There are no videos with the quality of yours on youtube. Precious info given away for free, that not even physioterapists tell us patients during the usual appointments. Thank you for your effort.
Neal, the information you give is incredible. After decades of debilitating pain and doctors and surgeries, 2 months ago my left leg spun outwards and my psoas and a large chunk of muscles all over started working. Since then it’s felt like I was having a skeletal alignment done every day. I found your channel last week and it was like a punch to the face to watch you describe and outline the relationship to every single problem I have been dealing with. Bombarded with answer after answer to a lifetime of unanswered questions. I’m hopefully going to keep improving and will be seeing the nearest pri trained physio next week. I never post comments but I just wanted to thank you for sharing all this info.
@@NealHallinan hello, I am so glad I came across your channel. It somehow makes sense now. In the most videos I have watched you talk about the Left side and mention that the right one is different. Have you made any videos on the right side? I believe I have this problem on the right side with si joint pain, hip pain, shifted pelvis and lately very unstable walking with the Left knee going out of position (i have to put it into position couple of times a day by "shaning" the knee lateraly till it slightly cracks). Thank you very much in advance.
Keep watching his videos. The info will start sinking in and you will be able to apply it for yourself. You know your body better than anyone. Use hos knowledge through his videos for yourself. You can also set up an appointment with him via Zoom for troubleshooting or extra help and even to just get started if you need help sorting it out. Also, check to see if there are any PRI trained people around your area, you may be surprised.
It is unbelievable, i realized for myself that the jaw/hips/spine are connected and 1 day later i find your content, never even searched for anything like this. I also found out within myself that the eyes, heart, solarplexus, gut are also connected (the whole system but these are also major hotspots). The tension and cramps are manifestations of emotional/mental stress and it is all interconnected. I also love how you go into mysticism in your content and that you like to "feel" your body, same as i do. It fills me with great joy that you prove all my suspicions about my body right, and i came to all my conclusion with just introspection and feeling my body and my breath. I do a lot of yoga (propper traditional indian yoga) and it completely changed my life and your work is really helpful in this chapter of my journey. And yeah, breathing is the key to all of this. so happy to have found your channel sir, god bless you.
Oh yeah and what was also really helpful for me: Try to sleep on your back with no pillow (unless you are badly out of shape or have any other medical reasons not to), that was a huge gamechanger as well.
the same thing happens to me. the moment I realized it in my head, the algorithm showed me this video. it knows us better than we do ourselves, which is generally scary, but in this case it was the blessing we all needed. I love your content doc, keep it up
Man I'm telling you I've recently discovered your channel and right away I know I found something that I can't find anywhere else on UA-cam, gunna start doing dance classes thanks to you. And I'm watching hours and hours of these free lectures you're giving here. Can't thank you enough.
Neal, as a former biomechanical engineer and running athlete, you have reshaped my entire perception of my pelvic and shoulder issues and I've been in much better shape since. Could you make a video sometime talking about your specific educational path through your certifications of PRT, CSCS, LMT? More specifically the order in which you received the certifications and how you made the decision to get specific ones? Not necessarily the inspiration or particular life events that led you down this path, but moreso how the path itself was walked. Much appreciated.
I got my ACE personal training cert first. Then I got my CSCS. Then I found PRI and went through the credentialing process. Then I realized I needed to be more hands on with clients, and for legal protection, got my massage therapist license.
To me this also explains why living authentically is so important for your health and wellbeing. As is surrounding yourself with people that are authentic and unrestrained. What an eye opener! 💜
Neal my left ribs finally fell out of extension after 16 years! My left bite is flatening out. My digestion is improving because i feel fuller now that my torso is untwisting. My left intercostals are now working since my left side is no longer in extension. Thank you for sending me down the right path!❤
What exercises did you use of his to make this progress? I’ve had chronic flare ups and lower back/sacrum/hip pain and glute weakness for 5 years and his foot against the wall exercise felt very hard with right leg up and left leg up my right hip cramped badly. I think it might finally be a light
I just tried this and it's the closest to magic I have ever seen. My mother language is German, then I learned English, then French. I was a very shy kid, but loosened up a lot when I grew up. So I always felt that when I speak English and even more so French, I am a lot more relaxed compared to speaking German, because I learned these languages when I was "outgoing". Lying on my side, my right leg extends way lower up than my left. I then tried speaking french and it moved up way way more. Switched to German, couldn't lift it again. I tried it ten times and still can't believe it. This is the start of something completely new in my journey to restoring my health. Thanks for your video Neal!
I've been stretching for years and yes it does literally nothing. I guess it's addicting though because I still feel like it's something I should be doing.
Well per his advice any kind or movement or non speech action that makes you feel good can relax the body, so stretching can be good helping you relax. It just won't change your posture long term.
Brilliant Neal. I find there is also a strong link between Anger, anxiety, and frustration with the hip flexors. This all links in with what you are saying.
I’m so happy that one of your videos popped up, and that I even decided to watch it. I tried your little trick with the chair and the towel between the legs while just breathing. I have the left hip pain and instability and the right low back problem.I am a professional Base Jumper and my body is pretty beat up. I am trying to do everything I can to tune my body back into a healthy state. The things you are talking about are fascinating. It makes so much sense. I wish I could come see you. Are used to go to school in Lincoln Nebraska, but now I am in Idaho. anyways, thanks for your videos.
I walk 5 miles every morning. I'm 56. I do something that people look at me strangely sometimes. I only walk this way in the morning because covid-19 really screwed me up. I lengthen my stride and push off with my back foot and lead every step with my hip instead of my knee. This makes me lower my pelvis into my load-bearing leg, stretching my tendons and ligaments inside and around my pelvis. Over 3 months, I was able to correct my posture by stretching myself around my tendons that are in pain. I no longer have pain from covid-19 in my tendons and ligaments. Stretching my hip flexors and tendons put everything back in place and allows me to pump blood into my tendons.
I live and care for my grandmother who has a number of legit ailments but who I have observed is very psychosomatic as well. I have been trying to communicate my own intuitive and experiential understanding of this subject to her but her bias is strong toward what her doctors prescribe in most cases. Hopefully she'll be willing to listen to your advice and instruction and we both find some relief. Hate to see her in pain. Thanks for sharing.
This is gonna be esoteric, but I think welcomed considering the nature of this video. Thank you for sharing your knowledge. I am currently going through The Gateway Experience by the Monroe institute. Your name was mentioned in a community forum discussing how to relax the body. I have had chronic tension from past traumas throughout the right side of my body, manifesting itself in dis-ease in the form of Dupuytren’s contracture and Ledderhose disease, among other psoas/diaphragm tension. I have been on the path of health and personal growth for the last 10 years after a very long dark night of the soul. Three years ago, I began a spiritual awakening by beginning to hear certain frequencies (I believe 111hz being the most significant) and began to hum the sound constantly throughout the day. Since then I have experienced profound healing throughout my body. During this time I have also been seeing an acupuncturist and a cranial sacral therapist that have helped tremendously, but I know deep down that the resonance that I am creating in my body through a humming or “oooohing” have profoundly restructured my body. I am a musician, who stopped creating music for nearly a decade after it broke my heart. My greatest pains in life took place in the years following. I am grateful for videos like this that help confirm that my path as an artist is integrally connected to my healing, and unique human experience. Thank you. This is next level consciousness, that is helping to greater expand understanding of this mystical/physical experience. Thank you for your service and sharing you work. I will continue on my path in the arts with even greater peace and understanding of its innate healing. Onwards into the Unknown.
