my pleasure!

So happy for you

Good news🙏🙏

A year later I share the same sentiments about Taro and his exercises and wonderful way of explaining and demonstrating them.

I don’t believe

Glad to hear it! Yes please keep me posted on your progress.

wonderful!!

Great

that's just a reminder of habitual bias, and that can be changed through movement retraining :)

yay:)

Training movement patterns that will strengthen and mobilize whats needed will condition our body in the most efficient way, I think. And, it is more fun for me anyway.

Glad you are getting good use out of my videos!

thank you for sharing!!

glad to hear that!

Glad to hear it!

you are welcome:)

how’s it going so far?

my pleasure!

nice job! Moving slowly is a way to inhibit your habitual patterns and learn new patterns!

perfect timing for sure!

Are you still doing these Feldenkrais exercise ? If so how are you doing? God bless you!!

Great! As you walk very, very slowly, see if you notice your weight distribution and movement patterns of pelvis and spine.

You are so welcome!

you're welcome!

coordination plays a huge role in balance which is not discussed very often.

one thing I can say is that there is always a potential for improvements from where we are at for all of us regardless on conditions we are in. Even if we can make a 1% improvement today, that is still a progress. then we can continue to focus on things we can do at each moment to make a difference in our lives.

@@TaroIwamoto thank you for this kind reply 🙏❤️

Nothing done for mine either over 47 yrs ago when it was discovered when my mom was trying to hem a skirt for me. Xrays taken to confirm it but my parents refused to put me in a brace or surgery to keep me from being ridiculed by peers. I am paying for their lackadaisical attitude now...pain often...I'm going to try these exercises tomorrow! Glad I found them!

thank you! glad to hear that

Thank you!

Try it right now! It works immediately. So grateful.

Glad you like them!

my pleasure!

you're welcome!

you are welcome

i am curious to hear more about what you said. can you give me details about a big picture?

@@TaroIwamoto Thanks for answering ! By big picture I mean a way to organise your exercices to build our own strategy. How to organize the actions in a day to be efficient, like do we start by healing the hips to stabilize the spine better in an other exercice ? Or are some healings mandatory to others ? To do it, I would love if you present the connexions between injuries or insensitivities in the body. For the methodology part you can teach us what are the activities to look at in the list, how to prioritize them depending on the injury pattern, how to put them together in a day and how to know we're properly reaching the objectives for example. Thanks again, great job !

@@dan_iversaire This is quite valuable information! Let me understand further. Are you suggesting that I organize my contents into a more specific category and in a sequential manner based on objectives? So that people can follow step by step to achieve their specific goals and have a way to know their own progress?

@@TaroIwamoto thanks for making it valuable. Yes exactly ! It's to help us being even more efficient. Your project can lead to a methodology that imply ressources management (time, energy, ..) for some outcomes (pain relief, ..) by helping us to organise your exercices for ourself. We can even add other parts to understand better, like a presentation about what happen in the body globally with insensitivity or others things that you know great, how to structure the training in a period of time depending on strategies as we said and, in addition maybe, a motivation part that give the full added value of your project for practionners. Hope this can inspire you to keep you great work !

Glad to hear

Glad you liked it!

Thanks for asking me that question. My apology for

once a day would be great

you're welcome!

back is connected to legs, isn't it?

@@TaroIwamoto yeah! Its interesting to me. My legs are different lengths, so my hips are slanted when i stand normally, causing the spine to curve so that the head stays upright

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you are welcome. doing once or twice daily would be wonderful

you're welcome:)

Thanks again, Taro. Appreciated! D.

@@davidball8794 my pleasure!

Welcome!

I suggest you check my Improve posture playlist for that

i once worked with a competitive archer. The sport requires a great deal of focus, stability, and precision. Do archers train the other side to work on balance? Do you?

@@TaroIwamoto I'm only starting my journey, but I see a lot of people strength training on both sides. I haven't seen anything that looks like Feldenkrais applied, which makes me think there must be some low hanging fruit to be found.

@@knightgoggles i see. i dont know enough about archery, but i can see that it requires all proximal skeleton (pelvis, entire spine and head and eyes) to be stable to allow precise motor control for arm. I would think rotational plank type of movement, exercise can be very functional and benefitial

@@TaroIwamoto Thanks, I will try that!

This is really interesting! I know there's "so many possible videos, so little time", but pointers for musicians would be great, too. Every instrument has its problem positions... I know when I first noticed back pain as a kid it was when I was doing long sessions at the piano. I'm not sure if this is possible, but I suspect some of my scoliosis can be attributed to that, as well as carrying a French horn home everyday, as well as a ton of school books. In those days nobody used backpacks for school (only hiking) - it was all shoulder bags. I recently was teaching myself flute, that brings on a whole bunch of other problems. I gave that up as I'm now taking lessons on the harp ... More aches and pains. Some of it will be due to pre-existing conditions, but probably the unusual postures that musicians have to do don't help. I've heard guitar is one of the worst.

i prefer a firm surface, but you can practice this on a bed.

i would still practice this on both sides to inform the nervous system. Enjoy!

