Somatic Hip Joints Release | Try this trick at home

So instead of putting the burden on the hip joint to release, we will employ the whole body to support the hip joint so

that the hip joint can not only release but integrate to fall into line to pick up its role and contribute in best

possible shape and functioning.

They say it takes a a village to raise a child and I think that's quite a profound saying not only in terms of child rearing,

socialization, character development but also we can apply to movement learning.

So uh for example today I want to show you a simple movement maybe even a sequence to release the hip joint to

whom it may concern if you think your hip joint is tight. So instead of putting the burden on the hip joint to

release to let go we will employ the whole village. We will call everyone

whole village. We will call everyone together all the organs, all the muscles, bones, the whole thing, the whole body will work and move to support

the hip joint so that the hip joint can not only release, let go, which wouldn't make much sense, but to integrate, to

fall into line, to pick up its role. I

guess that's what it's about. the saying

it takes a a village so the child or the hip joint can become part of the whole and contribute in meaningful ways.

It's always the same story but let's use the whole body to welcome the hip joint back [laughter] into its best shape best

possible shape and functioning. And to

do so we will start in lying on the back. We will start the lesson lying on

back. We will start the lesson lying on the back. So please if you will come to

the back. So please if you will come to rest on your back and we will go through the movement one movement together.

So we start by resting on the back.

That's half of the lesson already.

and bend both of your knees. Bring your

feet to standing in a what is what is it? How far have the feet to be away from the pelvis? How

wide do the feet have to be?

So you're resting on your back. Your feet are standing.

So that's important to start here and then let the legs tilt to the left. We'll

start with the left hip joint. So let

your legs tilt. Both legs tilt to the left. Slowly slowly controlled fashion

left. Slowly slowly controlled fashion like a Space X rocket coming down from the sky down down until your left leg

touches the outside touches the floor.

So you're kind of arrange yourself into this position. So your head has to move, head

position. So your head has to move, head the head has to roll and move and your shoulders shoulders have to move and you're kind of

in a way rolled on the left side. But we

don't start on the left side. We start

on the back and let the legs tilt over to the left and take a see if you can take a rest here.

Maybe you need to support your back a little bit. You can place a

little bit. You can place a pillow here in your back.

[snorts] You lean with your left sideish against the floor on your left side.

Take your sweet time to feel the weight.

So now we need to feel we need to feel the child. The left leg, the left leg has a weight. The left knee

is resting. The outside edge of the left

is resting. The outside edge of the left thigh is resting. Your left hip joint. Can you

is resting. Your left hip joint. Can you

feel maybe your greater trophanta or the leftest left part of your pelvis is it or more towards your butt?

Your the outside edge of your left foot is resting.

Your left arm is resting. Your head

everything is resting against the floor is supported by the floor.

And you can breathe into into this position.

Being confident that everyone everything will work together will come together to the next movement.

We will move as one.

We're going to be taken care of by the movement as long as we manage to relax into it.

to make adjustments as they come or allow them to happen. Little small

adjustments to feel more and more comfortable on your left side.

And then when time comes, put your right foot standing onto your left leg so that your right foot is standing on

the left lower leg or your left ankle somewhere.

If your right foot is standing on the inside edge of your left foot, there's a little ridge, you can pivot over

so the sole of your right foot is wider than the edge of your the inner inside edge of your left foot.

Little bit unstable. So your right leg, your right knee can tilt or pivot around this ridge.

that is formed by the left foot on the inside edge of your left foot.

Relax further into this position. Find

different positions for your right foot.

See where you can place your right foot and to which direction your right knee can tilt to the right and to the left.

Slowly easily just in a very gentle mode of easiness.

Can let your right knee hang to the right side.

Play with your right leg. You can feel your right leg moving inside and outside

to the left.

The right knee coming closer to the left knee or moving further away from your left knee.

Observe how you change the position of your foot.

So this you can remember also as homework you can do in the night half awake half asleep you can do this for half an hour an hour it's a very nice

way to move and to be half asleep we will continue this sequence if you have a pillow behind behind you.

Remove the pillow and we will start to move the whole body. But keep your left leg resting. The left leg is resting now

leg resting. The left leg is resting now so nicely on the floor. Keep the left leg resting on the floor. But bring your

right leg up to standing with the right foot on the floor. And then also bring your shoulders back and your hip back on the floor. So your pelvis starts to roll

the floor. So your pelvis starts to roll and the whole body everything is start to orient itself towards the ceiling again like everybody is leaving.

[laughter] Everybody's leaving the party.

Everybody's going back to the starting position. And what is the left leg

position. And what is the left leg doing? Is the left leg

doing? Is the left leg keep it keep it resting as long as possible on the on the left side. And

then bring bring yourself everything your head and your shoulders again back more to the left side.

And we will continue this moving back and forth a couple of times.

