30-Minute Relaxed Movement Class | Self Love 💕

[@tracyvision]

This. This is the magic of your channel Alfons. How *letting go* allows me to flow as a connected being in beautiful partnership with gravity.

[@ImprovingAbility]

Thank you Tracy for this glowing feedback 🔥💖

[@bentheblackbutterfly222]

What a way of words

[@anndyercervantes8352]

Fantastic! This revealed so many little, dogged holding patterns and differences between sides. So appreciate you, Alfons!

[@sylvia1124]

01:00AM Est. Omg! How can such sweet little executions end in such delicious big an fun movements? Very euphoric! Thank you, Alfons.

[@Olga-uh4op]

Thank you, a very soothing and touching emotionally freeing practice 🙏

[@stevechambers8869]

The Kellogg’s rice crispies of movement for me. Snap crackle and pop. Finally cracked free the shoulder where I fractured my collarbone so many decades ago. Sometimes parts need to be ‘shoved’ into areas they have completely forgotten are possible.

[@Nillerus]

Are you trying to trick me into leading a better life with your fancy principles of physics, biomechanics, and an empirical understanding of learning and human development!? Well, it's working damn you 😁

[@ImprovingAbility]

🤣🤣🤣❤️💖

[@minichanti]

" So be brave, be courageous. You will experience your imprisonment in a dead body, but soon the dead body will begin to awaken. Then the situation will take a new turn; people around you will seem dead-but not everybody-as you look around, you will see some whose eyes are a little bit open or very much open. Work with your pains, using them to reawaken the circulation in this lifeless body, this sleeping machine " S. ROPP

[@Wonieka]

I have chronisch stress in my body. This one is really helpfull for relaxing.

[@bowserbloom]

What camera and mic do you use to make your videos? Love your channel. Many thanks!

[@luyzqint3760]

This was very relaxing and fun, but I think I missed the main purpose of it. Thank you Alfons ✌️

[@mpnunan]

thank you for your videos. Can you recommend some videos for a tight sacroiliac joint? One of my legs is actually a tiny bit shorter than the other; I'm told it's the SI joint. Thanks you!

[@ImprovingAbility]

This one didn’t help? Maybe there’s something in my recent “Good posture” video series that can help you restore a sense for that area? 🤷‍♂️

[@gobontu6224]

It looks like the quality of the comments reflects the quality of your Feldenkrais lessons

[@ImprovingAbility]

They do! Thank you 🙏😄💖

[@addigreer4487]

thought i had done this before,but nooo, somehow i missed this lesson-it’s Lovely Alfons! Thank You! somehow i got booted off Patreon; my credit card date expired(?) i will try to get it going again.

[@ImprovingAbility]

Thank you Addi! ❤️ And yes, isn’t it a lovely lesson! 😁

[@petermaier3725]

Hi Alfons, I enjoy your videos very much, thank you for all your work! I have a question: It seems to me that the Feldenkrais-method offers an almost endless number of lessons. - Which is great, because this way it never gets boring and the body always learns something new. There will be something for everybody and very situation. However I was wondering if it might also be useful to have a routine of a very limited number of lessons, that cover every part of the body. For the person who wants a general health mainetenance program with the most valuable exercises, that are easy eough to remember. You know, a limited, simple program, but still quite effective. Maybe you already have something like that and I'm not aware of. I just like the idea of someone like you, who knows the method very well, to cherry pick among the myriad of lessons and come up with a timeless set of effective and at the same time easy enough to remember exercises for all parts of the body

[@tracyvision]

Peter, FWIW I went looking for something similar a couple of years ago. What I discovered was Hanna Somatics. Thomas Hanna was a student of Moshe Feldenkrais so the work is similar. Hanna has a set sequence of movements that resets me head to toe and doesn’t take very long to do. Then I layer on a longer exploration from Alfons to either target what needs more attention or simply catches my interest. I find them a powerful pairing. I learned Hanna Somatics from a 6 week online course offered by Essential Somatics.

[@marcust.5754]

Agree with Tracey. I also use Feldenkrais and Hanna . As a daily routine I do the Cat stretch bij Thomas Hanna. Consists of around 10 exercises. You can find it on KZbin. I Like the version by Susan Koenig .

[@ImprovingAbility]

Hi Peter. I've been thinking about your question for a couple of days now. In fact, your question is as popular as it's an old question. Many of Moshé Feldenkrais's famous students have tried-and published either a series, a course, or a training program with that question in mind. Here in the comment section Tracy and Marcus both gave a good example as answer, but there are many. It's relatively easy to look up, just google. Even Moshé Feldenkrais himself has tried several times and published several such courses. I too have tried, and published my first take on your question 6 years ago- my KZbin series called, Getting Better Day By Day, plus the workbook. I think it's not worse than Thomas Hanna's course, and might even be a bit more comprehensive (which of course is up to the student to decide/judge.) However, since that time my understanding has become much larger and deeper, and I'm currently designing a course or maybe even a teacher training program that also will answer your question. Ultimately, however, I want to lead my students to a position where they can do the same thing as Moshé Feldenkrais did, and his famous students did, and me too: to be able to design your own lessons and your own series. Because ultimately, as a grown up, nobody should tell you what to think, what to say, what to write, what to wear, which mantras to repeat, and in this sense: how-to move and in which ways to move. Suggestions welcome, but ultimately we need to say what WE think, write our own stories, and make our own movement sequences. Maybe here it becomes clear that what I teach is not gymnastics, not fitness, not functional fitness, not physical therapy and not trauma therapy, not softacrobatics, .... but something else altogether, something more like language and experience. Does any of this make sense? Summary: try my series, Getting better day by day, or any such series by Moshé Feldenkrais or his famous students as Tracy and Marcus commented with one example, and watch out for my upcoming training program (maybe to be announced by the end of the year 2023). 😁

[@tracyvision]

@@ImprovingAbility another reason I’m grateful for your channel Alfons. You’ve taught me how to explore movement for myself. How to notice what I’m feeling. What things can I change to see if it feels better? Every lesson you post offers me something new to integrate into my daily exploration into feeling better.

[@marcust.5754]

@@ImprovingAbility yes developing your own movements is the next step, it comes quite natural I noticed. I've added some to my daily routine.

[@mtmtmtmt]

Alfons, in the same way that you put the pillow under your head, can I put a "shock absorber" between my knees? When sleeping, I use a face towel folded and rolled up so that the hips are more comfortable. TY.

[@ImprovingAbility]

Yes please everyone make yourself comfortable :) At 4:00 I recommend to pad your knees, just like you suggested, thank you for the reminder 😊

[@luyzqint3760]

Very advanced, does that mean that I should not try it, yet?.

[@ImprovingAbility]

I count you to the very advanced students Luyz 😁 please try! to participate in this class students need the ability to feel (their comfort) and sense (small differences) and think (what they are doing) and move (delicately)

[@luyzqint3760]

@@ImprovingAbility I am!?😜. Thank you, Alfons. I will try it tomorrow.✌️