in my left neck and shoulder and with your guidance in this video, the pain has almost subsided. I shall continue to practice!! :)

Revisiting this lessons and understanding better how to do them and how to sense the body as I move. Gracias, Alfons.✌️

Thank you! so much fun and freedom!

Thank you! I needed that.

Loved video because it made me feel great after really stiff, painful neck and shoulder.

Hie Alfons! It’s me again! Your books arrived! By the way, the exercises are “addictive “ . U keep rocking n rocking n soon it becomes a rhythmic pattern that u don’t want it to end..... Keep rocking Alfons!!

Marvelous, it hurt a great deal at first but I could feel my neck relaxing after a while, thank you so much.

Thanks Alfons!

Love it. Thanks

thank you so much! you are a lovely teacher. and i'm going to watch every video because it is helping me so much with my chronic hip pain and neck pain coming from my post surgery on my fifth meta tarsal. I would like to be a teacher like you. thank you! vielen dank! alles gute

@ImprovingAbility

7 жыл бұрын

thank you ! I'm glad you find my videos useful. Alles Gute ! :-)

love it love it love it!

Wonderful exercise, Thank you once again. I am learning to slow down, concentrate and most of all, enjoy my body movement.

wow this was great ,Loved hugging myself ,so gentle relaxing my nose quit running and i am no sneezing anymore

Totally agree with your statement re the stretching and strengthening. A totally misguided paradigm. Thanks for the wonderful vid. I like your teaching style. Yup, NO RULES.

Thank you so much Alfonso. I love this lesson. It felt as if a couple of decades worth of tension in my eyes and jaw was being softened. Bloody hell! How does that happen? So nice. Thanks

amazing i dont believe my neck is so much better it doesnt even hurt any more thank you Alfons

Thank you so much for this Alfons!! I 've been feeling a contracture between the muscles of the right side of my neck and the ones from my right upper back... And your exercises have helped me a lot... I still think I will go and see the doctor but most of the anxiety it causes me has decreased and also I move and feel much better, thank you truly!

@ImprovingAbility

4 жыл бұрын

thank you 😊 good thinking, please don’t cancel your doctor appointment because of me

GREAT STUFF!!!... Bodyworker I am constantly giving rotational exploration to my clients. I will def refer them to your BOOK!!!! and this freebie. Thank you for your generosity!

Hi Alfons Thank you for your prompt reply ! I will find the exercises you suggested and get back to you. With Gratitude Gabriela

Brilliant!!!!

I enjoyed doing this lesson Alfons. It seems we all have dinner kind of physical problem. Mine is in the neck shoulders front and back. Doing more of the movement, trying to figure out what this is. You're greatly appreciated.

Thank you so much! I feel better!!!

Dear Alfons -- I just did this lesson last night (you know my back problem). It helped me so much that I am going to give it to my class this morning. I appreciate the way you support finding the luxuriating movement that most people forget we can have. I teach that way too.

@ImprovingAbility

8 жыл бұрын

thank you for your feedback Carole ! This is one of my go to lessons, a lessons I keep coming back to again and again. I too find it has a soothing effect for back trouble, and I teach parts of it in FI as ATM element often.

@lovetoplayharp

6 жыл бұрын

I agree with Carole! Alfons, I love the way you encourage the enjoyment of movement!

I had given up on my body. It was stiff and painful everywhere. I finished the introductory videos (two iterations) and my pain is at 30% of what it was. Thank you ...... a lot.

I have hope. Just hearing your voice. Now to do the movements. 🙏

I love your video's. Your way of talking & doing is so relaxing. As I have had many injuries, things easily hurt. I've been doing Qi Gong for a few years, this is more fun!

Great stuff man. Enjoying from antigua

It made me cry 😍

Nice

Alfons, this has really helped so much with my chronic neck pain. Nothing else have given me so much relief. You’re an angel! And such a wonderful teacher. Thank you so much, truly.

Thank you Afons for this perfect lesson. I went a long bike ride 1.5 hours after this lesson and my neck moved freely, my hip was not sore. Im learning so much about movement. Please tell me if you sleep on your back without a pillow.

@ImprovingAbility

7 жыл бұрын

Hi, good to hear :-) Uhm mostly I sleep without pillow when I'm on my back. I have like 3-5 different types of pillows in my bed and use them as they "float by".

Hi Alfons! I just anderstand now after have been doing Many time That lesson! This lesson is for free the chest :))) ! The mouvements start in the chest ! It´s hard to andertand a beginning if you have a problem in the chest ( T-spine ) ! If we move only the feet my t-spine ( chest) don 't move :)) ! It ´s better for me to concentred of the twisting and now l feel the chest move and l put less effort of my feet :)) Thank Alfons ! Good lesson !

