How We "Learn" Postural Restoration

[@NelsonBiglar]

I will say that yes I've had a huge epiphany with understanding PRI and ZOA, Left AIC and in simple terms just having a stronger right side and weaker left side. My biomechanics seem to acknowledge this also. For like 5-6 years I was slowly figuring out what my body was doing but didn't have that neuroplastic link to connect my physical body with my brain. Huge awakening when I understood that. In probably the last 6 months give or take I've realized more upper body issues or dysfunctions that I never felt before and I think its because I've really nailed down my pelvis Left AIC pattern to the point where pain and the associated pattern seems to have really lightened up. Right shoulder and what seems to be my cervical atlas/axis and tightness in neck. I do have tightness turning neck to left! I think I'm integrating more and more now because i'm understanding the whole brain/body connection. I might have to delve into the visual / optics side of PRI also. Big epiphany with breathing and how the ribs play a major role in everything. Crazy! I still think I have an issue with my right ankle at talus where an impingement is causing localized issue but does also seem to be getting better also. (those paper towels on my medial arch's is wild)!!! I'm really looking/feeling things top/down as a whole human more now. I don't feel 100% but its really a great feeling to understand things this way. I have your email for our one on one Neal, just been busier than normal but will get in touch with you soon. Thanks much!

[@NealHallinan]

Perhaps you still can't pronate fully on the right foot? Have you tried a lateral shoe wedge in your right shoe? It might help you stay on your right arch better.

[@valkyrieiivalhalla3255]

You are about to change my life with this!!! I can’t wait to show my doctors. This is what I’ve tried to tell them and they don’t believe me 🙏

[@Bitachon]

Sad

[@IJamesCordenLoveMyWife]

Ambitious to think a doctor is going to take what you show them seriously. They will think you are a “webmd” patient and won’t process whatever you are telling them

[@seektruthnow00001]

Yea a medically brainwashed doctor will never understand. You have to be your own doctor.

[@cynthiacook2978]

l love how all your videos connect the dots for me. Thank you!

[@NealHallinan]

You're very welcome, Cindy. This video was pretty much what I was trying to accomplish with you last year.

[@janeirorodriguez5903]

A must see Channel for All and any one spanning the gamut of Ancient, Classical, or Modern Modalities of Whole Health. In continuous gratitude for Your Unique Perspective. Another Eloquent Vid.

[@GoodOmen365]

I’m very much thankful for Ron Hurska, you, Neal, and everyone involved in PRI. I’m currently undergoing orthodontic treatment to correct my malocclusion. I see my crossbite more clearer each day. It’s tough getting through the day since I deal with externally rotated hips and sometime supinated feet on both legs. These videos help me get by. Thank you for giving me a chance on getting better.

[@ashwanidagar8660]

With the help of your videos now i can feel my weight on both legs , gained full left ZOA, can feel my right scapula , adduction drop test and right gh internal rotation test is now negative but my mandible is still laterally leftward rotated ,nose pointing little bit to right side

[@NealHallinan]

Try to create left molar contact while doing PRI exercises and keep the molar contact through the entire exercise. Breathe through your nose instead of exhaling through your mouth. See if anything changes.

[@ashwanidagar8660]

@@NealHallinan i have open posterior bite ,so i have to retrude my mandible to contact molars.

[@NealHallinan]

@@ashwanidagar8660 that could be your problem. Any type of open bite can be problematic and cause neck tension. Put a tongue depressor between your teeth so your molars have something to "touch". See if it makes your body feel different.

[@simev500]

Thanks for the physiological insight, Neal. You are providing good public service.

[@margaretmyles8290]

Neal, I have right sided pain, down to the feet, it feels like my right side is trying to move to the left, (I am left handed) dreadful head pain progressively worse over 45 YEARS. Diagnosis has always been MIGRANE. I've never agreed with the migrane diagnosis. Your posts are the FIRST time anything has made sense to me. I have to find a practitioner now, I live in Sydney Australia. Thank you soooooo much for these educational posts.

