Moishe Feldenkrais (a physicist) is usually credited with such method(ology).

My Feldenkrais teacher was hit by a car, a few years ago - before I met her. She'd been an athletics-obsessed person prior. I can't recall the litany of things screwed up in the crash (she was walking, not inside a car). When she could barely move anything.. and the MDs were acclimating her towards --> a veritable paraplegic life next:

She had herself carried into some F. class nearby. Went through just such exercises, a part of learning how it is that you control your muscles. Visualizing (gedanken experiment?) as if you were moving them, practicing that - enabled her to rapidly progress to being able to move them. Gradually she became able to move body parts which were simply.. not responding at all, before.

She is today lithe as a mime or an acrobat. Still has some pains associated, and probably some angles she cannot attain - but to anyone not-her: she appears as fit as any pro athlete.

Since I have an incipient spinal 'scoliosis' (medicine is constitutionally unable to call a 'bend' a bend) I have been attending for some months now. She is also gifted at 'talking' one's way into noticing -- what most of us go through a lifetime never ever paying attention to. And this method is not about "monkey see, monkey do" - you need to find out just how (and now many!) minor movements work, and notice that the entire spine/body moves in synchrony with what you think: is just an arm, or finger 'moving'.

Many folks have almost-fused sternums, pelvis-spine connections and.. most ribs - through disuse and not ever noticing. But all these need to move freely, even to walk properly! This is stuff which could be taught to children (they become savvy Fast in F. classes - not yet having learned bad adult habits) And is: in Switzerland for one! (where F. lived).

I can't say I have seen yet A Miracle, but I am seeing progress, where your usual allopath had no solutions to offer except: accept the inevitable. Mine is measurable change, if not yet complete repair - so I will persist.

It's always amusing (while remaining appalling) - the keen sense of Discovery! of the (especially US-trained) allopaths - when they happen onto various effective treatments never dreamed of in their philosophy, Horatio. Apparently neither genuine curiosity nor a particularly high intelligence is required in most med. schools here (but a good memory for Latin! and pharm-chem). And Boy do it show. Vet. schools are much *harder* to get into, a cohort discovered years ago.

(Your wife, no doubt - shall prove an average raiser! :-)


Cheers,

Ashton

Red Herring.

There is a hideous price to be paid - by Murican standards:












..not for the faint of heart, this.









..I accept no responsibility for burst aneurysms.








[you were warned]
You must Pay Attention to achieve any benefit. (No, you can't buy a surrogate to do it for you.)

See? never become popular, obviously.

You are quite right - the 'dialogue' indeed sounds the ipitome of b o r i n g. Especially written as prose.

Ex.
You might be lying on your back, relaxed. Asked to,

Notice your breathing.
Notice how your legs feel. Is there any difference in the way the heel points the foot on left or right leg. Curl the toes of the right foot downwards. Return - now just the big toe ...

Notice your breathing.

Very slowly.. rotate your head to the right. S l o w l y, so that a butterfly perched on your nose would not be scared away (!). Does this seem to occur in small-jerks? Can you find a way to move smoothly? Slower..

Notice your breathing..

Relax the jaw. As you rotate your head right, move your eyes left. Smoothly. Slower. Now let the eyes follow the head ... ...

See? Sounds, well.. And indeed there is much in the voice delivery. And timing. And there are more details explored in various motions; this is a tiny preview.

But when you eventually stand-up (and most people do not know how to do that 'with least energy, stress' etc.!) and slowly walk around: you Notice things. Cumulatively.

I think the largest buffer here is the Murican fantasy of pill pushing for every 'discomfort' - expecting instant remedy requiring 0 participation / just $. Our culture is conditioned to regard all but allopathy as quackish. We are accustomed to this so deeply - all else is easily dismissed as hogwash.


Oink,

Ashton
who treats All 'therapies' skeptically, but will suspend disbelief long enough for an honest try. YMMV with the quality of the practitioner and your effort - as ever.