When people first find out how much effort it takes to lengthen their torso, to lift their ribcage and stretch their fascia, they often wonder how it could be possible to maintain that lengthening? How could one exert that much all the time? In this video, we look at why it will not always feel like such an effort to lengthen, and how our fascia, when it's working properly, creates mechanical advantage that we didn't have before. I offer lessons in the Initial Alexander Technique, which are conducted one-on-one with a teacher over Zoom. They are designed to help you gain conscious control over how you move your body. Most people have no idea what they’re doing with their body, and as they misuse their body, they end up with discomfort, pain, and other issues that they may not even realize are caused by what they’re doing to themselves. But how do you figure out what you’re doing wrong? And how do you change what you're doing and overcome lifelong habits? In an Initial Alexander Technique lesson, you will record yourself through Zoom, so you will be able to see and understand what you are doing when you stand, sit, walk, and perform other simple gestures. With the assistance of your teacher, you will come to understand how you are misusing the mechanisms of your body, and you will gain the ability to choose to use yourself in a more sensible way. You can learn how to use your body without pain. You can break free from long held habits. All you need is a system that works. For more information or to book a lesson, please visit my website: mechanicsofpoise.com/ You can contact me at: We need some axioms for our system to get going, so in this video we look at what we can use as the basis for defining success in improving your posture. By comparing what the strengthening/stretching system says with what the conscious guidance and control system says, we can begin to understand why the two system use such different methods and gain such different results. There are some audio issues in this video, but nothing too bad. Some of the images used in the video were made by Jeando Masoero. I offer lessons in the Initial Alexander Technique, which are conducted one-on-one with a teacher over Zoom. They are designed to help you gain conscious control over how you move your body. Most people have no idea what they’re doing with their body, and as they misuse their body, they end up with discomfort, pain, and other issues that they may not even realize are caused by what they’re doing to themselves. But how do you figure out what you’re doing wrong? And how do you change what you're doing and overcome lifelong habits? In an Initial Alexander Technique lesson, you will record yourself through Zoom, so you will be able to see and understand what you are doing when you stand, sit, walk, and perform other simple gestures. With the assistance of your teacher, you will come to understand how you are misusing the mechanisms of your body, and you will gain the ability to choose to use yourself in a more sensible way. You can learn how to use your body without pain. You can break free from long held habits. All you need is a system that works. For more information or to book a lesson, please visit my website: mechanicsofpoise.com/ You can contact me at: Delsartelessons@protonmail.com "In view of the nature of the geometry of the human structure, it is clear that the resulting lengthening contractions or antagonistic pulls would be maximum when the stature or skeletal chain is maximally lengthening, the exact condition of co-ordinated support that we have studied; while these contractions would use a lot less energy than the shortening contractions of the habitual reaction, they would be ideal to (provide a “position of rigidity”) resist elastically an imposed load, freeing the joints, and to adapt dynamically to control the displacement of a load." Jeando Masoero "In this way, the correct use of the musculoskeletal mechanism encourages true “non-doing” and a state of responsiveness and flexibility of execution in the motor system. Non-doing is not an intention, it is the result of a correct use of the musculoskeletal system." Jeando Masoero
Okay but isn’t the shoulder position is wrong? I’ve heard about sleeping on hard floor so you get your back straight and I think it’s for the same cause you’re talking about but the shoulder and the neck positioning looks wrong to me
This is sooo true And since the lower part is what affects the upper , pelvis is what affects the head >>> the knees position what affects the pelvis . Notice how the optimal posture can be achieved only by bending the knees slightly .
Hi we are waiting for the video dedicated to mewing and root cause of facial asymmetry and how to correct it post puberty. Needless to say all of your other videos are also extremely informative and helpful. Keep up the good work!
My mewing video will be coming this summer! The root cause of asymmetry anywhere in the body, including the face, is subconscious shortening, narrowing, and twisting movements that make the fascia limp. The solution is to use conscious guidance and control to undo your subconscious habits and gain the mechanical advantage that taut fascia provides.
Would getting a back brace be a good accessory to help aid the progress? Also once the fascia is taut, it will make the movements easier and less of a strain but we would still need to consciously do the movements and adjustments?