@ImprovingAbility

8 жыл бұрын

+Sabrina B good observation! happy you like this lesson and play with it a lot. I life in Austria and when I was young I spent many hours in the forest. There I made an observation: when I stay in one place, for example just look under a tree, the longer I look, the more I discover.

Dear Alfons, Thank you so much for your generous, interested(you are so interested in what you do and in all of us who you do not know or see)way of sharing and teaching. Your lessons are very helpful and fun to do. I wish I could go to Portland for your meet up... I am wondering if you can say more or have more suggestions for lessons that calm the vagal nerve stress and relieving PTSD responses in the body. Help for sleep too... Have you done the jaw tension lesson in English yet? with much gratitude, Katherine

Very good lesson. I proposed this lesson to my students and they appreciated very much. Thank you, Alfons

@ImprovingAbility

8 жыл бұрын

+Caterina Pisu good to know, thank you for the feedback ! :-)

I made a very bad decision a month ago. I stopped doing my morning Feldenkrais movements because I was just feeling very lazy. As a result of that, I now have annoying discomfort in some muscles and my flexibility has diminished. LESSON WELL LEARNED!

@ImprovingAbility

5 жыл бұрын

My dear, this is to be seen. I “learn” this lesson several times per year 😅😆

Love your videos Alfons and find them very helpful. My problem seems to be with my upper arm rather than my shoulder or neck - though the neck is starting to feel some aches now too. Have you any videos for the upper arms (I did practice your frozen shoulder video and though I love it have not felt much relief) Any suggestions?

@ImprovingAbility

5 жыл бұрын

Hi, impossible to say without seeing you in person. However, did you try the movements of this video in "slow motion". Best learn them by heart and then go in your own time, extra slow, feel gravity, let yourself be heavy and really lying down your arms, also focus on the rotation movements of the arms. Again, this would be best under my guidance, but see how the movements here can help. You might also want to try arm circles in side lying.

hi alfons. what do you recommend for frozen sboulder

Dear Alfons, THANK YOU!!! for your time to do this lessons. They are helping me greatly. Can you suggest some movements for PLANTAR FASCILITIS?? I can hardly walk, specially first thing in the morning. Thank you again GABRIELA KRIVOSIJA. Love & Gratitude!

@ImprovingAbility

8 жыл бұрын

thank you for the feedback +Gabriela Krivosija :-) Have you already tried my video "Help with Sciatica, Achilles pain, stiff calves and feet" and my knee health exercise videos? You might need to practice 20 min or more per day for a couple of days. Exercise minimally, which means VERY SMALL and SLOW movements, slower and smaller than I show it. Then tell me about the results

Another brilliant lesson! Thank you a thousand times Alfons🙏🏻 I have just come across your videos two days ago. I wonder if there are specifics for tricep tendonitis and bicep tendinitis. My husband and I developed the problem within months of each other. Why so, 🤔?

@ImprovingAbility

3 жыл бұрын

huh, that is a good question! Maybe there is a common cause?

That was amazing. I will keep doing this for a while till my left shoulder is as comfortable as my right. Thank you so much Alfons, you are an important part of my life, too long neglected! (NB I tried to buy a thank you, but the transaction was declined, twice ... have you other methods for making a contribution?)

@ImprovingAbility

2 жыл бұрын

Dear Janet, that’s very sweet of you, thank you for your support! Sorry to hear the Super Thanks did not work (it’s a new KZread feature and it seems like they need to work on it some more). The easiest way would be Paypal, even though they take 6%. Another option would be to become a patron on Patreon.com for a month, with a pledge amount that suits your idea of financial support. You can cancel Patreon at any time. Btw, I have several shoulder videos on KZread, similar to this one, just browse through my video list and see what seems to appeal to you. Thank you again! Keep making those improvements!

@blaggie2

2 жыл бұрын

@@ImprovingAbility seems the problem was with my bank, thinking there was something strange. They should solve it soon. If not, I'll do paypal.

@blaggie2

2 жыл бұрын

@@ImprovingAbility Dear Alfons, I am definitely getting improvement in a very long-term neck/shoulder pain/stiffness. I find this set of 3 exercises very good, and also the ones in your Getting Better Day by day series. My question is, which would you say (of these and any other lessons), would be the most foundational for 'teaching' my neck and shoulders how to be their best. I'd like to just stick with the best set for a little while.