Mine is a different and sadly much less detailed case. More of a hunch really, but anyways if theres a place to talk about it its gotta be here. As a kid i remember that when i was about 4 or 5 something happened that bothered me alot, it wasnt something that you could really complain about, as it wasnt any sort of abuse or ''trauma'' it was something ''dumb'' like i got cut off while saying something by my dad and i forgot and got really frustrated, im not sure it was exactly that but it was something relatively minor like that. I got this deep feeling of ''until i remember this thing and can say it i cant go back to living normally'' and then all my problems began, before that i remembered every day as part of my life, after taht everything started feeling like it was unimportant, until the only thing that remained was ''i dont know why but i know im not living'' the more i look into health the more im scared its gonna come full circle and the seemingly dumb reason for the start of my problems might be the real thing
@@aguspuig6615 Thanks for sharing your story. My two cents for what its worth. Awareness comes first before healing. You have that. Awesome. Healing can take place through numerous modalities. Self Love, Shadow Work, Therapy, Plant Medicine, Compassion Key, Emotion Code, Yoga, Qigong, Sound Healing, etc. You don't always need to know all the details to move energy. You can alchemize the wound, and to a young child, a trauma is a trauma. I have faith you will find the healing you desire if you choose to move towards Love and healing and put fear to the side. God speed on your journey.
Thank you for this. I have been suffering from extremely tight psoas muscles for a few years now, after pulling the illopsoas on my left side during exercise. It has been the worst injury of my life.
Wow! I just stumbled onto this video. I’m 84 and I’ve been trying to connect the dots for more than 20 yrs. It’s myoclonus that shows up in the abdominal area. My muscles contract and release at the rate of two times per second…no exaggeration. A drug calmed it down to once per second but it won’t stop without Valium. This brings me hope….if my old brain can take it in and remember. Thank you so much!❤️
Why are the hip flexors (which are muscles) linked to the brain so affected by brain activity? The other muscles are involuntary… why are hip flexors so different? All my life I wasn’t effected and suddenly after last pregnancy I have huge annoying pain in spine and hip flexor??? Is this a common issue? I’ve never had this pain before in my life. 😡
Thankyou sooooooo much, I am watching your videos one after the other, thankyou for sharing your knowledge! A lot of love and respect from 🇮🇹 Italy, grazie mille
Thank you, your videos are helping me. I have EDS and hPOTS and MCAS. Disabled from iatrogenic medicine (Cipro). Still recovering, a decade later. Still can't sit (or drive) due to nerve pain. People have no clue how difficult life can be when you can't sit at all without pain.
I have to say:THANK YOU SO MUCH,for awaken me up🙏💞When i was younger i danced everyday and my body was not in trouble like now...NOW,i can barely move,and i have pain all over😓I will begin to dance again, everyday and i hope my days forward will start to feel soooo MUCH better🙏💃💖Thank you again,Dr ,for all that you do for us out here suffering and having,Dr.'s that dont understand a thing🙈🙏🩵
@@NealHallinan thank you,i will try to find the book☺️Im from, Norway😅But...,it's funny that you told me about this book,because in my younger days,i always told this to everyone around me that its nothing that is more healthy than dancing...,and like i sayd i danced everyday for about 40 years..,and stopped..,because..,well...,i did not wanted to dance anymore..,then,but i will begin again,and i will not stop now☺️💃👯
Neal!! This is absolutely incredible! I've never heard anything of the sort. I've come across your videos in a desperate attempt to find any info into why my right hip is so sore. Your knowledge and perception is awesome! What to do from here though!!??
I love the visual effects of that model your holding! and it helped so much when you turned it around so it matched my right side/left side as the viewer! When it is held like that I can concentrate so much more on what you are explaining rather than listening to my internal thoughts of “so is that my left… or right.. or forward” 😂😅 Great information!! Glad to have found your channel 🙏🏻
I swear watching people speak different languages or even in accents I was just recently noticing and trying out saying words like they would… and I’d be like dang wow this feels MORE normal than how I regularly use my body to speak!! Great vid!
This was super helpful. Somatic to the max. Comfort on a brain and heart level seems to be the key here. I've always heard in my spirit to dance as my exercise, and now I know why!
17:55 Haha. Maybe this is (in part) why some people love moving to music so much. I mean, I feel like I always have to find the right songs to "feel good", and it makes sense then that the songs that make me feel good also help my movement pattern.
I work in a kitchen, and music is sacred there. We can't quite put into words why it's important. It's more than amusement, morale support, or something to quicken the sense of time. We cook on beat. If you listen close, you'll hear bowls and plates hitting surfaces right on rhythm. People drumming the gunk off their tongs and spoons. You can get some nice triplets while stirring up a square 1/6 insert with a steel ladle. There's almost a Four Humors thing going on, where "hot" / "chill" or "light" / "heavy" music is a discussed idea. When we get surprised by a large walk-in we might go from "Just Piano" by FKJ to "Tick Tick Boom" by the Hives. The idea that it's also critical for our biomechanics is fascinating. The kitchen looks like that Hole In The Wall game, mixed with Twister, plus fireballs and knives, on slippery floors. You get keenly aware of the importance of your stabilizer muscles. But I love the idea that playing music keeps the muscles running optimally. Can't wait to share this with my coworkers. The DJ almost has a managerial role. And if the real manager makes the mistake of turning the music completely off, just because someone was too timid to raise their voice and be heard, that manager becomes everyone's enemy. How do you get someone to stand next to 350 degree machines, blasting columns of greasy steam in your face, under 3 layers of polyester, in a dim smoky cave for 10 hours, for minimum wage? _You keep the music on._
Amazing! Just amazing. This is science in action. The Greek and English language difference was a great observation. There is great wisdom is religions and traditions. They were designed by a power that knows humans much better than themselves. Thanks man.
I was thinking about how two of the big religions have their own language when doing ceremonies. Latin and Hebrew. Maybe this helps to keep their people healthy.
Hi Neal! I discovered you and this branch of biomechanics about a month ago and I find it really interesting and makes complete sense to me, but I find it hard to digest all the valuable information you are transmitting. I think it would be of great value for me and for newcomers if you made some short videos really condensing what you have learned throughout the years as a simple introduction for everyone getting into the space
This is a jewel i literally just watched Doug E Fresh beatboxing (google if you don't know what im saying) he was going on and on and on hes gotta be in his 50s..looks 20s-30s..i said to myself this guys going to live to 100 because his lungs must be in great condition! And he didn't look like he even wanted to stop..i could tell really loved it.. music and rhythm has definitely been good to him!
I want to shake your hand and say THANK YOU so much. I am 60 and when I was in my early 30's I started chiro for a headache situation. It was a course of care that helped many things. At that Time I was told my pelvis was rotated and tipped. I have that slight turnout of my left foot. I have spent 1000's of $$ in a meriad of modalities trying to get myself aligned. Now I can put my money to better uses.
Hi Neal, I am coming back to thank you once again (I was asking you for info regarding polish physios who have PRT training in your other video) - turns out, I didn't had to visit any of them, I just recently discovered how to properly do left ZOA - I thought I am doing it right, but I didn't feel any effects of it. Turns out I was wrong, did it couple of times correctly and I could feel my left diaphragm pulling my ribcage to the left (it was all about proper breathing into posterior ribcage on the left) and I could feel right psoas, QL and abdominals finally getting proper relaxation. Many many thanks :)
I noticed that when I'm walking or cycling and I can see another person doing the same activity in front of me, I immediately feel like I'm in better alignment. That means to me seeing the human body move is neural feedback which can inhibit and activate muscles.
Sounds like I am screwed, as you say around the 14 minute mark. I am working in my home office too much, I am even watching your vids and other vids at the same desk as well as play my guitar and create music at the very same desk. I am not getting out as much as I should be. During covid lockdowns (Melbourne - wolds longest lockdown, great record), my partner and I were walking every day and that seemed to help my hip flexors. Unfortunately, when I went for a walk the other day, it resulted in my hip flexor firing up and since then I haven't slept well and hence haven't been back to walking. I'm pretty close in booking a session, so for now I am trying to make as many notes on myself as possible.
You've shown clearly that simply perceiving generates automatic reactions within us, in real time. As Alan Watts would point out, where do you draw the line between an organism and its environment? The discussion on communication, language and breath... all the great books and references to sound and vibration, music and rhythm... you are bringing these all together in a simple yet profound way, and using the body to prove the principles. Great insight! Excellent work!! Much appreciated :)
Thank you for your comment. That’s exactly what I was trying to demonstrate. It’s amazing how some people hate the same demonstrations that you appreciate. I love Alan Watts (and Joseph Campbell and Eastern philosophy).