No, a back brace would have the opposite effect and encourage you to rely on it instead of your own body. You will still need directions, especially when doing any kind of complex gesture, and periodic adjustments will be useful, but should not be needed as frequently as they are in the beginning.
But how does this work? In order to keep the elastic taut, you have to exert energy to maintain its elongated state. Why would I not be straining all the time to stand in what looks to me like bending forward unnecessarily? This seems extremely difficult to do
The idea I was trying to get across here is that you are not elongating to some unimaginable length, you are undoing the habitual shortening that you’ve been doing. Maybe think about it like this. If you were a prisoner and someone tortured you in a way where you had to stand in a cell that was too short for you to stand in, over time you would become hunched over. Let’s say you got released after a few years like this. It would feel like an incredible strain to stand up straight once you got out of the cell. It would feel like it required a straining effort just to stand up as you had done before. But really, you know that the muscles are capable of keeping you un-hunched, it only feels like a lot of work because you were hunched for so long. That is the situation most people find themselves in. It’s not as extreme as the example above, obviously, but it’s the same principle. Your muscles are capable of sustaining ribcage up and your fascia taut. And further, once the fascia is taut, it will provide you with leverage that you don’t currently have, meaning it will become easier. But yes, at first, there it’s going to feel like a lot of work because you’re trying to get out of habit you’ve had for ten plus years.
When doing the directions, how much force should we put into the directions? I feel more a stretch when I try to put at as much force as I can in all directions, although it can make me feel a little tight. Is this the optimal way of doing it? Thanks.
I don’t advise exercises. In my view, what people need are directions. Most people would be best to simply start by applying their directions while standing or sitting in a chair. That alone is enough of a challenge for most, there’s no need to add weights or more complex gestures.
Most people, even those without any “real scoliosis,” are twisted. This twists the pelvis, ribcage, limbs, and neck/head. Working with the pelvis will help, but it goes all the way down the legs into the feet. Make sure you’re not allowing one ankle to un-screw and rotate out. You want your weight going through the inside of the feet, but don’t collapse the foot to do that, use the screwing of the ankle in, heel out, and make sure to keep the iliacs back and up.
You should have your core and glutes activated, at least in ballet it is mandatory - to keep balance at all times. You can check out what ballet posture looks like e.g. in "Carmen-Suite 1975" by Plisetskaya and Godunov - there is plenty of posturing in that piece.
I find that to make my iliacs go back and up I tend to activate the core in order to achieve that so perhaps this is already included in the torso series
I’m teaching a system of conscious guidance and control, which is all about using your conscious mind to intentionally change how you use yourself. When you sleep, you’re unconscious, so it’s very hard to control anything. You’re essentially going to just fall into whatever your habit is. What’s going to make the biggest difference is what you do while awake. By changing your habits while awake, that will change the habit you fall into while sleeping. That said, the general parameters of the model apply to sleeping. So I would not recommend sleeping on your back in such a way that your ear is lower than your sternum. But realistically, you’re going to roll around a bit while you sleep, so setting yourself up in a perfect position isn’t typically going to last.
My problem is that left side of my face is recessed compared to the right side. I also had uneven shoulders untill recently wherein the right shoulder was higher compared to the left which caused severe muscular pain in the right side. I have seen huge improvements applying what you teach and i am forever grateful for that. My big goal in life is to be extremely good looking, Facial symmetry is very important for that. What do you think can help achieve full facial symmetry?
When people first find out how much effort it takes to lengthen their torso, to lift their ribcage and stretch their fascia, they often wonder how it could be possible to maintain that lengthening? How could one exert that much all the time? In this video, we look at why it will not always feel like such an effort to lengthen, and how our fascia, when it's working properly, creates mechanical advantage that we didn't have before.
I offer lessons in the Initial Alexander Technique, which are conducted one-on-one with a teacher over Zoom. They are designed to help you gain conscious control over how you move your body. Most people have no idea what they’re doing with their body, and as they misuse their body, they end up with discomfort, pain, and other issues that they may not even realize are caused by what they’re doing to themselves. But how do you figure out what you’re doing wrong? And how do you change what you're doing and overcome lifelong habits?
