Loved the finish! (the flourish) I've done this for months, and I can't remember where I saw it first - it was probably your channel, though I came across Essential Somatics first. I benefited from doing this on linoleum vs carpet, because it increased head 'feel' which you again describe with beautiful words. I think this is super-applicable to spectrum disorder - just this one aspect of somatic groundwork. This should be a primer, in my layperson's opinion for people on the spectrum who want to explore yoga.
always appreciate your feedback and hearing about your experiences. Head spiral as guided here may be in other somatic methods (other than SG) and for me this particular study showed up one day about 12 years ago in a deep personal practice. That moment was a gift! Since then, head spirals has become part of the SG home series (ten basic practices).
@@kailajunekeliikuli Thanks! I really got into twist in December 2017. A lot unfolded from that. Remember I'm self diagnosed, but twist was fundamental in moving to a better place on the spectrum. I moved twist onto the floor after somebody's somatic rolling video, anyway... The thing is that (and I did kind of mention this before) before developing the somatics to some of the right suboccipital muscles I was stalled. rectus captious posterior minor and obliques captious superior were particularly offline. It took a few hundred hours of subocciptal floor-work/sitting-work and standing work to properly isolate the muscles so the somatics could build. So I kind of had to go beyond the holistic work. But I really needed the holistic work first! Which is why I made the comment above. Also, yes, spiral is a much better word - I'll start using it! Thanks Again!
@@kailajunekeliikuli correcting spelling - "rectus capitus posterior minor" and "obliquus capitus superior".... I guess somatics has difficulty with the idea of doing isolated pandiculations. But I'm really trying to help the cause by letting you know that I had to progress to this level. I needed ALL of the lessons of somatics and many of the lessons of yoga. In a nutshell, though I'm self-diagnosed, I'm very confident saying to you and others that are on your level that my primary 'De-autism" therapy is now (after thousands of hours of yoga and hundreds of hours of somatics and pandiculation) mainly rectus capitus posterior minor pandiculation. (and mainly with the right side). There were other glaring somatic deficiencies with the eye muscles/face muscles/ nose muscles/tongue muscles, etc, etc..., but the problem that I faced with the right-side rectus capitus posterior minor was gigantic. Almost undescribeable. I think a real divergence point between spectrum and neurotypical. You probably can not feel what I felt. Since I only talk about this to somatic instructors, I thank you for providing a venue for me to share this.
@@kailajunekeliikuli last comment, thanks for sharing your turning point on spiral. I will share my turning points in a video eventually and I've got a lot of good things to say about somatics. It has changed my life. Martha sort of approved of my isolated neck pandicualtions, but it was left on the level of neck, not detailed like suboccipital. (that was about two years ago, I think). If you freeze frame the video at 7:48 and gently brush your nose on the floor I think you will feel subocciptal pandiculation. I don't know what you will feel, and I'm afraid some people would get migraines from this. But I dealt with it by doing many hours of micro-pandiculations - very tiny movements... btw, it was very natural for this to happen as I was already on a yoga which is an inward journey for years. It was entirely natural to take neck Pandiculation inward, ie, past the splenius, all the layers, and always deeper until, yes, there is a final muscle at the top of the neck. My wife calls me Charlie Brown, so I say "Get Suboccipital Life, It Plays!"
Loved the finish! (the flourish) I've done this for months, and I can't remember where I saw it first - it was probably your channel, though I came across Essential Somatics first. I benefited from doing this on linoleum vs carpet, because it increased head 'feel' which you again describe with beautiful words. I think this is super-applicable to spectrum disorder - just this one aspect of somatic groundwork. This should be a primer, in my layperson's opinion for people on the spectrum who want to explore yoga.
always appreciate your feedback and hearing about your experiences. Head spiral as guided here may be in other somatic methods (other than SG) and for me this particular study showed up one day about 12 years ago in a deep personal practice. That moment was a gift! Since then, head spirals has become part of the SG home series (ten basic practices).
@@kailajunekeliikuli Thanks! I really got into twist in December 2017. A lot unfolded from that. Remember I'm self diagnosed, but twist was fundamental in moving to a better place on the spectrum. I moved twist onto the floor after somebody's somatic rolling video, anyway... The thing is that (and I did kind of mention this before) before developing the somatics to some of the right suboccipital muscles I was stalled. rectus captious posterior minor and obliques captious superior were particularly offline. It took a few hundred hours of subocciptal floor-work/sitting-work and standing work to properly isolate the muscles so the somatics could build. So I kind of had to go beyond the holistic work. But I really needed the holistic work first! Which is why I made the comment above. Also, yes, spiral is a much better word - I'll start using it! Thanks Again!
@@kailajunekeliikuli correcting spelling - "rectus capitus posterior minor" and "obliquus capitus superior".... I guess somatics has difficulty with the idea of doing isolated pandiculations. But I'm really trying to help the cause by letting you know that I had to progress to this level. I needed ALL of the lessons of somatics and many of the lessons of yoga. In a nutshell, though I'm self-diagnosed, I'm very confident saying to you and others that are on your level that my primary 'De-autism" therapy is now (after thousands of hours of yoga and hundreds of hours of somatics and pandiculation) mainly rectus capitus posterior minor pandiculation. (and mainly with the right side). There were other glaring somatic deficiencies with the eye muscles/face muscles/ nose muscles/tongue muscles, etc, etc..., but the problem that I faced with the right-side rectus capitus posterior minor was gigantic. Almost undescribeable. I think a real divergence point between spectrum and neurotypical. You probably can not feel what I felt. Since I only talk about this to somatic instructors, I thank you for providing a venue for me to share this.
@@kailajunekeliikuli last comment, thanks for sharing your turning point on spiral. I will share my turning points in a video eventually and I've got a lot of good things to say about somatics. It has changed my life. Martha sort of approved of my isolated neck pandicualtions, but it was left on the level of neck, not detailed like suboccipital. (that was about two years ago, I think). If you freeze frame the video at 7:48 and gently brush your nose on the floor I think you will feel subocciptal pandiculation. I don't know what you will feel, and I'm afraid some people would get migraines from this. But I dealt with it by doing many hours of micro-pandiculations - very tiny movements... btw, it was very natural for this to happen as I was already on a yoga which is an inward journey for years. It was entirely natural to take neck Pandiculation inward, ie, past the splenius, all the layers, and always deeper until, yes, there is a final muscle at the top of the neck.
My wife calls me Charlie Brown, so I say "Get Suboccipital Life, It Plays!"