Stewart Hamblin The Feldenkrais Way and Fit Sit
Stewart Hamblin The Feldenkrais Way and Fit Sit
Hey guys!
For those of you who don't know me, my name is Stewart Hamblin, and I am a UK based author, Feldenkrais practitioner, founder of the Fit Sit program, and movement specialist based in the UK.
I help people who have struggled to improve their movement using traditional forms of exercise to change the way that they move for the better so that they can lead the lives that they want to well into their senior years.
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Hi Stuart, I have been practising a few of your lessons for rehabilitation after my hip replacement. I am amazed I can even do most of this lesson which is a testament to their effectiveness. This one is sublime! I have such a feeling of well being afterwards body and mind. Thank you so much for these wonderful lessons!
@@gillianmeadow3932 That is wonderful Gillian and I am so pleased that the lessons have helped. Thank you for sharing your story 🙏😊
Wonderful!
@@seekingthequestion Thank you 🙏😊
What a marvelous lesson! I enjoyed it very much! And I found a wonderful way to slow it down... by using the playback speed options, slowed it down to 0.75x :). Delightful!
@@arpita3727 Thanks so much Arpita. I do the same with Spanish language videos to help me learn the language 😊
Your donate button worked today… I did your video today and was grateful that you created it.. for some reason this is my favorite video of your hips series. Take care..
Thank you so much Beatriz. I really appreciate it. I love this lesson too. Very best wishes Stewart
Thank you Stewart! These lessons are life changing! 💝🌈🙏
You are very welcome Ben. I am glad they are helping 😊
Ps I love your designs
Wonderful lesson!
I enjoy your lessons and the clear instructions. Thank you.
Thanks so much Lesley 🙏
Can you please make a video to fix left aic pattern.. 🙏
Let me give it some thought.
Thank you so much for sharing with lesson. I am learning so much and am most grateful
You are very welcome Shelley 🙂🙏
This one seems to work for shoulder stabilization and differentiation. Working with a winged scapula due to long thoracic nerve palsy staus post fall with injury to neck. Any other recommendations specifically for seratus anterior
Thanks Russell. I don't have any videos specifically for SA
Still loving it! Hello from California!
Hi Michelle, we have sunshine here too today!
Really helpful!
Thanks so much Michelle 🙏
Hi Stewart. It’s been a while, I had done this video many many times when I was in a lot of pain.. I have gotten a lot better and stronger so I moved on to weights, walking and riding my bike. I was recommending your video to a friend bc it helped me so much. Today, I did my weights video but tried your video after and boy was I tight. It relaxed my hips and back and it felt wonderful. I was asking myself why I had stopped doing this video and it’s bc I got better. But I will add it back to my weekly rotation bc I still need it… thank you again for your wonderful videos and the very detailed instructions which keeps us from harming ourselves. I see your ads until the end bc you deserve it…hope it helps.
Dear Beatriz, it's wonderful to hear from you and thank you so much for sharing. In my own practice I often come back to all these lessons to reset, relearn and release. I wish I had more time to make some more. A plan for the summer! Thank you too for putting up with the adds. Every little helps. Wishing you a wonderful week ahead 🙏
Btw. I tried your PayPal donate button. I was able to enter the amount but I never received confirmation. That was this morning from my iPad. In the afternoon I checked and nothing went thru so I tried several times from my iPhone. It’s like the transaction never completes. You either will get nothing or several donations. Will see. But I don’t think it’s working.
@@beatrizordonez7155 Thank you so much for trying Beatriz. That's really kind of you. I don't think the button is working so will have a look at it. Nothing has come through but if I see tomorrow that multiple donations have come through I will make sure you are refunded! 🙏🙏🙏
Love it!
Thanks Michelle 🙏😊
Once again, thank you ever so much for your Feldenkrais videos.
You are always so very welcome Cecilia. I hope you are well 🙏
Really enjoyed this lesson. It’s my first time listening to you and I’m really enjoying it. Thank you!
Thank you so much and a very warm welcome to the channel 🙏😊
Wow! Great lesson. Thank you. Greetings from Melbourne Australia. ♥️🙏
Thanks so much Kaye from a cold and windy UK!
Wow wow ! intend to try this one again with slow attention…Hope I didn’t do too much. I wanted to keep going and going to get longer. 😄
I am glad you enjoyed the lesson Ursula. It's a favourite of mine 😊
Wonderful lesson for moving the spine. As a person with a functional scoliosis, I can appreciate increasing the mobility of the spine and ribs.Thank you!
