Samantha Faulhaber

So far we’ve done this one that’s available for free to everyone that produces magic and is simple enough to do when you’re waiting in line for a sandwich somewhere once you learn it.

We’ve also done this one, for paid subscribers ($5/month or $32/year), where you both meet God and your innermost muscle fibers. Best for people who are dealing with a muscle spasm, “threw their back out”, are locked down, etc.

Both work for parts of your body that need confidence and you have a low connection with.

I’ll tell you that there is a gap between posting the second and this one because I want to record a new video, which is a little harder living with a one-year-old.

So, I’m going to make a fourth part, and share the older video here on how to disconnect your hips from your back.

This is for you if:

• If you watch a video of yourself walking and you rotate your spine in order to throw your hips and legs forward one at a time
• If your clue is that you have constant or persistent low back pain
• Or if you always feel kinda bent over and have to wrench your back in order to stand upright

This exercise is sourced from a few places put together in order to help separate the signaling of your back and legs. We’re gonna tell your body that it doesn’t have to move both of them at the same time. You have multiple parts for a reason and it helps if they all move independently through a larger range of motion on their own.

You will hear this called Intra-Abdominal Pressure, or IAP, more commonly.

Here is a great post by Austin Einhorn, who I have a lot of respect for, about why we want to create a cylinder and not pull our belly buttons into our spines when we’re trying to create a supportive structure in our bodies.

Apiros | Austin Einhorn on Instagram: “When wondering what’s optimal for our body, looking to nature answers a lot of questions. Nature repeats effective designs with slight differences. Spines and other cylinders have clearly defined roles on earth.

What this exercise also does is to help begin training your diaphragm, the massive muscle that divides your upper from your lower internal cavity and acts as your pressurization machine when you get it going.

In private sessions I would probably do a mix of breath training, the video above, and other spine and hip awareness training and movement to increase the connection and abilities of the client in front of me.

Here’s the written instructions:

1. Lie down on your back with your knees bent for now and place something underneath your lower back that you can feel like a small rolled towel or washcloth.
2. Press your fingers slightly into your abdomen on either side and breathe in such a way that you push the fingers out AND feel your breath pushing out against the rolled towel. This means you are getting expansion in the front and back sides of your body.
3. Pick your legs up off the floor with your legs bent and see if you can hold them around or just above 90 degrees. Bring your knees to a position that works for you for now.
4. Using your contact with the washcloth and your fingers in your belly, lower one leg at a time just until you feel a change in position in your back/torso. Bring it back to bent.
5. Repeat, using the criteria each time of when your back starts to move with your leg as your stopping place. With repetition, you will begin to move your leg lower and lower without your back being involved as long as you adequately build strength here and separate the nerve signaling that tells them to always move together.

There are more details and advancements in the video I shared above, but this will really get you started.

[Feature Photo by Declan Sun on Unsplash.]