[@NealHallinan]

Hello Margaret, I really hope more people in Australia start doing PRI. I don't know where this individual is located in Australia, and she doesn't do PRI specifically, but she did present at a PRI conference, so she must have advanced knowledge of some type. www.rosalbacourtney.com/

[@crispycrimps865]

Hey Neal I'm learning so much from your videos. As someone with a 18 degree curve in my lumbar spine, it's interesting to think it could be related to an issue I've never considered before. I check every box for what youe channel talks about. My PT told me I shouldnt mess with my scoliosis as my body has now adapted to this new state. If you havent talked about the effects this can have on the curvature of the spine, I think it would be extremely useful! Thank you

[@NealHallinan]

I'm not an expert on scoliosis, but the entire fourth day of the PRI Advanced Integration course is devoted to treating people with scoliosis. Take that for what it's worth.

[@seektruthnow00001]

Recently subscribed this is news to me. Thank you.

[@stephaniefagin8332]

I was so blown away by Myokin, P. Respir, and Imping/Instab that I fear taking the cranial/neck course!!! I've already taken the 3 I mentioned twice and it's still confusing! However, it sounds like it's worth it down the road!

[@omalone1169]

How's it been going

[@stephaniefagin8332]

@@omalone1169 It's going pretty well. Just took the live stream PRI course for fitness and movement a couple weeks ago and things are starting to make more sense. I'd still like to do a consult with you. I saw you as one of the instructors for the vision course, I believe? Anyway, what's your availability for a skype or zoom call?

[@theshauneallanshow]

This is why I teach proprioception - the ability to sense time and space.

[@saadpage]

You are life saver, thanks from the bottom of my heart

[@NealHallinan]

You're welcome.

[@sherrybent1849]

You have described my issue to the t in this video.

[@samsam-co8cb]

Hey Neal great videos, any chance you can do a video about the importance of stretching the left posterior hip capsule? I've been trying pri exercises for months with not so great results, did the standing posterior hip capsule stretch and it changed everything, I can finally shut off my tfl and shift into the left hip and now the exercises are working. really helping with my balance as I have Meniere's disease.

[@NealHallinan]

It certainly is important for certain people. Your experience does show how a little bit of restriction in a joint can throw a wrench in a program. Overcoming that restriction is so important! I'll get to it eventually.

[@rahaffaoury5758]

How can I get these courses please 🙏🙏

[@michaelrasley]

THANK YOU. I think you sold me on going down the PRI road. Since we have so much time right now. I might as well get going. Do you recommend a specific course to start with? Myokin?

[@omalone1169]

08:10 didn't notice that Looking left is tight

[@TrangPhamNguyen]

I am so glad I discovered you through Google search in lateral pelvic tilt! Love ur vids. Just curious, how do you feel about somatic exercises?

[@NealHallinan]

I guess it depends on what particular exercises you are talking about.

[@trottaessex]

Hi Trang - I’ve had success with the somatic exercises too , seems to reset my patterns

[@andrinep.780]

Somatics is the missing link! Sensory-motor-amnesia gone. The blindspots of the brain can see again. That's what its all about.

[@andrinep.780]

@@NealHallinan For the whole body, but of course also the specifically relevant ones for ones case! Sensory-motor-amnesia no more. Highly recommend Somatics to everyone: Read the book Somatics by Thomas Hanna, and learn the exercises in his book, plus find teachers on KZbin. Life saver. As I guess your work is life saving for people too, but with a different approach.

[@Bitachon]

*What about ankle pain? Related?*

[@JimmyVu415]

I’ve been depressed for 2 years with this left AIC right BC problem. Just recently, I’ve been doing the PRI exercises as shown on your website and I also got some shoes that was on the PRI shoe list. I feel a big improvement with my posture and with my walking mechanics, I still have ways to go though. I still find it a bit difficult to get to my left side and stabilizing that side as I tend to orient back to my right side. I think the shoes that I’m wearing (Asic gel nimbus) are helping but could you suggest what else I could do to get on the left side? I swear, when I finally get past this hurdle in my life, I will be the happiest man in the world. Thanks Neal, hope you had a good 2019 and wishing you an even better 2020

[@NealHallinan]

Jimmy, where do you live?

