Thank you Taro for this exercise. I love the gentleness of the movement and coordination of movement and breathing. It seems like a effort in balancing or harmonizing soul, through breathing and body, through movement.

This series does a great job of relieving my sciatica pain.

These videos are extremely good, Taro. I have been struggling with intermittent sciatic pain (sometimes very, very extreme and incapacitating) for the past 15 years. Most routines don't help at all... I just wait for weeks until the crisis subsides. This actually provided immediate relief. Of course the pain is not magically gone, but I can actually feel the release in my lower back. Thank you!

Very interesting! I found that my left hip was much more stiff than the right and quite resistant to relaxing- but it did, a fair amount. Another great exercise to add to my routine! Thank you so much. Edited to add that I discovered yesterday, while doing this exercise, that my left hip muscles are substantially weaker than the right hip. I'm a musician whose primary instrument, the hurdy gurdy, requires me to sit with the left leg lower than the right. I've been playing this way for about 25 years. I started out playing standing up but it wasn't practical for me in the long run so I sit to play. Right now sitting like this is extremely painful. I'm hoping these exercises can help ease the problem. Thanks again!

Ok this one now relieved the static pain while doing the movement. When I sat up it was very much still there but while breathing and moving it seemed to subside. I like this one.

This time I noticed a bit assymetric as on the right side of my pelvis I felt pain or pressure on a bone. But all in all it felt vey relaxing and pleasant.

This was much better than the bridge pose you don't use too much of the upper back strength by lifting upper body off the ground your movements sure help me a lot thank you!

Once again I love your teaching methods, I’ve learned so much from you and you make it fun.

This exercise #2 pressing foot down to the floor helps the pelvic to be aligned slowly. I am doing this exercise for 2 weeks, will continue to do the 4 exercises for sciatica. Thanks, Taro Iwamoto.

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I can certainly tell a great difference between my left side pelvis and my right side pelvis. Thank you.

Thank you so much! My lower back finally popped!! I feel so good now. God bless 😁

Such a simple movement pushing foot into floor resulting in pelvic rotation. Closing my eyes helped me sense the movement better. This video and #1 resulted in flattening if my low back arch and also my rib cage evened out (Usually left sits higher when I lie down as trunk habitually rotates to right). Thanks for sharing 🙏

Since I have started practicing your excercises regularly my back and leg pain has greatly subsided. I have more movement and flexibili. I am so glad I discovered your channel. Thank you for sharing your knowledge.

WoW! I can really feel my hips move more smoothly after doing these movements! Thanks, Taro!

As far as change goes, I didn’t feel any-yet. But WILL!

Thanks so much for these valuable videos. I have already learned so much about the functioning of my muscles and how it all connects. This one gave me instant relief, in my leg and glute muscles.

I have been doing your #1 exercise for about 5 days. Today is my first day adding #2. I feel my sciatic issue in my left heel and foot (painful tingling and numbness), and sometimes down my leg. I don't notice an improvement during exercise #1, but I think I might be seeing and improvement since I started doing it. Not as much as I would like, but still encouraging. I'm hoping that by adding exercise #2, the issue will improve even more. I really benefit from your pacing... the slowness supports me to go inward and deeply sense and be attuned to my body as I do the movements. Thanks so much.

I finally got back xrays because of lower back pain. I already had dexa as knew had osteoporosis. Back xrays showed scoliosis, degeneration, & mild fracture. I can't tell u how your videos help me. Your approach of mind to body corrections are literally amazing. Please do more videos on back pain (lower) and scoliosis. Right hip rolls very easy and smooth....left side didn't move as well. Thank you... I will do this every morning.

Thank you so much for sharing this special way of exercise! Since doing these 3 ( Breathing, ribs & feet) I have been able to calm my damaged left hip from a gym incident ( I enflamed the joint.) a little over 4 yrs ago. I sometimes 'catch' it & it gives me the same dull stab of pain. That pain has never changed in intensity. I'm used to it. However today I was out in the sun in our garden on our deck & my youngest son asked me if i could touch a high pipe running alone side of the roof of the house. ( I'm 6ft 3in) he is almost 6ft at 14. So I went on my tippy toes reached up & got the sharpest, electric most painful stab of pain in my left buttock. It took my breath away & I could hardly stand. I bent right over. It also affected my left leg but only from below the knee, in one spot not the whole leg...not painful but like a small area under the knee like I had clicked something. Within a minute I could walk ok so I thought I would do the 3 movements again to sort me out...I had actually just completed them 10 minutes earlier. After doing them I did feel better, & a bit more balanced as I walked up & down our deck. I have had about 5 or so of these very very sharp 'attacks' over the last 3 weeks. This is the first one I've had in 2 weeks since doing the 3 movement/exercises I found you & your methods. I'm wondering what I did to enrage my left hip just by stretching up...thought I'd share, there may be others with similar pain. Many thanks! Stay safe.