Like the shape of the screen we are watching it's a way for us to think about viewing externally and internally. When conceptualizing about any part of the body there is a left right front rear and center. We can not have direction without center.
I have heard of Allen Watts listened to some of his words on boob tube. I have no doubt he has great insights. I could not get past his monotone voice. Which for many I'm sure helps them focus. I want to sleep. Never heard of Joseph Campbell. I guess I have some home work
Neal give them time to come around to those demos. We are not all at the same point in the journey. None the less continue my good man, with the show and all success.
Sir, I believe you, because I am French-Canadian, and sometimes I need to speak in French to access certain things. My mother is francophone. Studies show that babies in the womb if separated from their mother still super quickly pick up their mother's language. I grew up with dad, not mum, but I picked up French SO FAST I sound native, something impossible for almost all French students. I have to listen to French music and films, it's like oxygen for me. I ❤love English, too, Shakespeare and James Joyce. Peace between English and French people. Thanks for your amazing video.
I watch your videos all day and the information resonates so much with my experiences, I owe you a huge thank you for the inspiration and support, and you are the first person I give a subscription to in my life. I have two years after the removal of the L4/5 disc with persistent paresis, mainly of the right leg, other problems with C5/6/7, cervicobrachial syndrome, but since the refusal of surgery in 2019 surprisingly very OK, but with symptoms of instability of the upper C spine, including the "pleasures" associated with n.vagus, dizziness, palpitations, panic attacks and repeated BPPV from the right ear.I feel much better in the last months, work hard again, I have a great need to dance, I always sing in the shower, even if I don't feel like it, I play music at night, and I often exercise my jaw - with your information it makes even more sense. :) I'm trying to walk more, it doesn't hurt so much anymore and I'm not limping too much and I'm trying my best not to live in fear of the future, I'm 42. With your tips, everything seems more cheerful and maybe my story will help someone else, or it will give you a reason to think about people with unilateral paralysis, in my case the leg became numb after compression of the nerve and at the same time became hypersensitive, stiff, often in a cramp, so I would be interested in how such the vestibular system adapts, hopefully for the better, even if I don't really believe it...THANK YOU!
I completely understand what you’re illustrating in these videos, and this is coming from someone who’s worked with a PRI practitioner before. What I don’t understand about PRI is this: How are these brief moments of inhibiting during my PRI session actually making an impact on my brain body relationship to illicit a permanent change? And I mean this sincerely, so yeah you can demonstrate how the rhythm turns off my flexor for a few seconds while I’m in your clinic on that one day of the week, cool. But how is my once a week PRI visit actually making a long term change to my brain body connection? Especially when you consider a person who is suffering from years of chronic pain from hundreds of injuries. Basically Neil I’m just a little stuck on understanding why I should go back to paying 200$ a week to the PRI lady near me
If you are staying neutral, the change has been made. If you can’t stay neutral, then you have to figure out why. If the neck (which includes jaw/teeth/vision) is not an issue, then the vast majority of my clients will maintain a neutral pelvis after the first or second visit.
@@NealHallinan the neck is definitely an issue. Say for example I have jaw, teeth and vision problems, herniated cervical discs I mean literaly all of the above. I can’t conceptualize how the therapy is going to help if I have ALL the issues. It would take years of having braces in my teeth and using certain jaw shaping devices to achieve the desired result no?
Everytime the body does something different,the brain senses it and the body will relax. Exactly like Feldenkrais. Neuroplasticity! Forming new patterns. Inputs from eyes,ears or emotions affect tension of Psoas muscle
I’m confused by you saying most peoples’ backs are arched. I see a lot of people for bodywork and many have an increased kyphosis in the thoracic spine. What am I missing in my understanding?
I’m learning how to roller skate and I’m feeling my heels pressing down as I begin to gain control and I’m learning to turn to the left as I find it’s easier to go right
I watched this video 3 times. After watching it the first time, I made a music play list and listened as I did my daily chores. I found it amazing how much it reduced the pain in my hips and lower body by improving my gait. Thank you! ❤
I often say, "Music moves a body." ❤ It has been observed in patients with Parkinsons and/or dementia that their favorite music, whether by listening or dancing, will bring back physical and mental functions, even if temporarily. My M-I-L lives in constant pain. She walks, or rather "thumps across the floor," bent over and without rhythm. However, put some of her favorite music on, and she can move her body more easily. Myself: I took bellydance classes to improve my core strength, and ended up loving bellydance music. Ten years later, I am still taking classes, and I have very firm abs, stronger legs, and better balance. ❤ To keep myself motivated during boring chores, I listen and "bop" to bellydance music. On occasion, after a couple hours of dancing, I experience "runner's high." Now, excuse me while I go cue up some tunes so I can start doing some chores today. 💃
You put her at ease by asking her to speak in a comfortable language. Hearing foreign tongues triggers flight or fight. Multiculturalism is our strength.
I am new to your channel. Living with an injury that this all resonates so much. I def dance better than walk these days. Intuitively knew this, but your videos validate my experience. Thanks!
GOD of PRI! You help a lot man! After playing a bit with my teeth, my rotations like doubled! Then, hope that my life will be back emerged! Will keep going until hopefully get neutral! Thank you! Bader
I have no problem with abductions. I am good at learning foreign languages, too. And guess what? If I'm down or bored, I jump on my trampoline or dance on my own - almost every day 😅
I have been stretching my hip flexers out to ease lower back pain and improve my squats. Ever since I've been doing it. My squat technique has improved. I also do planks for a stronger core to alleviate lower back pain.
Hello Neal. You videos are great! I was wondering in you could do a video on nerve pain in the t3 and t4 vertebrae (on my left side from my own visual perspective) i have struggled for years with pain and a subluxation in this area and after finding your videos i think it may be due to this postural issue. Any advice is greatly appreciated!
My God, The Alchemist must’ve known this bro This is incredible news ! Knowing how much numerology symbology and etymology is woven into the English language, I wouldn’t a tool surprised if they found a way to make us more susceptible to being controlled and possibly even affect our longevity using frequency and tell you tone The one thing that seems to have been revealed by the research into our mainstream narrative of history, not being accurate, demonstrates that the previous civilisations that left their cathedral, Gothic style buildings, here were creating a music of frequency through their architecture ? No one is entirely sure, certainly among the community that is investigating it over UA-cam and the Internet in general, but we are under the impression they were able to produce free energy using sound, frequency and architecture. I wouldn’t be able to do the exclamation justice, but believe it or not. It’s deeply linked to Tesla coil style machines……… if I find the link, I’ll drop it in the comments Keep up the fantastic work you’re onto something here 😎👍🙏
What do you do when you are living in an environment of stress and negatively? Kind of hard follow all these principles when you dont feel safe and at peace in your own home.
You say sex is a sacred thing that opens our mind and therefore our body... when you asked her to speak Greek you have her say something flirtatious... was that intentional?
This is fascinating. I used to be a ballroom dancer and so much of this made perfect sense to me. My only question is: Is it reversed for dominatly left -handed people? Its my left side that is being pulled down and I have a left lean. I always assumed it was a guarding response from when I had shoulder surgery on left side but that was 12 years ago and I am having issues increasedly more symptoms.
Not really into dancing, but I am going to dance when I cook. Well dance/stretch. When I do stretch I do listen to music, I guess I need to rock on a bit more when stretching. I don't think I will dance/gardening or I think the neighbours will think I have lost the plot. Lol
This is all very interesting, especially about the mind relaxing. Not an advocate for the use of psychedelics, but I did take some mushrooms in Costa Rica once and went to a festival, and was able to pop/crack my right middle finger knuckle for the first time in maybe 5+ years. I guess my mind was in such a relaxed state. This was a knuckle I was trying to crack for 5 years and I couldn’t ever really push bc it would hurt (probably due to an injury that never got checked bc I’m pretty tolerant to pain). Finally I was able to push down for the first time and not feel pain and it popped. And now it’s back to normal. I know it sounds really dumb but it was a bit life changing for me at the time, I felt like something that was physically wrong with me got fixed.