In an Initial Alexander Technique lesson, you will record yourself through Zoom, so you will be able to see and understand what you are doing when you stand, sit, walk, and perform other simple gestures. With the assistance of your teacher, you will come to understand how you are misusing the mechanisms of your body, and you will gain the ability to choose to use yourself in a more sensible way. You can learn how to use your body without pain. You can break free from long held habits. All you need is a system that works.
For more information or to book a lesson, please visit my website: mechanicsofpoise.com/
You can contact me at: We need some axioms for our system to get going, so in this video we look at what we can use as the basis for defining success in improving your posture. By comparing what the strengthening/stretching system says with what the conscious guidance and control system says, we can begin to understand why the two system use such different methods and gain such different results.
There are some audio issues in this video, but nothing too bad.
Some of the images used in the video were made by Jeando Masoero.
I offer lessons in the Initial Alexander Technique, which are conducted one-on-one with a teacher over Zoom. They are designed to help you gain conscious control over how you move your body. Most people have no idea what they’re doing with their body, and as they misuse their body, they end up with discomfort, pain, and other issues that they may not even realize are caused by what they’re doing to themselves. But how do you figure out what you’re doing wrong? And how do you change what you're doing and overcome lifelong habits?
In an Initial Alexander Technique lesson, you will record yourself through Zoom, so you will be able to see and understand what you are doing when you stand, sit, walk, and perform other simple gestures. With the assistance of your teacher, you will come to understand how you are misusing the mechanisms of your body, and you will gain the ability to choose to use yourself in a more sensible way. You can learn how to use your body without pain. You can break free from long held habits. All you need is a system that works.
For more information or to book a lesson, please visit my website: mechanicsofpoise.com/
You can contact me at: Delsartelessons@protonmail.com
"In view of the nature of the geometry of the human structure, it is clear that the resulting lengthening contractions or antagonistic pulls would be maximum when the stature or skeletal chain is maximally lengthening, the exact condition of co-ordinated support that we have studied; while these contractions would use a lot less energy than the shortening contractions of the habitual reaction, they would be ideal to (provide a “position of rigidity”) resist elastically an imposed load, freeing the joints, and to adapt dynamically to control the displacement of a load."
Jeando Masoero
"In this way, the correct use of the musculoskeletal mechanism encourages true “non-doing” and a state of responsiveness and flexibility of execution in the motor system. Non-doing is not an intention, it is the result of a correct use of the musculoskeletal system."
Jeando Masoero
This is pure gold, it will just take time before people discover this
Okay but isn’t the shoulder position is wrong? I’ve heard about sleeping on hard floor so you get your back straight and I think it’s for the same cause you’re talking about but the shoulder and the neck positioning looks wrong to me
This is sooo true And since the lower part is what affects the upper , pelvis is what affects the head >>> the knees position what affects the pelvis .
Notice how the optimal posture can be achieved only by bending the knees slightly .
Bro you in the physio matrix 😂
Do you have a video for how to sit cross legged on a bed or on the floor?
This is pure gold! Thank you
Good day! How long it took your body to fully reconstruct, including bones, fascia and muscles for good posture ?
Hi we are waiting for the video dedicated to mewing and root cause of facial asymmetry and how to correct it post puberty.
Needless to say all of your other videos are also extremely informative and helpful. Keep up the good work!
My mewing video will be coming this summer! The root cause of asymmetry anywhere in the body, including the face, is subconscious shortening, narrowing, and twisting movements that make the fascia limp. The solution is to use conscious guidance and control to undo your subconscious habits and gain the mechanical advantage that taut fascia provides.
Tremendo canal me acabo de encontrar 🙏
another great visual
Would getting a back brace be a good accessory to help aid the progress? Also once the fascia is taut, it will make the movements easier and less of a strain but we would still need to consciously do the movements and adjustments?