Didn’t think it did much but it relieve the pain in my heal🙏🏽

My right knee was way higher than my left at the beginning and my right pelvis wasn’t loading too much but at the end of the exercise it definitely balanced out a bit ! Thanks Taro

This has helped with the pain. Thank you! This is very similar to one of your scoliosis exercises, isn’t it? I have mild scoliosis and look forward to the MRT of my lower back.

This is very helpful.Thank you.

THANK YOU. I found relief!

You are an Earth 🌏 Angel 😇 . 🙏🏻

Dear Taro. I found these sciatic pain relief videos soooooo good. I've spondylolisthesis L4 I have had sciatica and piriformis pain for weekend felt misaligned, quite honestly. These exercises made me feel more aligned and comfortable ..idid from no2 thru 4 in one session and was much more aligned balanced and comfortable giving me an experience of my own body and how to align. Thank you very much.

Thank you…😊👍🏻

Yes, my belvis is more balnced after the session.bthank you.

My difficult side is my right shoulder on which I always carried my heavy bags.

Thank you!

Excellent!!!

Yes, my hips became balanced after this exercise! Should it be practiced daily? Also, where is the link to the guide please? Thank you for this video series.

The pain comes back when I end the exercise, as I can’t lie on my back without pain. It feels like my body wants to go into anterior pelvic tilt when I lie down and the muscles in the back feel contracted even when I try to relax. Also when I do the apt exercise I can feel my left hip flexors hurt a lot on my left side of the lower spine more then on the right. Foot pain is more on the right toes and scoliosis is right convex. Knee injury was on the left.

This is your 3rd video I'm watching. The recorded voice is slow in volume, in all videos. And the videos could be of half the time. Good information though! 👍🏼

I had some relief from this exercise but my stomach really liked it. It made me really gassy and after about 30 minutes a bm. Coincidence?

Thank you so much!

Would you recommend to do this standing. pressing the left foot to get more right hip rotation and pressing right foot to get more left hip rotation. or should I just do It on the floor. Thank you so much Taro truly Invaluable wisdom!!

Даите пожалуйста упражнения по SI,SACROILICO. Спасибо вам за помощь

I felt a stretch in my tailbone when I pressed my right foot down. I have sciatic pain that travels into that ankle, so it makes sense.

Mi toglie il dolore. No pein But with chear Is no good It Is more pain. 👍👍👍

Hello, do you have any exercise for cruralgia? I have pain in front of the leg going down to the foot. Thanks for all your work, it helps a lot. 👋👋👋

Great stretching. Do you have piriformice relief stretch

Hello Taro! I have already redone some of your videos and really like the concept of the Body awareness. I have vTOS and i know that my movement of the shoulder and scapula feel wrong. Im already working on posture and did your videos for the shoulder and posture. Could you suggest me or do a video for correct movement pattern of the arms or Something which Focuses the scapula and muscles around?

Hi Taro, thank you for this excercise. It gave me temporary relief from this pain that I have been suffering for the last 2 months. I have sciatica. I did a nurve block procedure. It was successful and currently doing physiotherapy to start walking strait and avoid surgery. This excercise relieved the burning and tingling sensation I have right before my big toe on the left side. I have pain in my toe as well. Physiotherapy is still unable to relieve me from these 2 pains. What do you suggest? Thank you.

Hi Taro! Thank you for sharing! Is it possible/safe to do this exercise with the legs stretched instead of bent? I tried doing it pressing my heels instead of the feet and i did feel the movement in the hips, but just wanted to confirm… thank you!! 🌈🐝✨

🙏 hi,,,I wana do splits like van damme,,,do high kicks,,,but my hamstrings too tight,,plz tell me easy way for full split.....😁

Would this sort of thing help my mother who is suffering from february with severe back pain due to herniated disc? The symptoms are lowback pain and radiating down her leg, physio and chiro and massage have all failed to help her. She is 80 and afraid she will have this for the rest of her life. I dont know what to do she is so depressed and has lost so much of her health from not being able to be as active.

Hi Again!! I need your expert advice! your better the most paid professionals!! I have a left hip imbalance, where my movement bias is to lean my body weight towards the left side of hip, this causes pain and tingling in my left foot. should I place more weight in the right foot to relieve the pressure and get my left hip rotating again. Does that make sense?

Hi Taro! your videos have been so insightful! I cannot express my gratitude enough!! I tried to reach out to you as id like to do sessions with you over zoom. Is there a email I can contact you on?

In this video, Mr. Iwamoto, we were instructed to rotate from right foot to left, but it was not suggested to press right an left simultaneously. Would doing so be counter-productive or for any reason not recommended?

Can sciatica heal?

Great… Now I feel I am walking as flying.

If I have anterior pelvic tilt should I make sure my back is completely flat during exercise?

How many reps? Or just till it gets easy to move?