Please notice how much of this can be done from bed. Or without even raising your head. Please don't wait to get better before beginning your movement practice. It just doesn't work that way. You will get better as you train. I promose there is all kinds of hope, y'all.

Finally, something that feels empowering and that I am not terrified of injury. Thank you!

2:19 is where the workout starts

I could cry with happiness. I’m so glad I found your videos! Please keep posting these EDS videos, it’s saving my body from pain and dislocations daily.

The Physical Therapist that I have been working with found your channel. We viewed this video in my session today, and I am doing modified versions of a few exercises that you showed. I am 46 and was diagnosed 13 years ago. I have never found PT to be particularly helpful until now. I am so grateful for this Angel of a man who is trying to help me, and thankful to you for putting yourself out there to help us Zebras! You are appreciated more than you could possibly know. 🦓 🖤🤍

This is extremely helpful. I'm just starting out using Pilates to help rehabilitate my EDS, but find most Pilates beginners tutorials are too advanced. Content like this makes building a solid foundation feel more achievable.

I know this video is older but I just started today this routine, along with my physical therapy for ulnar tunnel syndrome(trying to sneak in more exercises while Im already building pt routine) and I was laughing so much because of how much I was shaking during these! Im so excited I could cry 😅 You know its bad bad when youre shaking a lot and can barely get 10 reps in before failure. Im gonna do this every day and see how much better and more control I can get with my body. I eventually wanna start hiking and running so this is a great first step.

I was diagnosed with hEDS in March, but because of the coronavirus I haven't been able to start physical training or have any kind of exercise training that is specifically for hyper mobile joints. I am really grateful to videos like this which help me exercise without causing damage while I await starting PT :)

i have eds and love yoga! thank you for making yoga accessible to disabled people :)

Thanks for this! I was just diagnosed and have back and shoulder pain. With the pandemic I obvi can't go out for exercise so this is very helpful!

Thank you for this. Just diagnosed with EDS after 28 years of pain and you've given me a place to start with strenghthening.

this was excellent, thank you ! amazing how such small movements really made a huge difference.

Thank you Kelly. Upper back exercises so helpful. Really appreciate these. Brilliant! 💚

Kelly you are a queen! Thank you so much for posting this and continuing to make these! I have EDS too and it can be so tricky to find exercises that don't aggravate what I'm trying to help. Can't wait to make a routine of what you're teaching and start feeling better!

wow, that's a great video!

Thanks so much for these videos! I've been struggling with the symptoms of EDS & POTS since I was quite young, but I was only diagnosed 2 1/2years ago, at 36 for EDS & last month for POTS. I've always struggled against my body, fighting it to do what I wanted, assuming my fatigue and pain were laziness or some kind of psychological issue. I've found it really difficult to balance exercise (I either go too hard and injure myself, or too soft with little benefit) I'm going to start using this exercise regime every day & film it all so I can chart my progress and review my form easily. I am so grateful to you for putting this info out there, I'm getting little help from medical professionals as there's so little understanding of the condition.

Thank you so much. I appreciate this more than you know!

Brilliant video with great exercises to do. Every morning I wake up feeling tired before I have done anything! This has helped already, I can feel the difference. Thank you so much! 🦓💚🦓

Thank you! These few exercises were perfect, my low back already feels better. Thank you for slowing it all down. Your clear explanations were great reminders. Wish I could take your class!! Please keep them coming :)

Thank you. Since covid my gym with the therapy pool has closed indefinitely and I needed something to help me get moving again to stabilize my joints. This is the perfect start.

Thank you so much !!!! Amazing for EDS!!!

Just found you and so happy! cant wait to start

I use your vids all the time. Due to corona I don't have any current physio, but even when I had physio I used to do these in replacement. Theses videos are honestly perfect for me. They get me moving without hurting me too much or making me wobbly or dizzy for days on end. Thanks for helping me and so many other people ❤️

Im so late but i just founf this today. Ive really been workingat getting stronger, just to try and get through life better. I felt a bit overextended in some places so ill definitely be working to try and make everything safe for my body. I was diagnosed with H-EDS at 5 years old so im fairly good at dealing with my body in its disability, but i still need tools like this to help me function! Thank you fo helping the community!!!