No, a back brace would have the opposite effect and encourage you to rely on it instead of your own body. You will still need directions, especially when doing any kind of complex gesture, and periodic adjustments will be useful, but should not be needed as frequently as they are in the beginning.
i have noticed that my touge produces more forces when swalloing, paus. my head also feels long and surdy
But how does this work? In order to keep the elastic taut, you have to exert energy to maintain its elongated state. Why would I not be straining all the time to stand in what looks to me like bending forward unnecessarily? This seems extremely difficult to do
The idea I was trying to get across here is that you are not elongating to some unimaginable length, you are undoing the habitual shortening that you’ve been doing.
Maybe think about it like this. If you were a prisoner and someone tortured you in a way where you had to stand in a cell that was too short for you to stand in, over time you would become hunched over. Let’s say you got released after a few years like this. It would feel like an incredible strain to stand up straight once you got out of the cell. It would feel like it required a straining effort just to stand up as you had done before. But really, you know that the muscles are capable of keeping you un-hunched, it only feels like a lot of work because you were hunched for so long.
That is the situation most people find themselves in. It’s not as extreme as the example above, obviously, but it’s the same principle. Your muscles are capable of sustaining ribcage up and your fascia taut. And further, once the fascia is taut, it will provide you with leverage that you don’t currently have, meaning it will become easier. But yes, at first, there it’s going to feel like a lot of work because you’re trying to get out of habit you’ve had for ten plus years.
Thanks for that mate g,d bless you and your family.
When doing the directions, how much force should we put into the directions? I feel more a stretch when I try to put at as much force as I can in all directions, although it can make me feel a little tight. Is this the optimal way of doing it? Thanks.
Please tell us some exercise 🙄🫶🏼
I don’t advise exercises. In my view, what people need are directions. Most people would be best to simply start by applying their directions while standing or sitting in a chair. That alone is enough of a challenge for most, there’s no need to add weights or more complex gestures.
Do you know why rib flares happen only on one side? I have a problem like that and im guessing its pelvis related but just want to hear your opinion
Most people, even those without any “real scoliosis,” are twisted. This twists the pelvis, ribcage, limbs, and neck/head. Working with the pelvis will help, but it goes all the way down the legs into the feet. Make sure you’re not allowing one ankle to un-screw and rotate out. You want your weight going through the inside of the feet, but don’t collapse the foot to do that, use the screwing of the ankle in, heel out, and make sure to keep the iliacs back and up.
@@delsartealexandermasoeroyo9147 Thanks for the answer and the videos. You've been a great help
Also one of my wisdom tooth is trying to come out from a wrong place. Do you think fixing my fascia would fix it?
@@horshorson8198 In the long run, probably, but if the tooth is coming in now, then doubtful.
And thanks for watching!
You should have your core and glutes activated, at least in ballet it is mandatory - to keep balance at all times. You can check out what ballet posture looks like e.g. in "Carmen-Suite 1975" by Plisetskaya and Godunov - there is plenty of posturing in that piece.
I find that to make my iliacs go back and up I tend to activate the core in order to achieve that so perhaps this is already included in the torso series
This is a game changer! Do you have any advice on how to sleep in what position?
I’m teaching a system of conscious guidance and control, which is all about using your conscious mind to intentionally change how you use yourself. When you sleep, you’re unconscious, so it’s very hard to control anything. You’re essentially going to just fall into whatever your habit is. What’s going to make the biggest difference is what you do while awake. By changing your habits while awake, that will change the habit you fall into while sleeping.
That said, the general parameters of the model apply to sleeping. So I would not recommend sleeping on your back in such a way that your ear is lower than your sternum. But realistically, you’re going to roll around a bit while you sleep, so setting yourself up in a perfect position isn’t typically going to last.
Most people are bending💀💀
This is like the idea of non-doing action of taoism
My problem is that left side of my face is recessed compared to the right side. I also had uneven shoulders untill recently wherein the right shoulder was higher compared to the left which caused severe muscular pain in the right side.
I have seen huge improvements applying what you teach and i am forever grateful for that.
My big goal in life is to be extremely good looking, Facial symmetry is very important for that. What do you think can help achieve full facial symmetry?
Sleeping with a futon or a firm matress correct my posture and stretch my fascia
How I cringe when you show the wooden man in shortened posture!!