@@TaroIwamoto happy to have discovered your channel!🙏

these movement retraining lessons give you the opportunity to notice your habitual movement patterns, and explore new movement patterns, and through these movements, you'll become more aware of your body, movement patterns, and start to integrate new movement patterns rather than getting "stuck" in your habitual movement patterns. It's movement quality and functions you're trying to improve through nervous system and movement retraining:) This is what it means to improve scoliosis:)

I would never try to push the limit whether I am doing Feldenkrais lessons or regular exercises. My general recommendation is to focus on quality more than quantity, that applies to this movement too. This is about retraining the nervous system and movement patterns, so you can say I always apply Feldenkrais principles to any movement training. If you reduce effort and speed and movement range, and focus on improving smoothness of movement, you will notice more improvements without increase in back ache.

@@TaroIwamoto Thank you!

@@marthadahlen7237 you are welcome!

of course! retraining movement patterns is helpful regardless of your conditions, age, circumstances. I would do both sides yes

@@TaroIwamoto Great videos!

i am doing a video on that topic in the near future!

A more important question is how your scoliosis is affecting your body and functions and how you can improve your functions and comfort in your body. It is easy to focus on correcting the spine curvature, which is understandable, but understanding how your habitual movement patterns are contributing to your scoliosis is more useful as you will know what you need to change in order to improve your functions. I posted another video on this scoliosis which you might find it helpful. Here is the link: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/eb-TmNB3vrrLqIE.html

maybe to a certain degree, but ideally when done slowly without forcing your body, you will not experience soreness.

yes I would do both sides for the purpose of retraining and informing your nervous system.

i have not heard about that. I dont see a connection between cervical lordosis and scoliosis. But, lets first acknowledge the fact that everyone has scoliosis to some degree. It is rather abnormal not have scoliosis. A better question to ask is how is scoliosis affecting your functions and movement. If it is contributing to much compensation and decreased functions, we can certainly improve movement quality and functions. That is the focus of this video, and almost all of my videos. From my experience my feeling is that its not very helpful to try to identify every little things that are not perfect per anatomy because each person has a unique body and functions and anatomy book ideal does not fit. Just because people have cervical lordosis, that does not mean that is a problem that needs to be fixed. I have hip labral tear, arthritic knee and hip, lots of degenerative joints and discs, loose bodies in both ankles, cervical lordosis, lumbar scoliosis, etc. Does that mean I need to fix them. Not necessarily. You see how easy it is to label ourselves and make us feel like a mess that needs lots of fixing? It is much more helpful to focus on improving movement and improving whole, not like fixing broken computers.

@@TaroIwamoto That is a great comment Taro, thanks so much for sharing that personal information too. When we look at you and see our ideal of easy movement and coordination, it is great to know you are irregular like everyone else, and the best attitude is not to find everything wrong and fix it, but just to keep improving bit by bit and that is overall improvement. Very helpful positive message thanks !

kzfaq.info/get/bejne/pLSam91yurqshoE.html this video teaches you a very helpful movement skill that can help your back, or anyone's back!

the harder side likely means a non-habitual side. I would start with the easier side to help you recognize the movement pattern, then practice the harder side. You probably want to practice more on the harder side, but I think it's a good idea to go back and forth and transfer the learning from the easier side to the harder side.

Retraining your nervous system through movement retraining means giving your nervous system experience of various movement patterns. Regardless of specific type of scoliosis, it'd be still beneficial for people to sense various movement patterns so you can let your nervous system integrate new movement patterns. This is not about correcting your spine alignment. This is about retraining your brain:)

Thank you Taro

@@lw7654 my pleasure:)

This movement addresses rotational bias of spine as well

Hi! i believe if you change your movement patterns, you can improve your functions and comfort:)

@@TaroIwamoto I don't feel pain, my real concern is aesthetics.

absolutely!

as i mentioned in the video, i was holding the mic with that hand. so no you dont need to keep the hand on the chest

sure you can try

absolutely!

@@TaroIwamoto Thank you!

@@belencisneros1451 you're welcome:)

there is a mat specifically designed for Feldenkrais practice, but i dont know if it is available outside US. Many people use a moving blanket as an alternative

@@TaroIwamoto thanks I will see if I can find one

@@lexroet1215 i am sure you can find them at amazon

You are welcome:) The dominant side usually carries more tension as it is used more often

that is a reminder that two sides function differently and our habitual patterns.

@@TaroIwamoto breaking that habit is hard, I'm currently trying to use my left arm more frequently. It isn't easy but it's interesting to do especially once you discover that you're better at doing certain tasks with your none dominant hand.

@@lexroet1215 think about expanding your movement options instead of breaking habits, then you shift your focus to creating more possibilities vs correcting habits. Truth is that we dont really break old habits

@@TaroIwamoto I try to do both creating new options and habits. I work with my hands, having a left hand that can occasionally take over task from the right might also benefit me in the long run.

yes movement retraining applies to anyone with any type of scoliosis or no scoliosis, but we have have scoliosis

why do you not believe? is there any part of this movement practice that does not make sense to you?