Wow, thank you :) I have hEDS and POTS but still manage to keep up a very active lifestyle participating in multiple sports, so even though these workouts weren’t particularly challenging I felt my spine just release when we came down from tabletop. I’m not feeling anything in my low back as I type this. It’s a miracle!

I’m so glad I found this.

Thank you so much! I've been doing pilates for a little while, but some of your prompts really helped me activate my core much more so than I've been doing before. As a result the movements were a lot more challenging!

I've been doing this class for about a week now. I have EDS and back arthritis. This has helped with it. Thanks.

Thank you so much!!

Kelly, i'm in the UK and moved to the countryside.....missing EDS support in London, feeling rather alone and very fragile after two babies. Delighted to have found you! Starting today :-)

Thank you so much for trying this! I really needed a mild beginning home workout routine. I tried modifying the Chloe Ting challenges and they were impossible for me. I got kind of down on myself because I have noticed some weight gain due to medications and I am currently living a very sedentary lifestyle since COVID. I am excited to start this regime and build up the muscle my rheumatologist, PT, and ortho are begging me to get.

i'm still waiting on my official heds diagnosis but this has made me feel so much more confident in working on my stability on my own. thank you so much!

I have hypermobility and fibromyalgia, because of this I did not exercise for many years due to the pain it would cause. Recently my doctor told me I desperately need to gain some core muscle, but having watched other videos have learned how to avoid using my core resulting in the usual pain. This video was very clear and focused on helping people like me who can move in different ways. After doing a few of your motions I could feel my core fire up! I will be watching this video for the next few weeks to help build core strength in a healthy painless way. Thank you!

This is really helpful. I have really underdeveloped muscle strength from hypermobility which I’ve been working on for years, and I still find the easiest things a challenge. But it’s nice to find a video that validates the journey we have to take.

This was amazing, thank you so much. I am 16 and suffering with so much pain in my back, hips and knees due to my hyper-mobility. This really released a lot of that pain.

This is awesome! I've been trying to get into pilates but popping out my hip and over extending my knee while doing a lot of those positions, so finding this is such a relief! Thank you!

Great video. Solid understanding of EDS related issues.

Oh it helps. Thanks 👍

Ohhh exciting just after finding this 😍 🦓🦓

Thank you!!!

Thank you for this! I have POTS and JIA and this has helped me tons. This is wonderful thank you so much 😊

So glad I found you. It's so hard to find resources for heds.

thank you from a fellow potsie!

I am currently trying to get my pain under control, I am also in the middle of getting a pots diagnosis and fed up of feeling like I cant do anything because of my joints and dizziness. Thank you so much for doing a video that shows exercises that are good for us bendies 🙂 Also I'm with you with the SI joint issues, 4months ago I was unable to walk as mine was subluxed for 3 weeks, never known pain like it and that's including 2 labours

Hi Kelly. I would love it if you could add all your EDS videos into your EDS playlist and it would be easier to find them all in one place and make sure I’m not missing any. Thanks so much for making these.

this looks so difficult omg :,))) I can feel my back and knees screaming just watching you... laying on that mat like that .... but I have to start somewhere... I'll try my best... I only recently am beginning to learn that my body isn't the way it should be. I'm still confused and shocked that other people don't get joint pain or pain from sitting or extreme discomfort from bending their knees... I didn't know it was possible to be in heaven 24/7?? that's really what it seems like.. imagine just not being in pain and being able to do things

Thankyou!!

love this so much

Fantastic. 😍 From a hyper mobile gal

thanks for also raising awareneas

as a 20 year old with dysautonomia this was VERY helpful. i’m always scared i will get TOO fatigued and feel bad after exercising.