First i want to say thank you for sharing. Second, I must point out your incorrect conclusion about "lifting weights". 15:09 Some common weightlifting movements are unnatural and even counter productive. However if you were placed in the woods and had to survive, like some humans still do and even more had to do in the past, lifting things and pushing and pulling in varying positions is the most natural form of movement I can think of. Artistic expression is a gift that comes only after the survival mechanism is calmed. I dont think these movements and processes have to be mutually exclusive. Weightlifting can and may be the most normal human movement. I suppose the question is which came first? Surviving and building shelter or singing and dancing? Again I appreciate you sharing with us, i just couldnt help but hear that bit and not comment on it.
I’m halfway through and feel really excited I have found you and your tube. Thank you for sharing an in-depth understanding of the human body! Definitely gonna subscribe. Stay Blessed brother!
Was not expecting for you to go into neurology, evolution and communication. The development of the larynx from evolutionary perspective and the neurological connection between laryngeal function, breathing muscles and postural system could be of interest for you (then read about the laryngeal development and functions from Victor Negus, J. Pressman and Eugen Rabine's key to voice (as only English book from him as far as I know)). The vocal folds are neurologically active despite us speaking for other functions related to breathing and posture. I am not surprised by your findings too much. Voice itself as an oscillation, a self repeating movement, that also embodies our relation towards our selves and the world. And that refers already to a "primal" level, to the autonomous nervous system. Voice carries at least information about needs, desires, emotional and physical states and the sorrounding world has been brought up by a primate researcher as form of communication. Vocality nowadays is reduced to being a medium, not a corporeal form of embodiment and relatedness. Orientation plays an important role to listening to voices and in the context of rationality in space as in my opinion, too, and therefore also plays into the same sense for intentionality in us that adjusts our tone, breath and voice in relation to sensation and perception about the in- and outside. So, very fascinating, what you show - especially rhythm is a current subject for me.
when im doing the 90/90 with hip shift, my left si joint keeps getting locked up and requiring a chiropractic adjustment. Any ideas what im doing wrong? Really enjoying all the content
I’d try doing it with two legs and no hip shift. If a left SI joint locks up, there is undoubtedly going to be a “patho” left hip (very unstable). Once that instability is there, your body has to tighten up elsewhere (left lower back, right ad wall/ribcage and right neck). So it’s likely you are using your left lower back to perform the hip shift bc you can’t inhibit the overactivity elsewhere. You really need a therapist to help you figure it out.
This is so interesting and I have to share this with my students . I teach yoga to playlists that are in high demand. I find that my students progress quickly and do amazing things in class. I will share this video and keep the music playing and creativity up
Personally I see it as a 'hack' of the brain in various ways. Good posture is a very much a brain thing and vice versa.Just went into a deep squat while singing songs in my second language 😊
Hey, I appreciate your knowledge. I couldn’t find someone here in Spain. I saw a few videos and my hip twists the opposite. Right to the left. I will search for more content to find the reason. Thanks
Wow -- okay, honestly i'm absolutely saturated with this stuff i 've been looking up things so long after an injury, and , yup - no medical care . I could walk the length of the city and back, now i can't walk my driveway. i could dance for 3 hours. Well you got me in at 4 minutes I have always noticed that my right leg, and even though its injured has more flex that the left - but now it has damage and lack of strength. This year has been terrible for pain in my hip that just turned up - so i start dancing more. And i noticed that if i sang along but didn't use words but just sounds i felt 'looser' - - - more relaxed.
Brilliant!! Such important, powerful information, thank you so much Neal. I notice even changing eye / focal position for varying durations, can have an underestimated, profound effect. I liked, I subscribed.
Yes, there’s a big difference between the arts for fun (inspired from within) and arts being taught as a set of rules and critiques. So be aware, it’s not just dance or art - it’s free dance and free art Ie what you like intuitively. So it’s important to balance free creativity with the discipline and critique of leaning too. Love your videos currently working on my mothers posture - she’s finally accepted some help and you videos mirror my work and findings from muscle response test and posture / moving / observation - so it’s been nice to have another add to the verification and remind me why there are the holistic connections and not get too bio mechanical. I usually work from the thoughts/ emotional but we have a strained relationship so I need to keep it functional. Lol . Cheers
Great points. My favourite dance is the basically free dance of 5 rhythms ...wow can that get me into the zone. And indeed when I teach the arts I always have play at the ready or balance a lesson with some instruction and then do whatever pleases you.
sir thank you again! just by watching people walking to beat turn that mans psoas off is really fascinating. thank you for giving me new insight every time with your video. I hope to pay you a visit in person in Oct (if the NY cervical resolution course is not cancelled because I am taking that course)
Our brain's are always looking to "entrain" with something. His brain entrained with the music and he used his daughter as a metronome. Cervical Rev was a huge "a-ha" moment in my PRI journey.
@@NealHallinan sir do u know how likely for a PRI course to be cancelled? Since there is only one person who applied (me) and I am so nervous that it’s gonna cancel
Maybe it's because you made her feel at ease. I think it's psychosomatic response to stress of being judged. Asking her to speak Greek made her feel superior to you and in control as did the question. This made her feel in control and then the trauma-bracing turned off .
Hey, I'm 3 weeks into debilitating pain. I'm a personal trainer and chef so this has been really really hard on me. Thank you for making me aware of where life will take me. I have a channel where I post about how I lost 100 lb & what works best for my clients. I thought I just had sciatica but no, that is a symptom of my left lateral pelvic Tilt. It sucks starting from square 1 again & again but your channel has given me so much confidence in this area. I'm about to start watching all of your videos. My 90 day transformation starts March 1st. The program has gone from getting ripped to being able to walk - pain free. What a paradigm shift I am going through once again. I'll try not to be a 'psoas' about the hand I've been dealt ;) lol
There are no videos with the quality of yours on youtube. Precious info given away for free, that not even physioterapists tell us patients during the usual appointments. Thank you for your effort.
The most valuable things in life are free 😊
@@H3c171 amen to that
Some physiotherapist do 👌
@@IanL98 well of course, he is one for starters.
@@ok_listen I don't believe he is. He is a licensed massage therapist.
Neal, the information you give is incredible. After decades of debilitating pain and doctors and surgeries, 2 months ago my left leg spun outwards and my psoas and a large chunk of muscles all over started working. Since then it’s felt like I was having a skeletal alignment done every day. I found your channel last week and it was like a punch to the face to watch you describe and outline the relationship to every single problem I have been dealing with. Bombarded with answer after answer to a lifetime of unanswered questions. I’m hopefully going to keep improving and will be seeing the nearest pri trained physio next week. I never post comments but I just wanted to thank you for sharing all this info.
I’m glad it was helpful. Good luck going forward.
Takes forever to get to the point.
The point would be learning.@@jamesg1974a
@@NealHallinanHello Sir, do you still have your symptoms?
@@NealHallinan hello, I am so glad I came across your channel. It somehow makes sense now. In the most videos I have watched you talk about the Left side and mention that the right one is different. Have you made any videos on the right side? I believe I have this problem on the right side with si joint pain, hip pain, shifted pelvis and lately very unstable walking with the Left knee going out of position (i have to put it into position couple of times a day by "shaning" the knee lateraly till it slightly cracks). Thank you very much in advance.
I just stood on my left foot and breathed and 3 years of constant pain stopped. Neal, you are a wizard.
Keep watching his videos. The info will start sinking in and you will be able to apply it for yourself. You know your body better than anyone. Use hos knowledge through his videos for yourself. You can also set up an appointment with him via Zoom for troubleshooting or extra help and even to just get started if you need help sorting it out. Also, check to see if there are any PRI trained people around your area, you may be surprised.
It is unbelievable, i realized for myself that the jaw/hips/spine are connected and 1 day later i find your content, never even searched for anything like this. I also found out within myself that the eyes, heart, solarplexus, gut are also connected (the whole system but these are also major hotspots). The tension and cramps are manifestations of emotional/mental stress and it is all interconnected. I also love how you go into mysticism in your content and that you like to "feel" your body, same as i do. It fills me with great joy that you prove all my suspicions about my body right, and i came to all my conclusion with just introspection and feeling my body and my breath. I do a lot of yoga (propper traditional indian yoga) and it completely changed my life and your work is really helpful in this chapter of my journey. And yeah, breathing is the key to all of this. so happy to have found your channel sir, god bless you.