You are very welcome Audrey. I am glad you found the lesson helpful 🙏
Question for you Stewart. While doing this lesson I have caught myself over and over with the shoulder trying to inch it’s way up toward my ear as I open or retract the shoulder or to slide the upper hand forward over the bottom hand. Why I wonder? I need those upper traps to relax but they keep wanting to involve themselves. 🤨
Hi Ursula, thanks for the message. What you describe is very common. We tend to overuse our traps and other neck muscles to move the arms rather than supporting them from our pelvis and core. The fact that you are becoming aware of your pattern is brilliant though. Once you have this awareness you have the possibility of change. One way of working with this is to go with the pattern. Over emphasize it rather than fight it and see how you respond. Another way is to really begin to explore where else could you initiate the movement from. It might be your pelvis, spine or the ribs on the underneath side that are in contact with the floor. All are possibilities. Please do let me know how you get on. Above all else be kind to yourself and give yourself permission to get things 'wrong' 😊🙏
Thank you, this makes sense to me. If I struggle to move my shoulders without using upper traps in no gravity while lying down no wonder I am in such hell being upright in the world. Please keep telling me change is possible 😄as I feel hopeless at times.@@stewarthamblin
Thank you so so much. I’m a climber, and after climbing too hard both my shoulders came a bit out of their sockets and wouldn’t sit in right. No improvement for two weeks and I was getting desperate. I’ve spent the last three days working through your videos and my shoulders are much improved. I really appreciate your work.
Thank you so much for your message. It's wonderful to hear about your progress and I am so pleased that the lessons have helped 🙏😊
This was another great lesson. The counter-movements are challenging, but I’m learning to feel what is happening in my trunk and core. I have had tendonitis in my shoulder that has not completely healed in two years, so I will see how this feels afterwards. Thank you, Stewart.
You are very welcome Denise. I really appreciate the way that you are embracing the lessons 🙏😊
So pleasant I fell asleep twice. Hahahaha!
I have one student Michelle who uses my videos for that very purpose! 😂
Hi Stewart- I find this lesson so helpful. This time when I finished, the arm I'd been working began to tremble uncontrollably. I just wanted to ask about that. Also when working with my shoulders- like doing the stabbing to one side then the other- they can kind of clunk around . Not cracking but clunking. It doesn't hurt. I don't know if it's bone on bone, or bones and tendons or just tight muscles. I can't think of a good way to describe it- but if it sounds familiar to you and you have any ideas I'd be open to hear. And Happy Easter. Thanks for your new lovely stick classes.
Hi Evan, it is wonderful to hear from you and I am thrilled that you are enjoying the stick lessons. I have had a lot of fun developing them and am currently working on a stick series to help pickleball players with injury prevention. I think the issue with trembling and clunking may well be related and if I were able to see you I would be very interested in looking at how you are moving and what is happening with your alignment and ribs. The best advice I can perhaps offer you is to have it checked out by your physician or physiotherapist as there are so many things that it could be.
@@stewarthamblin Hi Stewart, Thank you for your feedback. I appreciate it. I've heard that pickleball injuries are one of the primary reason that people go to the ER in the US- so your new series sounds very timely! Best wishes, Evan
This was amazing! I started with a huge gap in my lower back but towards the end my lower back was much closer to the floor. Thank you for a wonderful lesson!
You are very welcome Jennifer. Am so happy the lesson helped 😊🙏
Thank You for this beautiful lesson, I like the way You carry on the lesson! Amazing results on my body|
Thank you very much Pen😊
I don't mind responding at all. Am always interested in students progress 😊 I absolutely do believe the stick lessons will help with those issues.
Thank you 🍀🌼, next time I will start with lying on my right side, as my weaker side is left, and I wonder how different left will feel. I feel definitely lighter on both anyway 🎉 Some teaches are mostly doing the exercises from sitting position, could your lesson be done from floor sitting position, please? ( I sometimes get headaches if i lie down too long but i love your lessons tremendously and don't want to switch to another practitioner as they don't have such straightforward classes ❤)
Hi Poczytam, thank you for the message. If it feels better for you doing the lesson in sitting then I would definitely try that. I have taught similar movements as part of my Fit Sit lessons. Have you given any of the Fit Sit stick classes a try? I think you might find them very interesting
@@stewarthamblin thank you, I will have a look, although I am mostly focused on mobility of my hips and shoulders as they're the biggest problem areas causing me migraines. Do you think the Fit sit classes would also help to retrain and improve mobility in hips and shoulder - if you don't mind me asking, I'll understand if you are too busy to answer 🍀☺️
Amazing, ny left side, shoulder to the hip is clicky and uncomfortable at times, and after this lesson the final left hip movement was smooth 🎉❤
Thank you again Poczytam. I love all the lessons in the Happy Hips series 🙏😊
Hi, I enjoyed this lesson and will follow all your videos. I particularly like the format of your longer classes, as doing it at the same time with you allows understanding the movement. Please don't stop commenting, this is a vital part of teaching, without your guidance, the students who moan now, wouldn't now know how to do the movement, I really don't understand how can one expect the teacher to teach without talking 🤦🏻♀️🍀🌼
Thank you so much Poczytam. I really appreciate your feedback and I am very glad that you are enjoying the lessons. Have a wonderful Easter weekend.
wonderful💙💙
Stewart my neck, head and shoulders are so tight right now that I’m having anxiety in my body for days now. Which of your lessons online would u suggest right now? Thank you as always for the gift of your teachings on here.