[@JimmyVu415]

Neal Hallinan i live in San Francisco, California

[@JimmyVu415]

Is there any way I can get a 1 on 1 skype/facetime consultation or something?

[@sHerlockHolmes09-h]

I can feel u🙂

[@themoldielyme7195]

Thank you for your videos! I love them! Do you have a video on the cranial pattern?

[@NealHallinan]

Just this. kzbin.info/www/bejne/laKXnXijgZx-e7c

[@petern7380]

Finally, I've had an AHAR moment, now realise what's wrong with me, thx

[@Silentpartner2176]

When you say the stuff up here gets locked up, what are some examples? You spoke about dental? Also, I have a deviated septum is that something I should be concerned about or try to fix? Thanks, I love your videos so far.

[@NealHallinan]

If the deviated septum is preventing you from breathing through your nose, and thus rely more on mouth breathing, that can be problematic because it promotes overactive neck muscles. When I say "locked up" it means you lose normal range of motion in the joints and spine.

[@Silentpartner2176]

@@NealHallinan Great thanks.

[@NaturopathMD]

Neal, how effective would wearing a RIGHT eye patch, periodically, to practice Left sided vision? If at all?

[@sportsstyle48]

10:05 I have almost all of these 😂😂😭😭 wow. My neck does feel like it’s pulling everywhere

[@cloverfields6339]

your explanation of the physical symptoms of the cervical imbalance really summed up some of my own lifelong issues as well. no one really looked into the pain i had at 10 years old...now im 25 and im trying to take steps to rebalance my body would you say tmj issues are related to this? my jaw clicks when it moves back and forth or from side to side. it jolts from one position to another rather than gliding smoothly. i was told this runs in my family but i know there must be a way to ease the symptoms it causes

[@flipo010]

It’s super related, I have a lot of postural and respiratory problems and found out it was because of my jaw being out of place. If you want to know more he has a video about it

[@samderp9488]

does it make sense that I feel that strengthening my right psoas (when shifted to the left) has helped my chronically tight right adductor and oblique releax?

[@NealHallinan]

Actually, yes it does. The right psoas often weakens in it's ability to help rotate our lumbar spine (and thus pelvis) to the left. You may now be more efficient in "getting left" and thus your right adductor and obliques can now rest. If you can't "get left" the right side stays overactive.

[@silentsabbath]

what about blindness? ie: I'm mostly blind in my right eye (from birth) so I wonder how that impacts all of this. Hmm.

[@Rin-xy4tt]

Thank you! I wish I found your channel earlier. Keep it going!

[@rayyanbukhari4466]

Well explained. I have something come in mind while watching video,that how do you assess that you are cranially/top down driven as symptoms are same either top or down driven?

[@NealHallinan]

You can't really. That's why people need professional help. In general, cranial/neck patterns are the strongest, so if they aren't resolved, all other interventions can help but won't resolve completely.

[@sanchigulati2599]

I have everything u r saying here, m only 28... please tell how to fix.. r u tryin to say i need to be more aware and how I see or sense things around and be more aware from the inside

[@NealHallinan]

Yes, I am saying that. But if you aren't "aware" of what to be aware of, there isn't a whole of meaning in what I'm saying. I'd recommend just to just start watching all my videos about "patterns". Otherwise you have no context for what I'm talking about.

[@thomas2081]

As your devoted student, I can't agree more Neal. It is all true. But you are a GREAT teacher and I progress every day with your vids. Also, from my experience and talking to people, in my humble opinion, PRI is only for people who can think outside the box.

[@grege5538]

Great ! Keep it up 🙌

[@rebeccahale1976]

Are there any clinicians that work in pediatrics? This puts language to what I do with kids. I'd love to know which courses to explore first.

[@NealHallinan]

Actually, yes. Lisa Mangino, although she does specialize in pediatric scoliosis. I have an interview with her in my Scoliosis playlist.

[@jamilshakoor7923]

Thanks for this. Super thorough.

[@NealHallinan]

Thanks, Jamil!

