Taro, I love this channel as you have a brilliant way of teaching these mobility movements. I'm sure many other arthritic and inflexible seniors feel the same. Thank you.
Thank you Taro for another wonderful flowing body movement exercise. You have a great way of explaining the way that bodies move and common pitfalls to be aware of.
Taro sensei. It is an amazing move I never did before. Very freeing. Thank you. Love your teaching! If I was living close, I would be attending your real sessions. But I live an ocean away. 😄
Yumi-san, You're welcome:) Glad you enjoyed the lesson! No worries, this is exactly why I've been creating online courses and classes so anyone from all around the world could take my courses/classes! I've had a few students from Australia:)
Its a wonderful experience as am feeling more flexible just by doing with you. My knees feel hurt but the lessons done regularly will have a good effect on knees too. Thank you very much
This video popped into my feed from somewhere. I have great difficulty getting up and getting down (to the floor). So I will subscribe and see what happens!
TY Taro. I found this one to be very relaxing for my hips. I had hip replacement Oct 2020 and the muscle and ligaments are still tight. But, when I focus on the movement , go slow and stay in my ROM and my pace, I’m surprised how quickly all the tightness releases . 🙏
Hi Mr. Iwamoto, Thx a lot for your dedication and great instructions. With your permission . I'd like to ask: what about a 10 mints routine that includes full-body movement?! THX🙏🙏
One side is easier, I am weak on the other (glutes and quads) and to pull my leg over the other leg, I am working hard. The return is no problem. Just keep practicing? My hips are learning all sorts of things through you! But I am particularly sore on one side now.
Hello Taro I have been following your videos for a while now and I find it very useful. I have been suffering from sacroiliac pain and dysfunction for 5years after I tore the anterior ligaments and muscle in a lift and twist gardening injury. I'm also experiencing piriformis syndrome after being dysfunctional for so long. Is the Feldenkrais Method suitable for me? I am 64 and have never been very sports minded though I love martial arts, yoga, walking, swimming and Bush walking. I have trouble maintaining a good level of stability and strengthening to my core and pelvic floor as I keep restraining myself. I have difficulty bending over can only reach down to about knee level. The pain radiates over the illiac arch down through the inguinal and femoral groin, into the side of the pubis down the inside leg knee and along the inside of the foot to the big toe, also around the hip joint. When I get up from resting I get all kinds of clicking cracking and clunking around the pelvis and my right foot when I start walking or even if I just massage my sacral area. I'm at the end of my rope here.
I think Feldenkrais Method is suitable for you. It'd be ideal if you can work with a local practitioner in person so he/she can tailor lessons to your needs.
@@TaroIwamoto Thank you, Taro for this sequence! I was a little apprehensive at first since it seemed a little too long for a warm-up. I've been doing this for almost 2 weeks and my lower back is feeling great, as well as my weak ankles (due to an excess of calf work 🤪) Thank you so much again!!🥰
Love your videos Taro. I have a question maybe you can help me answering it. I spoke to a PT and he told me that once your bones and your spinal structure is “manifested” there is not much one can do it improve it. But is it? I wonder if this is true…so if you maybe have a bad posture like a round back is there really no way to improve it and restructure the spine into a better position through exercise and movement? I also read that often times only surgery can help :/
Although you cannot undo arthritis, degenerative changes, movement retraining can prevent or at least reduce stress to the areas that have led to structural changes. Even if you opt in a surgery, your habitual movement patterns are likely to remain, so either way, it's important and helpful to retrain movement patterns to improve quality of movement and remove/reduce stress to the areas.
The medical system recommended spinal surgery numerous times (and knee-hip-shoulder & others) after being hit by a car as a pedestrian. They said I'd never walk on my own. I declined ALL surgeries & walk perfectly fine. Still today--According to the medical opinions based upon diagnostic imagery (MRI's, x-rays, ultrasounds...herniated-slipped-compressed discs & nerves...) I should not be able to walk on my own & without a lot of pain. 🙃 I practice yoga, swim & cycle & dance whenever I can to stay independantly mobile. 😊🤗
Hi Taro, Did you copy this movement from your son? Surely he is your best teacher. Since I do your exercises for 2 months, my pain and numbness in my legs and toes diminish drastically. Yes, when our neck, shoulder, spine, hip are in alignment, pain disappear. We can be our own chiropractor. I have a question: when I do yard work, I have to bend down sometimes to pull weed or empty the bag of grass from lawn mower. Will this affect my posture and damage my spine? Or feldenkrais will correct the damage? Any other way to clean garden? What would you do? Thank you.
haha, probably:) to me, it's a question of how we carry out functional tasks, how we move. Whether you stress your back or not depends on how you move, thus, I'm all about retraining movement patterns. It's not about correcting the damage. If you catch a fire, you want to put out the fire, not let it continue, or pour gasoline into the fire. If you are moving in a way that is stressing your back, you want to change how you move so you stop stressing your back. I never think about correcting the structures. I only think about improving movement patterns. As simple as that. Fortunately our bodies are integrated and connected, so if we work on improving movement patterns, we should be able to improve whole body.
@@TaroIwamoto ok, I will not bend down to cut or pull the weed anymore. I will stand and use the shovel or trimmer. And I can spray vinegar to kill the weed, standing. I will not wait until the grass get too long to mow. That way I don't have to empty the bag many times. Improve the movements, not damage the body and then try to correct. Do not pour gasoline on the wood and then try to put out the fire. Prevention is better than healing. But don't you think that the Creator created the spine flexible so that we can bend forward? In yoga and pilate, they bend forward a lot. I am confused. Please clarify for me. Thank you.
@@ThuLe-eh1xe those can be good strategies. I also want to clarify that I did not imply that bending down is a bad movement and you should not do. Bending down is a functional movement we often use in daily activities. Thus, i have made several videos on bending patterns. Improving bending and unbending patterns is essential, and is one of the most important movement patterns in my opinion.
Hi Taro. Loved this. However, when I transition to my knees I find my knees close together. It isn’t uncomfortable but I am wondering how to keep the distance between the knees when I transition on knees and hands.
I have a question, I have piriformis syndrome in my left leg, when I do most forms of exercise and esp cat cow type exercises and twists it makes my leg worse. Any ideas as I like doing movement.
1:06 you need to have good wrist joints to do this exercise. Is there any effective way to improve flexibility of wrist joints and recover from trigger fingers without surgery or steroid injection?
This exercise is gracefully presented; I’m sure that many people will benefit from doing it. However, I imagine that Feldenkrais would comment, “It’s all very nice, but it is not Feldenkrais.” Why? Because it is not designed for people to make discoveries.
Thank you! My movement teaching is influenced by Feldenkrais method, however, I wouldn't say I'm teaching Feldenkrais Method. That said, I still believe that when people move slowly and attend to their body, they will make discoveries.
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