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Neck Pain / Can’t Turn Head | Startle Reflex Somatic Education Exercise by Lawrence Gold

From The Magic of Somatics, this maneuver quiets pain at the front of the shoulder and side of the neck: pectoralis muscles and sterno-cleido-mastoid (SCM) muscles. It takes you progressively out of the tension pattern of Startle Reflex. (See http://ift.tt/1lAybps.

The key to this movement is to synchronize the movement elements. That means the lifting movements of the head and shoulder, and breathing.

You use your breathing to pace, that is, start and end, the other movements. Your breath is also what helps you to let go of your pectoral (chest) muscles, so your shoulder can move back (posteriorly).

Be careful to lift only one shoulder at a time; whichever shoulder you lift, you rest and brace yourself upon the other shoulder.

Startle Reflex is a protective action pattern triggered by fear — closing up the soft front of the body. Habituation in this reflex restricts breathing, causes elevated heart rate, and forward head position.

The Magic of Somatics, page 37 | http://ift.tt/1lAybFG

Neck Pain / Can’t Turn Head | Startle Reflex Somatic Education Exercise by Lawrence Gold
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Startle Reflex Somatic Education Exercise by Lawrence Gold



For clients of Hanna somatic educators.

Follow-up to Session 3, Startle Reflex lesson (clinical session). Integrates breathing with movements of neck, shoulders, trunk

The key this exercise is to synchronize the movements of breathing with the molling movements of the shoulders and the arching and flattening of your back.

As you roll your arms, your shoulders move with them. Explore for the limit of turning of your arms, both directions.

In the “back arched, chin tucked position”, press the back of your head down equally with the pressure of your tailbone/sacrum.

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Free Your Back | Gentle Spine Waves 2014 5 20

Exercises to Help Lower Back Pain

Exercises to Help Lower Back Pain | * |
Gentle movements release tight low back muscle spasms better than stretching. ~~~ FULL INSTRUCTIONAL VIDEO (FREE) at http://ift.tt/1sZ2sCC ~~~
Get immediate and cumulative relief from incapacitating low back pain. Somatic education exercises free you from the grip of muscle spasms, restore your ease of movement. Next video at http://ift.tt/1ktcRFK

Gentle movements gradually release tight low back muscle spasms better than stretching.

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Free Your Psoas Walking into the Floor, Walkthrough 2014 2 17

Walking Into the Floor is the third somatic education exercise of the self-relief program, Free Your Psoas.

This exercise coordinates and frees the psoas muscles, front of the thighs, and back muscles in movement patterns similar to walking. It integrates the core musculature of the pelvis and trunk as well as the superficial muscles commonly referred to as “core” — the abdominals. 

As with all somatic education programs, this exercise depends for its
effectiveness upon good results with the preceding somatic education
exercises, Locating the Center of Breathing and Slide and Turn (which
distinguishes the psoas muscles from the neighboring and more
superficial gluteus minimus and rectus femoris muscles).

You may find it helpful to view this summary walkthrough.

his experience

You may preview the entire program at
http://somatics.com/psoas_muscle_pain_treatment.htm

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New Gentle Spine Waves | for back pain | to elongate your spine

This somatic education exercise progressively develops control of the back muscles, and so relieves the pain caused by excessive tension. It’s relaxing. You should expect to feel changes in how you feel lying down, changes of back curvature, after the second complete practice session. Effects accumulate.

The movements create new muscle/movement memory, which replaces the muscle/movement memory that keeps your back muscles tight and predisposes you to back muscle spasms.
Do the exercise exactly as given, but always work within your comfort zone, as you get more out of it than if you’re cringing from pain or from fear of pain. The key is first to tighten the already-too-tight muscles to get control of them, then to relax in SLOW MOTION to maintain constant awareness of the sensations in the involved muscles.

Disc problems result from too-tight back muscles causing disc compression. | https://somatics.com/wordpress/chronic-back-pain/
 
Most sciatica comes from a combination of tight back muscles and tight waist muscles (side-tilt), which trap the sciatic nerve roots. | http://somatics.com/sciaticasymptoms-piriformissyndrome.htm
 
* Relieves tight low back muscle spasms faster than strengthening and stretching
* Relief from low back pain.in days or weeks instead of months or years
* Good preparation for sleep (for insomnia). More on sleep: http://lawrencegoldsomatics.blogspot.com/2011/04/getting-to-sleep-and-lifes-big-squeeze.html
* a starting move for Lesson 1 of The Cat Stretch exercises — for freeing the muscles of the back of the body