Hi Ursula, this lesson would be a good place to start, followed by Neck and Shoulder relief, and ungluing the shoulders. Be patient and kind to yourself and give yourself time to heal. Please do let me know how you get on. You can always send me an email.
@@stewarthamblin the un gluing lungs one I assume you mean
Yes 😊
Just did it. To keep that expansive feel while standing will be the ultimate challenge for me…my muscles are so exhausted. It was calming and I tried not to obsess over doing it completely correctly which helped a lot I think. 🤗@@stewarthamblin
Wow, another great lesson. Thank you, Stewart! This one really helps me feel muscles going from my hip to my breast. My spine is feeling so supple, though I have to remember to pull in my lower abdominal muscle to protect tenderness in my lower spine. My doctor says it's arthritis, but your lessons are really helping me! I tell all of my friends about your lessons!
Thanks so much Denise. It's a very powerful lesson. Am so pleased you approach the lessons carefully
Hey Stewart Greetings from Nova Scotia I absolutely LOVE all your comments and observations and it has helped me connect so much better to my body so please Don't stop being you You are great teacher and bring great passion.
Thank you so much Rachel, that is super kind of you to say so. I have always wanted to visit NS but didn't manage it on my trip to Canada. Wishing you and your family a wonderful Easter 😊🙏
Another great lesson. Thank you Stewart! I’ve had frozen shoulder on both side, so these lessons really help!
That's so wonderful Denise. Have a lovely weekend. It looks as though Spring is finally arriving here 😊
Brilliant! I just recommended your site to another friend who has had problems with her left arm elbow joint since she caught covid last year. She has lost a lot of muscle from disuse and will be doing some therapies after an injection to reduce swelling. I think this would be a good place for her to start since it's so gentle. Thank you!
Thank you so much Michelle. I really appreciate you taking the time to write and for your kind words. I wish your friend all the best in their journey into recovery 😊🙏
Thank you again from Switzerland ! This is a very lovely lesson, Stewart, although I felt vertigo when trying to lift my head. Could you please do some sessions for vertigo? Thanks! ☺️
Hi Denise, I am so pleased you like the lesson. It's one of my favourites. Will try and find some time for vertigo lessons but I would also respectfully suggest that the stick lessons might be of interest. Certainly they have helped one student of mine who suffers a lot from the condition 😊🙏
Great lesson, helps me very much. Thank you!!!
Thank you Kiriaki! You are very welcome 😊
Thank you so much for sharing this. I keep on coming back this lesson, it really helps
Thanks so much Shelley. I never tire of this lesson. It's so rich in terms of its teaching
lovely
Thank you very much for sharing these exercises . I just did them for the first time. I’m hoping they will help me with an overlapping pinky toe.
You are very welcome Alan. If you get a chance to explore some of the stick lessons, you will find lots of exercises for your feet, knees and hips and a lot more besides 🙏
@@stewarthamblinthank you very much Stewart. I will explore these with great interest!
Great stuff! I've recommended your channel to friends! One of them said your shoulder videos have helped a ton!
Thanks so much Michelle, that's super kind 🙏
@@stewarthamblin My husband finally tried one for his shoulders too! Yay! You are helping the world!
That's wonderful to hear Michelle ❤
Beautiful symphony of the Feldenkrais work (pleasure)
Thanks so much Murray 😊
Yee, another DELICIOUS lesson! This one even helps my shoulder pain from frozen shoulder injury two years ago! Thank you so much, Stewart! 🙏😀
You are very welcome Denise. This too is a favourite of mine 🙏😊
Thank you again, Stewart. I try to start my day with you, and at 72, despite some scoliosis, my body feels more flexible and integrated than ever in my life! Have a wonderful day? ❤
Thanks so much Denise! Have a lovely day too. I am teaching a Stick workshop this morning and they are always a lot of fun 😊
Dear Stewart, thank you for another yummy lesson. I have tried some of your other lessons too, and this one has brought me new movements and feelings I have never felt before! Thank you from Switzerland! I will certainly continue to follow you, and tell my friends about you and your work! 😀
Thank you so much Denise for spreading the word. That's super kind. I was lucky enough to study in Neuchâtel for part of my degree. Such happy memories 😊
Thanks from Memphis, TN. USA. This lesson will definitely help me achieve fitness goals for my 60th birthday in 2025!!!😊
Thanks so much Audrey. Those are great goals to have. If you haven't explored the Fit Sit Stick lessons yet I think you might find them very helpful in achieving those goals 😊🙏
Just discovered your super channel. I wish I could get into the start position. I.m kinda leaning back at 45 degrees.
Welcome to the channel Victor and thank you. If you haven't exploded some of the Fit Sit Stick videos yet, I would recommend them. They include some great ways of preparing the hips and spine for the floor work
@@stewarthamblin Cheers Stewart ...thnx for the pointer! Much appreciated
Enlightening! Thank you Stewart!
This is helping me find ease and connection after a hip replacement. Thank you! I always enjoy your lessons and find great benefits.
Thank you so much Gillian. If you haven't yet tried some of the Fit Sit Stick lessons, I think you will find them very helpful for your rehabilitation.