Oh yeah and what was also really helpful for me: Try to sleep on your back with no pillow (unless you are badly out of shape or have any other medical reasons not to), that was a huge gamechanger as well.
the same thing happens to me. the moment I realized it in my head, the algorithm showed me this video. it knows us better than we do ourselves, which is generally scary, but in this case it was the blessing we all needed. I love your content doc, keep it up
Man I'm telling you I've recently discovered your channel and right away I know I found something that I can't find anywhere else on UA-cam, gunna start doing dance classes thanks to you. And I'm watching hours and hours of these free lectures you're giving here. Can't thank you enough.
🙏🏼🙏🏼I learned the hard way that part of stretching is breathing
This would help explain why people were less aggressive after the Stampede week in Calgary, AB. It's country music everywhere for 10 days straight.
Neal, as a former biomechanical engineer and running athlete, you have reshaped my entire perception of my pelvic and shoulder issues and I've been in much better shape since. Could you make a video sometime talking about your specific educational path through your certifications of PRT, CSCS, LMT?
More specifically the order in which you received the certifications and how you made the decision to get specific ones? Not necessarily the inspiration or particular life events that led you down this path, but moreso how the path itself was walked.
Much appreciated.
Did stretching help ? & have you noticed a difference in how you walk
I would absolutely love to see this video
I got my ACE personal training cert first. Then I got my CSCS. Then I found PRI and went through the credentialing process. Then I realized I needed to be more hands on with clients, and for legal protection, got my massage therapist license.
To me this also explains why living authentically is so important for your health and wellbeing. As is surrounding yourself with people that are authentic and unrestrained. What an eye opener! 💜
Neal my left ribs finally fell out of extension after 16 years! My left bite is flatening out. My digestion is improving because i feel fuller now that my torso is untwisting. My left intercostals are now working since my left side is no longer in extension. Thank you for sending me down the right path!❤
What exercises did you use of his to make this progress? I’ve had chronic flare ups and lower back/sacrum/hip pain and glute weakness for 5 years and his foot against the wall exercise felt very hard with right leg up and left leg up my right hip cramped badly. I think it might finally be a light
@@turtlebananaswlook up dan buglio pain free you
Whoa. Could you tell us what you did for all that release to happen?
I just tried this and it's the closest to magic I have ever seen. My mother language is German, then I learned English, then French. I was a very shy kid, but loosened up a lot when I grew up. So I always felt that when I speak English and even more so French, I am a lot more relaxed compared to speaking German, because I learned these languages when I was "outgoing". Lying on my side, my right leg extends way lower up than my left. I then tried speaking french and it moved up way way more. Switched to German, couldn't lift it again. I tried it ten times and still can't believe it. This is the start of something completely new in my journey to restoring my health. Thanks for your video Neal!
holyyy this is amazing
I've been stretching for years and yes it does literally nothing. I guess it's addicting though because I still feel like it's something I should be doing.
Well per his advice any kind or movement or non speech action that makes you feel good can relax the body, so stretching can be good helping you relax. It just won't change your posture long term.
Brilliant Neal. I find there is also a strong link between Anger, anxiety, and frustration with the hip flexors. This all links in with what you are saying.
In traditional yoga that is exactly the belief.
... and the kidneys!
If only more PT’s and chiros understood that you can’t always power through neurological patterns with manual therapy
That is true. In reality, some people will react poorly to PRI because of those embedded neuro patterns (usually a visual component)
I’m so happy that one of your videos popped up, and that I even decided to watch it. I tried your little trick with the chair and the towel between the legs while just breathing. I have the left hip pain and instability and the right low back problem.I am a professional Base Jumper and my body is pretty beat up. I am trying to do everything I can to tune my body back into a healthy state. The things you are talking about are fascinating. It makes so much sense. I wish I could come see you. Are used to go to school in Lincoln Nebraska, but now I am in Idaho. anyways, thanks for your videos.
The best thing is the bridge exercise.
I walk 5 miles every morning. I'm 56. I do something that people look at me strangely sometimes. I only walk this way in the morning because covid-19 really screwed me up.
I lengthen my stride and push off with my back foot and lead every step with my hip instead of my knee. This makes me lower my pelvis into my load-bearing leg, stretching my tendons and ligaments inside and around my pelvis. Over 3 months, I was able to correct my posture by stretching myself around my tendons that are in pain. I no longer have pain from covid-19 in my tendons and ligaments. Stretching my hip flexors and tendons put everything back in place and allows me to pump blood into my tendons.
I live and care for my grandmother who has a number of legit ailments but who I have observed is very psychosomatic as well. I have been trying to communicate my own intuitive and experiential understanding of this subject to her but her bias is strong toward what her doctors prescribe in most cases. Hopefully she'll be willing to listen to your advice and instruction and we both find some relief. Hate to see her in pain.
Thanks for sharing.
Seeing that thunbnail image i wonder how many cases of tight PSOAS get misdiagnosed as idiopathic scoliosis that "cant be fixed"
This is gonna be esoteric, but I think welcomed considering the nature of this video. Thank you for sharing your knowledge. I am currently going through The Gateway Experience by the Monroe institute. Your name was mentioned in a community forum discussing how to relax the body. I have had chronic tension from past traumas throughout the right side of my body, manifesting itself in dis-ease in the form of Dupuytren’s contracture and Ledderhose disease, among other psoas/diaphragm tension. I have been on the path of health and personal growth for the last 10 years after a very long dark night of the soul. Three years ago, I began a spiritual awakening by beginning to hear certain frequencies (I believe 111hz being the most significant) and began to hum the sound constantly throughout the day. Since then I have experienced profound healing throughout my body. During this time I have also been seeing an acupuncturist and a cranial sacral therapist that have helped tremendously, but I know deep down that the resonance that I am creating in my body through a humming or “oooohing” have profoundly restructured my body. I am a musician, who stopped creating music for nearly a decade after it broke my heart. My greatest pains in life took place in the years following. I am grateful for videos like this that help confirm that my path as an artist is integrally connected to my healing, and unique human experience. Thank you. This is next level consciousness, that is helping to greater expand understanding of this mystical/physical experience. Thank you for your service and sharing you work. I will continue on my path in the arts with even greater peace and understanding of its innate healing. Onwards into the Unknown.
Same I got awakening from weed.
Mine is a different and sadly much less detailed case. More of a hunch really, but anyways if theres a place to talk about it its gotta be here. As a kid i remember that when i was about 4 or 5 something happened that bothered me alot, it wasnt something that you could really complain about, as it wasnt any sort of abuse or ''trauma'' it was something ''dumb'' like i got cut off while saying something by my dad and i forgot and got really frustrated, im not sure it was exactly that but it was something relatively minor like that.
I got this deep feeling of ''until i remember this thing and can say it i cant go back to living normally'' and then all my problems began, before that i remembered every day as part of my life, after taht everything started feeling like it was unimportant, until the only thing that remained was ''i dont know why but i know im not living'' the more i look into health the more im scared its gonna come full circle and the seemingly dumb reason for the start of my problems might be the real thing
@@aguspuig6615 Thanks for sharing your story. My two cents for what its worth. Awareness comes first before healing. You have that. Awesome. Healing can take place through numerous modalities. Self Love, Shadow Work, Therapy, Plant Medicine, Compassion Key, Emotion Code, Yoga, Qigong, Sound Healing, etc. You don't always need to know all the details to move energy. You can alchemize the wound, and to a young child, a trauma is a trauma. I have faith you will find the healing you desire if you choose to move towards Love and healing and put fear to the side. God speed on your journey.
cool stuff Neal tanks mate
Thank you for this. I have been suffering from extremely tight psoas muscles for a few years now, after pulling the illopsoas on my left side during exercise. It has been the worst injury of my life.
How is this supposed to help me when my hip flexors are tight from running? Stretching works.