– COMPLETE PROGRAM: http://somatics.com/page7-cat_audio.htm
 
* FULL SELF-RELIEF PROGRAM for back pain: Free Yourself from Back Pain: Make Back Pain Vanish with Nine Movement Sequences that Recondition Your Back when Therapy Hasn’t Worked | http://somatics.com/page7-back_pain.htm
 
MORE video at http://somatics.com/back_pain.htm
 
ARTICLES:

Exercises to End Lower Back Pain | Gentle
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Clinical Somatic Education | a New Discipline in the Field of Health Care
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Freeing Tight Hamstrings, advanced

Know about somatic education exercises?

key points for correct practice of the more-advanced movement:

basic form of the movement (easier):

Without stretching, this maneuver creates brain-level changes that free tight hamstrings.  A second exercise stabilizes the improvement.

Read and Understand:  http://somatics.com/hamstrings-and-knees.htm

Get more: ending back pain, free tight psoas muscles, better sleep:  http://somatics.com/page7.htm

Introduction for the Free Your Hamstrings instructional video.  Somatic exercises free muscles by retraining movement/muscle-memory (brain-level control) — results come from the effect the sensations of movement have on the brain’s memory of sensation and movement.  The memory of sensations and movements (including those of injury and/or distress) conditions muscular tension patterns (“muscle memory”).

Article, How Free Hamstrings Support Healthy Knees and a Better Way to Free Them | http://somatics.com/hamstrings-and-knees.htm.

BEST RESULTS:
Prepare with the somatic exercises,
1. Calf Stretch Replacement Better Foot Strike:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GV4ZTpjXiQQ

2. Lesson 1 from Disproving the Myth of Aging (to free the back muscles):  http://somatics.com/page7-cat_audio.htm

Follow with Module 3b from Free Yourself from Back Pain, The Dog Stretch:  http://somatics.com/page7-back_pain.htm

Part of the upcoming program, Comfort Your S-I Joints and Eliminate Mysterious Body Pains

Tight hamstrings are more than tight hamstrings.  Usually, they are also tight back muscles.  Both places are part of the same action pattern — having to do with walking.

However, sitting is also involved.  Tight hamstrings pull your bottom out from under, forward, making it necessary to use your back and your psoas muscles to sit more erect.  Fatigue and soreness follow.

Cyclists get tight hamstrings, hip joint muscles, and psoas muscles from using toe-clips and then pulling backward and forward (in addition to the usual up-and-down movements).

See http://somatics.com/hamstrings-and-knees.htm for a useful article and a second hamstring exercise video. || related article:  “Power Stretching” — different from what you already know | http://somatics.com/stretch.htm

Free the back muscles with The Cat Stretch Exercises (no cat required – or stretching, either — find out how). | http://somatics.com/page7-cat_audio.htm

Full article on tight back/back pain | https://somatics.com/wordpress/chronic-back-pain

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Gentle Spine Waves with Diamond Penetration Rhythms | Relax Spinal Muscles and Elongate Your Spine

Use of the Gentle Spine Waves movement | http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=inwhYsFMRe8 | to demonstrate how the Diamond Penetration Rhythms can be applied to individual movement elements of a somatic education exercise.

The Diamond Penetration Technique | http://lawrencegoldsomatics.blogspot.com/2011/01/advance-of-somatic-education-technique.html | uses movement, sensory awareness, attention and intention to uncover the level of self-control at which deeply-seated involuntary muscular contraction patterns can be changed to improve posture and free movement.

Limitations to movement of which one is unaware, but whose consequences one feels, change.

One then recognizes the predicament one was in — after one is no longer in it.

The focus of this somatic education exercise is the lumbo-sacral junction — the low back where lumbar spine meets the pelvis at the sacrum.

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Comforting Your S-I Joints | from Unit 1 Determining Sacral Position


Sacro-iliac joint pain can be understood as a case of “broken pelvis” — in which the “break” occurs at the three major joints (syndesmoses) of the pelvis: at the pubic bone (pubic symphysis) and the two sacro-iliac joints. The break consists not of a fracture of bone, but as a displacement (misalignment) of the bones and as a strain at the joints.

My hypothesis, which fits experience, is that with displacement comes distortion of pelvic shape, registered as ligamentous strains within the pelvis that, when sensed by the brain, triggers muscular spasms not just in the pelvis, but as far-away as the neck and jaws.
The first step to correct S-I joint pain is to determine the misalignment. Two two major possibilities are a rotation and a displacement of one side downward; they generally occur together.

This tutorial clip shows what to look for to determine what the displacement is.

Full regimen: click here
(http://lawrencegoldsomatics.blogspot.com/2014/06/regimen-for-sacro-iliac-iliosacral.html)

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