Effective Alignment Lesson to Relieve Lower Back Pain

[@natalag3411]

A friend said she’s done the movements before but never with her shoulders in mind! So...she’ll do it “ forever” your way. Now I’m going to do it to! Many MANY thanks to you!

[@SensingVitality]

Great to hear Natala!

[@jazz_96]

Sprained or pulled my lower back a week ago today, I felt some relief doing this exercise, I’ll continue to practice and do it twice a day everyday. Thank you.

[@SensingVitality]

That's good. Yes, go gently. I have an entire video back series on my Patreon site you can check out bit.ly/SensingVitalityPatreon -- as well as longer lessons in audio form. Definitely go gently and check out the other back lessons I have in my Low Back playlist on KZbin.

[@natalag3411]

Rest-Slow-Small are definitely the key words. I JUST completed this, pausing your video all along the way. Keeping what I have to say short, I made discoveries I haven’t figured out for years!

[@SensingVitality]

glad to hear this...

[@moiraruth9090]

Thanks!

[@chokysenge]

Lovely lesson Annie! I knew these movements but never did them from the shoulders, great idea!

[@SensingVitality]

Thanks Julio

[@suzannebransome860]

Dear Annie Thoe, I am grateful I found you online. I have followed your classes for 3-4 weeks now and I’ve taken your suggestion of finding a professional. After our first meeting, I’m confident I have found a qualified and excellent fit for me. I’ve also turned on 3 more people to your site. You are an excellent teacher with a beautiful voice and gentle wit. Thank you thank you thank you.

[@SensingVitality]

Thank you Suzanne and you are welcome. I appreciate you writing and glad you found someone to work with. Keep me posted. Feedback is awesome.

[@regulatefitness]

So simple & lovely, thanks 🙏

[@SensingVitality]

You are welcome

[@barbaratodd3398]

Such a beautiful, gentle way to care for the body. Thank you Annie.

[@SensingVitality]

Awesome to hear Barbara. I have more in my playlists-- enjoy!

[@summer-fp2ff]

Thank you Annie! Lower back pain relieved immediately.....

[@SensingVitality]

wonderful!

[@gayedavies2797]

Done it! less is more! I have recently been to 4 different therapists - one vibrating plate - the other was a personal trainer and the other 2 are physiotherapists - and all of them absolutely annihilate my body thinking that I need to do really hard exercise at the age of 58 with hypermobility and a back and neck injury from the overzealous exercises they forced me to do. When they explain over you in army style bellowing instructions - it makes me wonder what kind of training they’ve had re progressive re hab - and whether or not they need to go for some therapy themselves to calm down because they are injuring people. I was in so much pain last time I could hardly walk and I told the therapist this time you completely ignored me and carried on with an even hard exercise as if I was being lazy. cause it’s on the national health service to a private contractor I’m not sure what to do because I can’t phone the head of the department because it’s only him. This is what happens when the government contract out NHS services to people who are not properly trained through the care system. I think I might phone up and asked to be transferred to an osteopath because my back is stuck after these exercises with the physiotherapist. At least this Feldenkrais help to release my back and now the pain is much less thank you!

[@SensingVitality]

Hi Gaye-- Glad you have found relief here. All the best to you.

[@rickmorales6115]

I've seen the drill sergeant thing in action before (not with me), and wondered about it. Good post!

[@juliechristianson8905]

Annie, love simply everything about your lessons - your voice, your settings, your gentle exercises, your gentleness. I especially love how you don’t talk and explain too much. Thank you.

[@SensingVitality]

thank you Julie-- great to hear.

[@charleskaneshiro6060]

thank you annie lore a ligament in my ankle and threw out my lower back years ago never knew how to mentally heal from both injuries until now

[@SensingVitality]

Wonderful to hear

[@NtathuAllen]

Thank you. Always amazed at how powerfuk small movement are. Body feels strong.

[@SensingVitality]

Ntathu Allen Thanks Ntahu!

[@YOUR_LOCAL_THERIAN-FERN]

I got a very random and sudden lower back injury just from standing up wrong and causing a jolt. That was two days ago and I haven't been able to get in to a doctor yet. I watched this and tried one session and I'm already feeling relief in my lower back. I'll still see my doctor to pin point the problem, but this technique will surely help me along the way.

[@SensingVitality]

Hi Nichole, so glad to hear this helped you!... I have a playlist of back videos you can check out. I''m working on this youtube site more now that I'm sheltering.... I hope to have more online live classes in the future. Thanks for writing!

[@ambalastores]

Thanks A Million for the Very Cool and Relaxed video,.. It's Helps me not just Back pain But also Helps my Stress Anxiety and Depression... Stay Blessed Live Longer

[@anniethoe4284]

thanks Javed

[@hippyheads]

i found this very helpful as i have sciatic damage on right of lower back and cramp in my right thigh when i did this just moving the knees,now moving the knees with the shoulder i have no cramp or nerve pain. thanks so much.

[@anniethoe4284]

Great to hear, yes, this lesson is very helpful to begin to unwind sciatic issues.