Wow! I just stumbled onto this video. I’m 84 and I’ve been trying to connect the dots for more than 20 yrs. It’s myoclonus that shows up in the abdominal area. My muscles contract and release at the rate of two times per second…no exaggeration. A drug calmed it down to once per second but it won’t stop without Valium. This brings me hope….if my old brain can take it in and remember. Thank you so much!❤️
the second video I watched from you and I have already learned so much about life as a human being. thank you for sharing your knowledge
I’m left handed. I am extremely tight. Always have been. Is all of this different for left handed people? Thank you
I love your videos and the thought that goes into it. Can you do a video regarding elbow pain ? For combat sports or tennis players ?
Why are the hip flexors (which are muscles) linked to the brain so affected by brain activity? The other muscles are involuntary… why are hip flexors so different?
All my life I wasn’t effected and suddenly after last pregnancy I have huge annoying pain in spine and hip flexor??? Is this a common issue?
I’ve never had this pain before in my life. 😡
Thankyou sooooooo much, I am watching your videos one after the other, thankyou for sharing your knowledge! A lot of love and respect from 🇮🇹 Italy, grazie mille
Legitimately changed my life thank you.
I'm happy to hear that.
Thank you, your videos are helping me. I have EDS and hPOTS and MCAS. Disabled from iatrogenic medicine (Cipro). Still recovering, a decade later. Still can't sit (or drive) due to nerve pain. People have no clue how difficult life can be when you can't sit at all without pain.
I wish you lived near me (ABQ). I am 63 and have given up hope.
What is cipro?
I have the same conditions and problem… just not from cipro?!?
I have to say:THANK YOU SO MUCH,for awaken me up🙏💞When i was younger i danced everyday and my body was not in trouble like now...NOW,i can barely move,and i have pain all over😓I will begin to dance again, everyday and i hope my days forward will start to feel soooo MUCH better🙏💃💖Thank you again,Dr ,for all that you do for us out here suffering and having,Dr.'s that dont understand a thing🙈🙏🩵
You may want to read the book "Dancing is the Best Medicine".
@@NealHallinan thank you,i will try to find the book☺️Im from, Norway😅But...,it's funny that you told me about this book,because in my younger days,i always told this to everyone around me that its nothing that is more healthy than dancing...,and like i sayd i danced everyday for about 40 years..,and stopped..,because..,well...,i did not wanted to dance anymore..,then,but i will begin again,and i will not stop now☺️💃👯
Neal!! This is absolutely incredible! I've never heard anything of the sort. I've come across your videos in a desperate attempt to find any info into why my right hip is so sore. Your knowledge and perception is awesome! What to do from here though!!??
I love the visual effects of that model your holding! and it helped so much when you turned it around so it matched my right side/left side as the viewer! When it is held like that I can concentrate so much more on what you are explaining rather than listening to my internal thoughts of “so is that my left… or right.. or forward” 😂😅
Great information!! Glad to have found your channel 🙏🏻
Glad you enjoyed it. The problem is that I confuse myself when I have to turn the model around....
I swear watching people speak different languages or even in accents I was just recently noticing and trying out saying words like they would… and I’d be like dang wow this feels MORE normal than how I regularly use my body to speak!! Great vid!
This was super helpful. Somatic to the max. Comfort on a brain and heart level seems to be the key here. I've always heard in my spirit to dance as my exercise, and now I know why!
I prey every physical therapist adopt this type of treatment it is a game changer because it works thank god for you Neal
17:55 Haha. Maybe this is (in part) why some people love moving to music so much. I mean, I feel like I always have to find the right songs to "feel good", and it makes sense then that the songs that make me feel good also help my movement pattern.
I work in a kitchen, and music is sacred there. We can't quite put into words why it's important. It's more than amusement, morale support, or something to quicken the sense of time.
We cook on beat. If you listen close, you'll hear bowls and plates hitting surfaces right on rhythm. People drumming the gunk off their tongs and spoons. You can get some nice triplets while stirring up a square 1/6 insert with a steel ladle. There's almost a Four Humors thing going on, where "hot" / "chill" or "light" / "heavy" music is a discussed idea. When we get surprised by a large walk-in we might go from "Just Piano" by FKJ to "Tick Tick Boom" by the Hives.
The idea that it's also critical for our biomechanics is fascinating. The kitchen looks like that Hole In The Wall game, mixed with Twister, plus fireballs and knives, on slippery floors. You get keenly aware of the importance of your stabilizer muscles. But I love the idea that playing music keeps the muscles running optimally. Can't wait to share this with my coworkers.
The DJ almost has a managerial role. And if the real manager makes the mistake of turning the music completely off, just because someone was too timid to raise their voice and be heard, that manager becomes everyone's enemy. How do you get someone to stand next to 350 degree machines, blasting columns of greasy steam in your face, under 3 layers of polyester, in a dim smoky cave for 10 hours, for minimum wage? _You keep the music on._
Amazing! Just amazing. This is science in action. The Greek and English language difference was a great observation. There is great wisdom is religions and traditions. They were designed by a power that knows humans much better than themselves. Thanks man.
I was thinking about how two of the big religions have their own language when doing ceremonies. Latin and Hebrew. Maybe this helps to keep their people healthy.
Hi Neal! I discovered you and this branch of biomechanics about a month ago and I find it really interesting and makes complete sense to me, but I find it hard to digest all the valuable information you are transmitting. I think it would be of great value for me and for newcomers if you made some short videos really condensing what you have learned throughout the years as a simple introduction for everyone getting into the space
🤭 you sound like I did when I took my first course in 2007!
take the PRI courses and then even mentor with Neal if you can!
My clinic in Austin is talking about hosting a course soon... I think we'll be hosting the Pelvic Restoration course
I've been through some heavy grief this past year and am having a terrible bout of sciatica .Hip to foot.
This is a jewel i literally just watched Doug E Fresh beatboxing (google if you don't know what im saying) he was going on and on and on hes gotta be in his 50s..looks 20s-30s..i said to myself this guys going to live to 100 because his lungs must be in great condition! And he didn't look like he even wanted to stop..i could tell really loved it.. music and rhythm has definitely been good to him!
Oh, heck yes! I'm 46. I know exactly what you are talking about. Voice and rhythm are magic for health.
I want to shake your hand and say THANK YOU so much. I am 60 and when I was in my early 30's I started chiro for a headache situation. It was a course of care that helped many things. At that Time I was told my pelvis was rotated and tipped. I have that slight turnout of my left foot. I have spent 1000's of $$ in a meriad of modalities trying to get myself aligned. Now I can put my money to better uses.
Hi Neal, I am coming back to thank you once again (I was asking you for info regarding polish physios who have PRT training in your other video) - turns out, I didn't had to visit any of them, I just recently discovered how to properly do left ZOA - I thought I am doing it right, but I didn't feel any effects of it. Turns out I was wrong, did it couple of times correctly and I could feel my left diaphragm pulling my ribcage to the left (it was all about proper breathing into posterior ribcage on the left) and I could feel right psoas, QL and abdominals finally getting proper relaxation. Many many thanks :)
I noticed that when I'm walking or cycling and I can see another person doing the same activity in front of me, I immediately feel like I'm in better alignment. That means to me seeing the human body move is neural feedback which can inhibit and activate muscles.
yes!!! pretty much the only time I can get my body to feel properly aligned is if I visualise someone I've seen walking in proper alignment
@@crunchysscorpionit's like magic. Tells me we don't actually know where our body is in space. Spending too much time in our own heads probably.
@@HairyPixels agreed!
Sounds like I am screwed, as you say around the 14 minute mark. I am working in my home office too much, I am even watching your vids and other vids at the same desk as well as play my guitar and create music at the very same desk. I am not getting out as much as I should be. During covid lockdowns (Melbourne - wolds longest lockdown, great record), my partner and I were walking every day and that seemed to help my hip flexors. Unfortunately, when I went for a walk the other day, it resulted in my hip flexor firing up and since then I haven't slept well and hence haven't been back to walking. I'm pretty close in booking a session, so for now I am trying to make as many notes on myself as possible.