Thank you. I am hyper moble, (don't know if I have EDS). At the onset of Corona, I started having terrible neck pain (more than usual) and when I could finally see my doctor I was told I have muscle trapezius trigger point, that I am getting a little relief from with chiro and massage therapy. He has me on traction which is causing new problems, so I'm going to back to ground zero for me and finding exercises for hyper mobility. Thank you!

Bless you I felt that but no like Terrible pain

This is extremely helpful, thank you so much! I just have one question - how do we know whether the "pain" we feel is the pilates working/appropriately challenging us, or whether we are damaging our joints? I am always really worried incase I am feeling the wrong kind of burn! Thank you

The fact that these exercises have felt so good as a hEDS beginner the last week, and today I was struggling to get through the video…hate flare ups 😞

Day 1!

Thanks for posting I have a few questions. I've been diagnosed with a bunch of things one of which is EDS/HSD. About a year ago now b4 Corona at the end of October 2019 my EDS, dizzy spells, fatigue and excruciating back pain and leg pain all flared up and pretty much ended me bedridden. I had to go to hospital around that time to rule out caude equina since I had all the symptoms. Thank G-D it wasn't but what they found was that I had something called epidural vascular congestion in my L5/S1 yet no one told me and I only found out from my discharge notes. It took me about 8 months of research to find out what this condition is but meanwhile I was left bedbound unable to move my left leg which reduced sensation in the leg and foot with a foot drop. I was almost told I was making it up, exaggerating (even though in the hospital I was told that the condition I have is excruciating without telling the name of the condition of course) or that its mental health (just because I have a mental health team). I've basically been completely bedridden for a year now. I started home physical therapy 4 months ago and thank G-D I'm able to sit up a bit now but still bedbound most of the time. My chiropractor has also been really helpful and with a few treatments over this time he has been able to get the pressure off the nerve. I'm on high pain meds all the time and a high dose of anti inflammatories which have really helped bring down the swelling in my low back. My main question is should physical therapy cause my sharp pains and joint pains to flare up because it does? Also my physical therapist keeps telling me that its it won't cause me any damage but I don't believe her since the pain is so unbearable and she almost forces me to do things I'm not ready for, like she is trying to force me to stand when I cant even roll onto my front by myself and all my muscles are so unbalanced. I know I have a weak core and weak hamstrings and my left leg is weak, not to mention my upper body joints that are unstable too and subluxe very often and I feel way too unsteady and unsable to be trying standing, yet shes strongly encourages me to stand and I end up in such severe sharp agonising pain for days afterwards. Is this normal cos it doesn't seem normal to me? My last question is I also find during my physio sessions and previously while exercising b4 I was bedbound that I'm fine while I'm exercising and I feel fine but after I've cooled down from the exercise the pain kicks in really really bad. So basically 20mins or so after I'm in absolute agony for the rest of the day or even days later up to 2 weeks. Have you ever heard of this b4 and if you have do you have any advice? Also how am I supposed to have proper warning signs of things going wrong if I only feel it afterwards? Any advice? Also have you got an email address that I can email you? P.s. So for the long message. I've had a really really tough year and still really struggling to get my basic needs met and the medical professionals sometimes are absolutely a waste of time cos they don't understand what its like to be chronically sick day in and day out. I'm from Manchester, England so health care here is all under the NHS so it's free but the waiting lists are far too long and you can't just go to any doctor you want like in other countries.

Best exercises I've found. But difficult to hear as talking fast and not too clear. I'm partially deaf but don't usually have s problem on you tube. Was loud enough.

I have been researching for years. I'm almost to the point of being bedridden. I need something to prevent that from happening. I started having symptoms at age 11 and wasnt diagnosed until age 22. My tendons and ligaments are in such bad shape. Physical therapy has always exacerbated my issues. Hopefully with your videos and modifications I'll be able to feel a difference

Hey Kelly! I also just found your videos, being bedridden with ME, and EDS and (endometriosis, PCOS) .. basically a shit show. I was wondering if you could shed any light on good positions to lie for the body as well as excercises for stabilizing the feet (mine seem to bend and crack in all directions)? Any input in welcome! Thank you!!!