So you start to orient yourself towards the ceiling and leave the left leg

resting as long as possible on the floor or come back to invite the left leg. to

your right leg. You roll more into your left side again and then you orient yourself more and more towards the ceiling again.

So this opening of the left hip joint of course with a gentle a gentle invitation and see what do you have to move. So not

so much a structured lesson but an exploration to find ideas. This is a setup for ideas.

The upper body moves, the head moves, the shoulders move, the arms move, the right leg moves, and the left one, what is the left one doing?

How do you have to roll your pelvis? To

roll your pelvis in order for the left leg to rest as long as possible on the floor on the left side.

until your image of your leg starts to change. until the left leg suddenly

change. until the left leg suddenly becomes a shape in your mind in the internal representation of the physical

body in the in your there's a model for sure inside of ourselves of the physical body and the left leg as it does not move but

everything else moves the left leg starts to become highlighted [laughter] Maybe even as a with a dark highlight marker as a dark shape because that's

the shape that doesn't move. But

everything else moves. Everything else

rolls to the left side and then everything rolls to the onto the back except for the left leg.

What is happening there? So the nervous system something becomes interested in the left leg.

And then at last, what do we do? Extend

both legs. Take a rest on your back.

Feel how well you can breathe now. How you

how how do you how do you feel? What

what did change through that short movement sequence?

And I would like to leave it up to you to do the other side as well.

Well, I need to do the other side because I feel like so much happened in my left hip joint. Now I need to do it to the other side. You can do it

together if you like to bring your feet to stand as a starting position until you really on your back with your feet standing

with the knees bent. And then you start to let your both knees sink to the right side bit by bit

until the right leg, the outside of your right leg is safely on the floor. Oh,

what an improvement.

I'm always taken when I feel this kind of improvement t taken by surprise. [laughter]

It's so nice, isn't it?

So, for a bit we will rest with the right leg resting on the on its outside.

Allow yourself to do the necessary adjustment that present themsel And then there will be a time, a point in time,

maybe not now or maybe it was already, but there will be a a time for you to stand your left foot

onto your right one.

And start to feel how the left leg is the left foot is standing on the right foot on the inner edge. How the left the sole of the

inner edge. How the left the sole of the left foot is on the inner edge of the right foot.

How the left leg is balanced.

When does it tip a little bit to the right? When does it tip a little bit to

right? When does it tip a little bit to the left? You can find

the left? You can find how do we feel? How do we sense this?

When does your leg fall to the right?

Where is it balanced?

When would it fall to the left? And you

of course you protect your leg. Take

care of the leg.

Or can it fall? How is it your left leg?

this unstable position opening to the left or closing to the right.

Now that the left hip joint is more free, more open to movement than it was before. Maybe you can feel this

was before. Maybe you can feel this instability with the left leg now much stronger, more intensely than you did with the

right leg before.

If you allow yourself to feel or to think in these terms, stable, unstable, easy to lose balance,

but just as easy to keep control, to observe, to protect, to safeguard.

So you can like me you can start to roll your head together with your knee.

So this is where these somatic lessons emerge. The head rolls together with the

emerge. The head rolls together with the knee in the same direction or in the other direction. So these patterns

other direction. So these patterns emerge and we just need to be able to see them and name them and then we can

build them into and see if they're useful or not and how we can use them and for what they are useful.

The head rolls together with the knee or in the opposite direction. That's a

differentiation.

the secrets, the deepest secrets. How do

we build these wonderful lessons? How do

we come up with these lessons? Just like

this, we observe. We see what we see. We are not afraid to look truths

we see. We are not afraid to look truths into the eye, what reality, the body, the physical reality.

Just look at it. Observe and see what emerges and what we can use.

Maybe it's a mining process.

And then at some point start to orient yourself towards the ceiling again and see how far can you

leave your for how long can you leave your right leg on the floor. While you

move the rest of yourself to orient yourself towards the ceiling or towards the right side.

And then we take a last rest on the back.

When when come time to do that to extend the legs. Ah

the legs. Ah feel feel feel feel feel feel feel feel feel feel feel feel feel feel feel feel feel feel feel feel feel feel feel feel feel feel feel feel feel feel feel feel feel feel feel feel feel feel feel feel feel feel now how your pelvis is it is now much different than it was before isn't it? Or at least the perception of

isn't it? Or at least the perception of it.

[laughter] The way you rest on the floor might have changed quite profoundly.

Yeah. All right. So

the child is how is the child? How is how is the hip joint? How is the rest of the body? The

joint? How is the rest of the body? The

whole village how is it? Ah let's have a look in standing. Let's end this lesson and come up to stand. See how we feel in

standing.

Can we feel the difference in the hip joints?

Apart from having enjoyed the time on the floor, I hope you have. Did this have a effect at

all? We will see. We will see during the

all? We will see. We will see during the day, during the next hours.

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