[@saraquesada5518]

Super! Gracias

[@SensingVitality]

awesome

[@rickmorales6115]

Hi Annie Thoe, I would like to thank you for your video series. This one in particular may have literally saved my life. In the sense that I stumbled across it and it allowed me to finish major summer manual labor projects this year. I've had spondylosis since I was in my thirties, so you know the deal. :-) Ironically, you outperformed Veterans Affairs doctors, U.S. military doctors, and German doctors. I've constantly asked, "Okay, spine arthritis. How do I work around it?" You fixed my problem and I appreciate it. Now. I've been looking for your coccyx problem-solving videos, but can't seem to find them. I'll continue to look .... (I like watching your other videos, too.) Respectfully, a U.S. veteran.

[@SensingVitality]

Hi Rick, Thanks so much for your glowing praise! I'm glad to hear this helped you. These lessons I've created for back relief come from my own explorations after injury and many years with clients. The coccyx-- (more on my Playlist for the Back) I have a series on my Patreon Channel that works with side to side movements from the salmon series that works with the tailbone and is quite liberating for the coccyx. It's hard to make a short video from some of these longer class lessons (they are often 30 minutes)-- if you email me directly, I send you a link to one of the salmon classes. You can email me from my contact form on my website: www.sensingvitality.com

[@rickmorales6115]

@@SensingVitality Thank you for your reply. I'll write more tomorrow morning. On the road a bit ...

[@rickmorales6115]

@@SensingVitality I'll definitely email soon. Glad you fixed your own injuries! 😊

[@rickmorales6115]

​@@SensingVitality No need to respond to all my posts, by the way. I know I write too much. :-) I thought about what I wrote about being happy you fixed your ailment, and realized I wrote it because I have a friend who is in the process of doing the same thing: Fixing his ailment with a combination of medical care and "self-help." Quotation marks because he researched and sought out Kundalini yoga (not for everyone, I know) for his PTSD and will soon start teaching the yoga (in addition to other peer-support programmatic techniques as a new career). A DUI probably literally saved his life (ton of naysayers out there, but I think it did). He subsequently dried out at The Klink (VA Clinic) and did/is doing the above. I'll write about in general terms someday. Think I'll also tell him he should go the KZbin route like you did (you are one powerful lady!). Anyway. :-) Thanks again. I'm headed to your site to email.

[@readeray]

Found this very helpful. Thanks.

[@SensingVitality]

that's great-- thanks for the feedback

[@noramiriam1]

Muchas gracias!!!!!!!

[@SensingVitality]

Thanks for the feedback

[@sapnaaalexzander6520]

Bpppppppppp

[@gerrygizzygarcia2572]

Will this help heirnated discs

[@SensingVitality]

This can help, But-- it depends on the herniation and the awareness you are using as you do these movements. Herniation can often mean there is a laxity in the joint now (from the ligament being torn that supports the bones alignment ). In addition to alignment lessons, some kind of gentle toning within the alignment helps you move in an aligned and stable way. Many back exercises work in a larger/grosser alignment and don't work with the finer details of aligning the whole skeletal system. The difference is awareness-- going slowly, gently so your body finds a neutral and efficient core support.

[@DeniseLionetti44]

thank you! this was fantastic!

[@SensingVitality]

Your welcome! Glad you liked it

[@lizleech7074]

Is it ok for someone who has had a hip replacement to do this?

[@SensingVitality]

Yes-- this is a very gentle series of movements which keeps your hip joint in a fairly neutral position so can be done after a hip replacement. If your hip range of motion after surgery doesn't allow you to reach your knee yet, you can take a t-shirt and use like a strap around the front of your knee to pull gently with the one hand - Like in my Seal lesson for warming up back - another great lesson for back and hips kzbin.info/www/bejne/pZyzqoeumdOXl80

[@lizleech7074]

@@SensingVitality Thanks Annie for this prompt reply. I love your videos.

[@amanrohal8127]

Thanks mam it helped with low back but I wonder how long it's effect Will last ? Do I have to do this regularly so that my back stiffness gets cured?

[@SensingVitality]

As your awareness of your skeletal alignment gets clearer, your body will move and hold the alignment more effectively. So, you may need to repeat this lesson a few times to improve your awareness and/or work with some of my other videos or audio lesson series to help stabilize the new movements pattern-- just like improving your skiing, tennis form or anything else that requires finer coordination.

[@michellewachman1740]

Could my mother do this on her bed? She's 89 getting down on the ground isn't happening.

[@SensingVitality]

Yes-- she can. It's helpful to have a firm surface but definitely can try this on a bed.

[@ienekevanhouten4559]

Off topic, but you look beautiful in that vibrant blue!

[@SensingVitality]

thank you

[@sofiamargolina3889]

🌹

[@hornisan]

Great excercises Annie. But why do you talk at the same time? No good. You can add the Audio later.

[@alias_peanut]

No Steps first or last . activity pranayama ABCs yoga , hot yoga , waxing 🌔. Heal hurt withdrawal heal hurt new , u must go through otherwise may regress.