Hi there! I really enjoyed your video about hyper mobility of the joints. Would any of these be helpful for my case. I have been clinically diagnosed with hyper mobility as well and My knees are a big problem for me but i did use to play high school basketball and torn my meniscus in my left knee. Besides that, even after playing basketball i still have bad knee pain and i try to workout but i haven’t found anything to ease the knee pain very much. i try doing squats and leg weightlifting and stretches but I’m definitely open to trying new things :)

Both I and my daughter have EDS with hyper-mobility. I also now have osteoporosis including spinal compressons which is being treated with Aclasta. My osteopath says I need Pilates adapted to my condition. For example, I cannot do twists as my core must be kept in line. As I live in rural France, this will have to be online which worries me a little as I could do more harm than good. I have exercised all my life until recently including Pilates and tai'chi. I think the yoga stretches were probably damaging! I have pain in my shoulders, elbows, hips, and knees, accumulated gradually over the years. X-rays show no bone problems in the joints; it is all the soft tissues, of course. Would an online course be safe for me?

Hi kelly! Thanks so much for this great exercise video. I have one question about the two fingers under your back ~15 min in. I find when I try to do that I arch my back more and then am getting lower back pain. Any suggestions? THANK YOU

This is great, but my tailbone is so bony! Is it ok to put a pillow underneath or do I ruin the form? My mat is just not cutting it!

Hello! my name is Ryan and i've recently been diagnosed with EDS, i was curious if you have anywhere i could reach out to discuss some of this exercise more? I've always been fit but this hit me like a train ha

This is super helpful, but I do have a question...when your knees are bent during most of the exercises(like the bridges or pelvic tilts), are your knees together or about hip width apart? And the part where your holding your knees up at 90 degrees, is your back flat to the floor or a gap? Thanks in advance:)

If I stretch too much it makes me joints hurt. Even if it's just a little, makes them pop out of place 🤣🤣🤣

I have left side pain under ribs either from redundant colon, Eds or something else. Newly diagnosed heds. When I bend right arm over, left side hurts worse. Thoughts? Left arm over is okay but still hurts but not worsened pain. And can feel the stretch but feels off afterwards.

I can barely keep up, and by body is SO tight... but I will keep trying. I'm crying that I can't get my leg anywhere close to straight and up in the air, so is it okay if BOTH legs are bent? I feel so weak...

Hi Kelly, thank you so much for providing this video as a resource for those of us suffering from EDS 🥰 I have a question, what is that syndrome you mention while doing Sphinx? The one where shoulders tend to round and extend your neck?

I have pain in so many areas (hips, low back, neck, shoulder, upper arm). Which video(s) should I be doing each day to address all of these problems at one time. Help!

Would this help me with arthritis joint pain particularly in the knees?

I can't do the pelvic curl...yet. I also find it really difficult to get up off the floor 😔

I can't get down on the floor, can I do these on a bed?

Hi Kelly this video was so helpful I recently discovered I'm hypermobile when I started having pain after working out and consulted a doctor ....I love pilates and it really helps strengthening the muscles...I wanted to know if it's okay to do HIIT if my knees are hypermobile?I like doing high impact but I worry about injuring my knees...I also wanted to achieve the spilts but it seems people who are hypermobile shouldn't stretch?I don't know I'm kinda confused...

Ugh, I can’t even do more than a few reps of gentle pelvic tilt :/

I’m looking for a local instructor for EDS. I am in NY, Orange County

Where is your practice located?

First of all, i could never sit cross legged like that.

I just learned I have H-EDS, but what is POTS?

When circling your legs flexed or pointed feet?

Hey do u do zoom class as well?

What syndrome are you referring to at 12:43?

Is it ok to use whey protein powder supplement if you have eds. I started working out so whey protein will really help me.

Thanks for putting out this video. I found it a little hard to follow as you speak quite quickly, there's a lot to take in.