You've shown clearly that simply perceiving generates automatic reactions within us, in real time. As Alan Watts would point out, where do you draw the line between an organism and its environment? The discussion on communication, language and breath... all the great books and references to sound and vibration, music and rhythm... you are bringing these all together in a simple yet profound way, and using the body to prove the principles. Great insight! Excellent work!! Much appreciated :)
Thank you for your comment. That’s exactly what I was trying to demonstrate. It’s amazing how some people hate the same demonstrations that you appreciate. I love Alan Watts (and Joseph Campbell and Eastern philosophy).
Like the shape of the screen we are watching it's a way for us to think about viewing externally and internally. When conceptualizing about any part of the body there is a left right front rear and center. We can not have direction without center.
I have heard of Allen Watts listened to some of his words on boob tube. I have no doubt he has great insights. I could not get past his monotone voice. Which for many I'm sure helps them focus. I want to sleep. Never heard of Joseph Campbell. I guess I have some home work
Neal give them time to come around to those demos. We are not all at the same point in the journey. None the less continue my good man, with the show and all success.
If any what should I absolutely look into on Allen or Joseph? TY in advance
Sir, I believe you, because I am French-Canadian, and sometimes I need to speak in French to access certain things. My mother is francophone. Studies show that babies in the womb if separated from their mother still super quickly pick up their mother's language. I grew up with dad, not mum, but I picked up French SO FAST I sound native, something impossible for almost all French students. I have to listen to French music and films, it's like oxygen for me. I ❤love English, too, Shakespeare and James Joyce. Peace between English and French people. Thanks for your amazing video.
Do you have suggestions for good films or tv shows in french?
I watch your videos all day and the information resonates so much with my experiences, I owe you a huge thank you for the inspiration and support, and you are the first person I give a subscription to in my life. I have two years after the removal of the L4/5 disc with persistent paresis, mainly of the right leg, other problems with C5/6/7, cervicobrachial syndrome, but since the refusal of surgery in 2019 surprisingly very OK, but with symptoms of instability of the upper C spine, including the "pleasures" associated with n.vagus, dizziness, palpitations, panic attacks and repeated BPPV from the right ear.I feel much better in the last months, work hard again, I have a great need to dance, I always sing in the shower, even if I don't feel like it, I play music at night, and I often exercise my jaw - with your information it makes even more sense. :) I'm trying to walk more, it doesn't hurt so much anymore and I'm not limping too much and I'm trying my best not to live in fear of the future, I'm 42. With your tips, everything seems more cheerful and maybe my story will help someone else, or it will give you a reason to think about people with unilateral paralysis, in my case the leg became numb after compression of the nerve and at the same time became hypersensitive, stiff, often in a cramp, so I would be interested in how such the vestibular system adapts, hopefully for the better, even if I don't really believe it...THANK YOU!
I completely understand what you’re illustrating in these videos, and this is coming from someone who’s worked with a PRI practitioner before. What I don’t understand about PRI is this:
How are these brief moments of inhibiting during my PRI session actually making an impact on my brain body relationship to illicit a permanent change? And I mean this sincerely, so yeah you can demonstrate how the rhythm turns off my flexor for a few seconds while I’m in your clinic on that one day of the week, cool. But how is my once a week PRI visit actually making a long term change to my brain body connection? Especially when you consider a person who is suffering from years of chronic pain from hundreds of injuries.
Basically Neil I’m just a little stuck on understanding why I should go back to paying 200$ a week to the PRI lady near me
If you are staying neutral, the change has been made. If you can’t stay neutral, then you have to figure out why. If the neck (which includes jaw/teeth/vision) is not an issue, then the vast majority of my clients will maintain a neutral pelvis after the first or second visit.
@@NealHallinan the neck is definitely an issue. Say for example I have jaw, teeth and vision problems, herniated cervical discs I mean literaly all of the above. I can’t conceptualize how the therapy is going to help if I have ALL the issues.
It would take years of having braces in my teeth and using certain jaw shaping devices to achieve the desired result no?
Everytime the body does something different,the brain senses it and the body will relax. Exactly like Feldenkrais. Neuroplasticity! Forming new patterns. Inputs from eyes,ears or emotions affect tension of Psoas muscle
I’m confused by you saying most peoples’ backs are arched. I see a lot of people for bodywork and many have an increased kyphosis in the thoracic spine. What am I missing in my understanding?
I’m learning how to roller skate and I’m feeling my heels pressing down as I begin to gain control and I’m learning to turn to the left as I find it’s easier to go right
I used to do so much sound healing................and i felt/experienced a lot of healing. Know all this makes sense!
Well this is awesome! It’s interesting how the body responds to community ideals such as dancing, music, even by just viewing it! Thank you!
I watched this video 3 times. After watching it the first time, I made a music play list and listened as I did my daily chores. I found it amazing how much it reduced the pain in my hips and lower body by improving my gait. Thank you! ❤
I often say, "Music moves a body." ❤
It has been observed in patients with Parkinsons and/or dementia that their favorite music, whether by listening or dancing, will bring back physical and mental functions, even if temporarily.
My M-I-L lives in constant pain. She walks, or rather "thumps across the floor," bent over and without rhythm. However, put some of her favorite music on, and she can move her body more easily.
Myself: I took bellydance classes to improve my core strength, and ended up loving bellydance music. Ten years later, I am still taking classes, and I have very firm abs, stronger legs, and better balance. ❤ To keep myself motivated during boring chores, I listen and "bop" to bellydance music. On occasion, after a couple hours of dancing, I experience "runner's high."
Now, excuse me while I go cue up some tunes so I can start doing some chores today. 💃
Does right dominance apply if your left handed. ?
Yes, it does.
You put her at ease by asking her to speak in a comfortable language. Hearing foreign tongues triggers flight or fight. Multiculturalism is our strength.
Do you recommend teeth extractions to solve bite imbalances or it won’t solve it or make it worse?
I am new to your channel. Living with an injury that this all resonates so much. I def dance better than walk these days. Intuitively knew this, but your videos validate my experience. Thanks!
GOD of PRI!
You help a lot man! After playing a bit with my teeth, my rotations like doubled! Then, hope that my life will be back emerged! Will keep going until hopefully get neutral!
Thank you!
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I have no problem with abductions. I am good at learning foreign languages, too. And guess what? If I'm down or bored, I jump on my trampoline or dance on my own - almost every day 😅
Trying to think of the word but metaphysics??
I have been stretching my hip flexers out to ease lower back pain and improve my squats. Ever since I've been doing it. My squat technique has improved. I also do planks for a stronger core to alleviate lower back pain.
Hello Neal. You videos are great! I was wondering in you could do a video on nerve pain in the t3 and t4 vertebrae (on my left side from my own visual perspective) i have struggled for years with pain and a subluxation in this area and after finding your videos i think it may be due to this postural issue. Any advice is greatly appreciated!
My God, The Alchemist must’ve known this bro
This is incredible news !
Knowing how much numerology symbology and etymology is woven into the English language, I wouldn’t a tool surprised if they found a way to make us more susceptible to being controlled and possibly even affect our longevity using frequency and tell you tone
The one thing that seems to have been revealed by the research into our mainstream narrative of history, not being accurate, demonstrates that the previous civilisations that left their cathedral, Gothic style buildings, here were creating a music of frequency through their architecture ?
No one is entirely sure, certainly among the community that is investigating it over UA-cam and the Internet in general, but we are under the impression they were able to produce free energy using sound, frequency and architecture. I wouldn’t be able to do the exclamation justice, but believe it or not. It’s deeply linked to Tesla coil style machines……… if I find the link, I’ll drop it in the comments
Keep up the fantastic work you’re onto something here 😎👍🙏
Interested in how this can further relate to musicians. Singers.. etc. I have dealt with a stutter ...but not when I sing!
What do you do when you are living in an environment of stress and negatively? Kind of hard follow all these principles when you dont feel safe and at peace in your own home.
You say sex is a sacred thing that opens our mind and therefore our body... when you asked her to speak Greek you have her say something flirtatious... was that intentional?
This is fascinating. I used to be a ballroom dancer and so much of this made perfect sense to me. My only question is: Is it reversed for dominatly left -handed people? Its my left side that is being pulled down and I have a left lean. I always assumed it was a guarding response from when I had shoulder surgery on left side but that was 12 years ago and I am having issues increasedly more symptoms.