@luyzqint3760

Жыл бұрын

@@blaggie2 how long have you done them, are you keep seeing improvements?. I have an issue on my neck, thoracic 1 and right shoulder, I hope this can help me.

Hi Alfons. I have been doing your Getting Better Day by Day lessons but I have trouble when it comes to lying on my front. I have lower back pain and I find the extension of the back working in this way puts a strain on my lower back and aggravates the pain. It's a question about movements that feel natural and welcome to my body and others that feel uncomfortable. Sometimes I make myself persevere with the lesson (e.g. Help with Sciatica) and I find I work through the pain and feel better afterwards. But the back extension of lying on my front is too much. I'm glad you recommended to someone in the same situation to check out your Relief for Shoulder and Neck lessons. I did those and they feel just wonderful, my body wants to do that, it feels so natural. What is your advice about whether to persevere with the more challenging lessons which I fear may cause some damage..

Hello, Alfons. One more question: can I do this lesson along, or do I need to do all 3 (I love this lesson)?.

@ImprovingAbility

Жыл бұрын

I usually do only the third one for myself, when I have neck pain… but it’s good to know all three

Hi Alfons, how many times a week would you recommend this for a frozen shoulder?

@ImprovingAbility

3 жыл бұрын

I recommend to start with more gentle lessons first, for example “Relax your eyes in 21 one steps”. After that “Getting better day by day 5, wrist”. Then the first 2 videos of this series. I think every day multiple sessions of several minutes would be best, don’t do too much but not too little either. Build these “restorative” movements into your movement repertoire and daily habits. Good luck and have fun exploring!

Ah ah ahah! So Fanny so right :)) Alfons , l Will tell you a very 2 Technical question for a master feldenkrais :) My T-spine , my lumbar-spine are twisted to the right, then my sacrum too up to my head . It Is for that l feel , l need to oil all my spine :)) your lesson 1 and two , l fell those lessons are for That :) to work the lesson to the right fell nice to decrease my spine ! Question 1 : The best way is to work in the both side for my problem?! Question 2 : better to focus to the lesson 1 after to do lesson 2 or to do both of then?!!

Loved the variation of moving the foot around - never came across that before :)

感谢您把费登奎斯传递给更多人，我最近一直在练习，并且感觉到越来越好。中国现在有两家公司开展费登奎斯培训，他们现在有些纠葛，两家都声称自己是经过澳大利亚费登奎斯协会的认证的，费登奎斯的授权让我感到有些困惑，我知道您和中瑛普拉提有合作，我想听听您的看法，谢谢。

@ImprovingAbility

4 жыл бұрын

Hi there 😊 In Europe, Australia, and USA there are more than 10 companies offering Feldenkrais trainings. Currently in Europe alone there are more than 30 trainings running (Europe is much smaller than China). None of the companies are fighting. The training in Shanghai is accredited by the AusTAB in Australia, they comply with all the rules and regulations, and the Shanghai students will have smooth studying. For the latest news please stay in contact with 中英普拉提

@ImprovingAbility

4 жыл бұрын

For the list of AusTAB accredited trainings please see here www.feldenkrais.org.au/become-a-practitioner

And from cleverly breaking my fall 2 years w the back of my head this is sovereign for the neck lockup as a residue

@ImprovingAbility

7 жыл бұрын

Note to self: 1. do not fall, especially not onto head 2. if I do, add Feldenkrais with Alfons to the rehab interventions

@fatandy63

7 жыл бұрын

I've always admired skateboarders for their lack of falling

@ImprovingAbility

7 жыл бұрын

"lack of falling" ... that's something skydivers will never have, no matter how hard or often they train

@fatandy63

7 жыл бұрын

My departed Dad 'took a government check for jumping out of planes in 1944. When others wanted to continue 'skydiving' after 1945 my Dad's reply was he was ready to jump out of planes as a job not for recreation. '

does we lose body weight with this

@ImprovingAbility

4 жыл бұрын

the lesson is 28 minutes. if you don’t eat in this time you can save some calories. other than that calorie usage is the same as during light movement, no cardio. bottom line: no (sorry to say)

I anderstand why my old dead very good ostéopath told me work only my spine ! I don't andertand because l was pain in my low back and left knee and left ankle :((( He always tell me : work your spine at home , not your buttock and legs!your spine is like a corkscrew, you can't do nothing if you don't deal with That first :(( thanks Alfons, thinks feldenkrais to find some solutions for twisted back ! My spine is like a CORKSCREW , help :((((

Feldenkrais is neuromuscular training and re-education not an exercize. It's why Moshe Feldenkrais called them lessons. 😮 SMH