[@edbenedicto]

Hi Neal, I think the “Turkish get up” is a unilateral exercise. For improving left side strength - what do you think?

[@omalone1169]

I disagree Let's argue

[@69shozzy]

Neil, if one wanted to do a PRI course is it possible to go straight to the Secondary Course?

[@NealHallinan]

I don't think so.

[@Noone-ew2wk]

How can we inhibit the neck from breathing? Ive been working on the left zoa but just today i noticed when breathing my neck was activating.I ve also noticed half of my upper teeth are going inside my bottom teeth when i bite..I always knew i had weird teeth but since theyre symmetrically f**kd it doesnt affect the appearance too much, kinda makes me look like a vampire lol never paid attention to how they were closing but now i think im totally f**ked up..

[@NealHallinan]

If your occlusion is an issue, then that will not let your neck relax. Try putting a tongue depressor between your teeth to "take your bite away". You don't have to bite down. Just hold it between your teeth. See if you experience your neck differently.

[@pawelk3702]

have you been thinking about eye laser correction? what you think about that?

[@NealHallinan]

No chance! I'd rather keep a lens in front of my eyes than to have someone surgically change my visual system. I've worked with a number of people that had Lasik. Some I've had no success with, others have been fine.

[@erichbrough6097]

What might it mean if I don't 'freak out' on either side? Not sure if this matters, but I haven't had sustained binocular vision since 2016 (and had previous issues for years with a drifting right eye, accompanied by chronic head tilt to the left).

[@NealHallinan]

I'm not sure. I can't exactly remember what I said in this video about "freaking out".

[@erichbrough6097]

@@NealHallinan it was in regard to shifting and looking to the left

[@hazznek]

Hi Neal, First of all thanks for sharing all these valuable info! I've been struggling for almost 10 years with lots of really bad symptoms visiting all sort of medical professionals without a clue of the diagnosis. I have undiagnosed strange stressful visual problems and chronic pain affecting the whole left side from foot to head, left TMJ, and right side is really without any pain at all. I'm a software engineer working for about 10 hours a day in sitting position, looking into a computer screen and using a mouse since I was 17 years old (I'm 49 now). I'm wondering if all those undiagnosed debilitating symptoms can be related to bad posture, excess of sitting position, and if PRI would explain the unexplained symptoms I'm struggling with. Unfortunately I live in Brazil and not sure if can find PRI professionals down here.

[@chrisradnedge74]

And you’re dying 😂 i love you Neal!! I love your explanations.

[@larafiji]

what are the pre requisites to studying PRI? Does one have to be a Physical Therapist?

[@NealHallinan]

No, don't have to be a PT. The pre-requisites are on their website.

[@TheBrucepix]

I’ve become so aware of my right BC pattern through your videos. I’m fighting to avoid total hip replacement.

[@MekonenMeteor123]

Made complete sense

[@Sunshine.500]

Neal, do you recommend the supine piriformis stretch?

[@NealHallinan]

Generally not for the right side, but for the left side, sure.

[@Sunshine.500]

Neal Hallinan Thanks Neal . I value your opinion.. thanks a lot.

[@Sunshine.500]

Neal do you have a link to one of your videos that demonstrates the correct form of a piriformis stretch , & protect the kneecap while doing it?

[@NealHallinan]

@@Sunshine.500 I don't have anything for that.

[@therealjahovasthickness]

Everything you are talking about is me but for the opposite side and directions. Why?

[@therealjahovasthickness]

Text book flat feet. Right fort sticks out to the left and looks like a 📐 when I’m standing. Oh boy are we in for something

[@theslopchop]

This stuff is awesome

[@NealHallinan]

Thank you.

[@carrd1]

❤️❤️❤️

[@k2ashley]

Everything about me is this . Now I have tinnitus too.

[@Khaled91]

The neck and head are going to become more of an issue in the future with new generations addicted to their phones.

[@NealHallinan]

Definitely.

[@GutsAndGall]

God this is me. I need help.

[@frogadelicresearchgroup2521]

So basically its like investing into cryptocurrency or taking psychedelics. You need to open your mind for the paradigm shift.