Not really into dancing, but I am going to dance when I cook. Well dance/stretch. When I do stretch I do listen to music, I guess I need to rock on a bit more when stretching. I don't think I will dance/gardening or I think the neighbours will think I have lost the plot. Lol
This is all very interesting, especially about the mind relaxing. Not an advocate for the use of psychedelics, but I did take some mushrooms in Costa Rica once and went to a festival, and was able to pop/crack my right middle finger knuckle for the first time in maybe 5+ years. I guess my mind was in such a relaxed state. This was a knuckle I was trying to crack for 5 years and I couldn’t ever really push bc it would hurt (probably due to an injury that never got checked bc I’m pretty tolerant to pain). Finally I was able to push down for the first time and not feel pain and it popped. And now it’s back to normal. I know it sounds really dumb but it was a bit life changing for me at the time, I felt like something that was physically wrong with me got fixed.
Envision is nice
First i want to say thank you for sharing. Second, I must point out your incorrect conclusion about "lifting weights". 15:09
Some common weightlifting movements are unnatural and even counter productive. However if you were placed in the woods and had to survive, like some humans still do and even more had to do in the past, lifting things and pushing and pulling in varying positions is the most natural form of movement I can think of. Artistic expression is a gift that comes only after the survival mechanism is calmed. I dont think these movements and processes have to be mutually exclusive.
Weightlifting can and may be the most normal human movement. I suppose the question is which came first? Surviving and building shelter or singing and dancing?
Again I appreciate you sharing with us, i just couldnt help but hear that bit and not comment on it.
I’m halfway through and feel really excited I have found you and your tube. Thank you for sharing an in-depth understanding of the human body! Definitely gonna subscribe. Stay Blessed brother!
Your the fuk’n man ❤️ thank you 🙏🏾 8 yrs looking for this answer
Do you have any videos regarding right shoulder pain or shoulders in general. Thanks in a lot of pain Tiffany
Was not expecting for you to go into neurology, evolution and communication. The development of the larynx from evolutionary perspective and the neurological connection between laryngeal function, breathing muscles and postural system could be of interest for you (then read about the laryngeal development and functions from Victor Negus, J. Pressman and Eugen Rabine's key to voice (as only English book from him as far as I know)). The vocal folds are neurologically active despite us speaking for other functions related to breathing and posture. I am not surprised by your findings too much. Voice itself as an oscillation, a self repeating movement, that also embodies our relation towards our selves and the world. And that refers already to a "primal" level, to the autonomous nervous system. Voice carries at least information about needs, desires, emotional and physical states and the sorrounding world has been brought up by a primate researcher as form of communication. Vocality nowadays is reduced to being a medium, not a corporeal form of embodiment and relatedness. Orientation plays an important role to listening to voices and in the context of rationality in space as in my opinion, too, and therefore also plays into the same sense for intentionality in us that adjusts our tone, breath and voice in relation to sensation and perception about the in- and outside. So, very fascinating, what you show - especially rhythm is a current subject for me.
when im doing the 90/90 with hip shift, my left si joint keeps getting locked up and requiring a chiropractic adjustment. Any ideas what im doing wrong?
Really enjoying all the content
I’d try doing it with two legs and no hip shift. If a left SI joint locks up, there is undoubtedly going to be a “patho” left hip (very unstable). Once that instability is there, your body has to tighten up elsewhere (left lower back, right ad wall/ribcage and right neck). So it’s likely you are using your left lower back to perform the hip shift bc you can’t inhibit the overactivity elsewhere. You really need a therapist to help you figure it out.
@@NealHallinan awesome, sounds good. I have an appointment at the end of this month! Thank you!
You are amazing: your knowledge and passion but you also manage to spread this enthusiasm and knowledge to others.
Thank you.
Man this is complicated lol gunna take a while to wrap my pea brain around what is going on
This is so interesting and I have to share this with my students . I teach yoga to playlists that are in high demand. I find that my students progress quickly and do amazing things in class. I will share this video and keep the music playing and creativity up
Can you post a list of the books you have stacked over there please?!
everything your teaching sir, ppl are listening and your communication is very gd clear and understanding thank you
I'm curious as to why Neal didn't want to say the word _"evolution."_
I'm lost. What's the take home work we can do? Dance and speak a foreign language? I need actionable things, but can't grasp what I should do.
Personally I see it as a 'hack' of the brain in various ways. Good posture is a very much a brain thing and vice versa.Just went into a deep squat while singing songs in my second language 😊
Agreed
And breath. Focus alot on breathing which u also so when good singing...and dance, Just do 10 mitnues of Salsa steps at home
A harmonic balance of awareness, breathing, and releasing tension therefore
Hey, I appreciate your knowledge. I couldn’t find someone here in Spain. I saw a few videos and my hip twists the opposite. Right to the left. I will search for more content to find the reason. Thanks
Wow -- okay, honestly i'm absolutely saturated with this stuff i 've been looking up things so long after an injury, and , yup - no medical care . I could walk the length of the city and back, now i can't walk my driveway. i could dance for 3 hours. Well you got me in at 4 minutes I have always noticed that my right leg, and even though its injured has more flex that the left - but now it has damage and lack of strength. This year has been terrible for pain in my hip that just turned up - so i start dancing more. And i noticed that if i sang along but didn't use words but just sounds i felt 'looser' - - - more relaxed.
Brilliant!! Such important, powerful information, thank you so much Neal. I notice even changing eye / focal position for varying durations, can have an underestimated, profound effect. I liked, I subscribed.
Yes, there’s a big difference between the arts for fun (inspired from within) and arts being taught as a set of rules and critiques. So be aware, it’s not just dance or art - it’s free dance and free art Ie what you like intuitively. So it’s important to balance free creativity with the discipline and critique of leaning too. Love your videos currently working on my mothers posture - she’s finally accepted some help and you videos mirror my work and findings from muscle response test and posture / moving / observation - so it’s been nice to have another add to the verification and remind me why there are the holistic connections and not get too bio mechanical. I usually work from the thoughts/ emotional but we have a strained relationship so I need to keep it functional. Lol . Cheers
Great points. My favourite dance is the basically free dance of 5 rhythms ...wow can that get me into the zone. And indeed when I teach the arts I always have play at the ready or balance a lesson with some instruction and then do whatever pleases you.
sir thank you again! just by watching people walking to beat turn that mans psoas off is really fascinating. thank you for giving me new insight every time with your video. I hope to pay you a visit in person in Oct (if the NY cervical resolution course is not cancelled because I am taking that course)
Our brain's are always looking to "entrain" with something. His brain entrained with the music and he used his daughter as a metronome. Cervical Rev was a huge "a-ha" moment in my PRI journey.
@@NealHallinan sir do u know how likely for a PRI course to be cancelled? Since there is only one person who applied (me) and I am so nervous that it’s gonna cancel
I absolutely love this. Thank you so freaking much for being ahead of the game you do a really good job with that
These are some the best videos for self he@ling. Thank you, Neal.
Maybe it's because you made her feel at ease. I think it's psychosomatic response to stress of being judged. Asking her to speak Greek made her feel superior to you and in control as did the question. This made her feel in control and then the trauma-bracing turned off .
Bloody 40 hr a week computer job 😢
Thank you so much!!!
You are amazing! Thank you for teaching, helping and caring. ❤
Thank you Neal, this is world changing research and findings! Turning on the music right NOW :D Peace!
Hey, I'm 3 weeks into debilitating pain. I'm a personal trainer and chef so this has been really really hard on me. Thank you for making me aware of where life will take me. I have a channel where I post about how I lost 100 lb & what works best for my clients.
I thought I just had sciatica but no, that is a symptom of my left lateral pelvic Tilt.
It sucks starting from square 1 again & again but your channel has given me so much confidence in this area. I'm about to start watching all of your videos.
My 90 day transformation starts March 1st. The program has gone from getting ripped to being able to walk - pain free.
What a paradigm shift I am going through once again.
I'll try not to be a 'psoas' about the hand I've been dealt ;) lol
You are absolutely right. I have been suffering with hip flexor problems since i was 8 years old.