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ACTIVE LEARNING
During an individual session, you will learn the AEQ approach through personal contact with the author of the AEQ method, breathing, and relationships, Aleš Ernst. Through conversation and physical therapy, where you will have AEQ protocols performed on you, you will gradually eliminate sensory-motor amnesia. That way, you can increase your ability to consciously sense the actual state within your body and raise your emotional maturity and efficiency.
Learn the AEQ method with Aleš Ernst, the author of the method, AEQ breathing and AEQ relationships

If you decide to start eliminating chronic pain using this path, the most efficient combination would be participating in an online program, which I perform live through Zoom meetings, and an individual session in the Center of the AEQ method in Brežice.
The condition for scheduling individual sessions is regularly participating in at least one of my 30-day online programs. This will prove to yourselves the seriousness and determination to walk the path towards change. The path is not an easy one, but it’s the only way to influence the burdening chronic conditions you suffer from.
This means that learning first takes place in my online programs. If there are areas in the programs that you cannot arrange yourself and would like individual treatment, you can make an appointment with me or one of my students. I determine this based on your experience and things you felt during the program(s).


Why is participating in the 30-day program necessary?
Such an approach allows for a gradual introduction and, at the same time, a better understanding of the principles necessary to reduce sensory-motor amnesia. Over 30 days, you will practice punctuality and orderliness, which are both necessary for successfully performing exercises. This is especially important for the optimal use of your everyday time and proper orientation to your inner essence.
Explanations and answers to your questions, which will come up when executing the program, will give you insight into the reasons behind your chronic pain. If this happens in the intimacy of your home, the healing becomes much more efficient.
What are the benefits of individual learning?
Individual learning allows the client to recognize and choose whether a certain reflex is currently required or appropriate or if it is an old pattern that is inappropriate and even harmful in the present. Individual sessions give the client a much stronger feeling of change. With this, they realize how powerful the mind’s influence is on their well-being and their ability to change seemingly unchangeable habits. This way, the client can feel and understand the causes and consequences of being in the current state.
They learn how to change their circumstances, thereby allowing themselves the possibility of a different result and a different feeling, even though they may have had a certain problem for many years. If the cause of the problem in their current circumstances is incorrect muscle tension, individual learning can quickly help them change it to the correct one. This is possible because they can perceive things more clearly and understandably that something they thought was normal is actually unnecessary and the reason for chronic conditions.
What can we learn during individiual sessions?
The client learns one or two AEQ exercises that recreate the newly acquired knowledge and control during individual learning. They then instil this knowledge with daily conscious repetition and development of movement complexity, ensuring a permanent change in the sensory-motor connection between body and mind. This way, they fortify new behaviour and movement patterns. This helps a person to find it increasingly harder to return to old habits and can also immediately feel if they may have activated an old pattern, giving them a conscious choice: to remain in it or to leave.
When is working on the fascia used?
The muscle itself doesn’t have memory or determination but is instead the perfect servant who attentively executes the brain's orders. The muscle doesn’t even differentiate if the orders are good or ‘’bad’’. The past greatly influences the condition of the muscles in the form of changed behaviour and altered movement patterns, which subconsciously and with fascia keep certain muscle groups in constant contraction.
What does individual learning include?
Individual learning can also include the teachers' work on fascia according to the AEQ method. They use special grips and an understanding of the flow of impulses, energy, and sensations to discover areas of the fascia that are compressed and dry. This procedure can also be very painful and takes place on bare skin.
This approach is used in more severe cases of sensory-motor amnesia, which are the result of severe behaviour changes due to emotional trauma. In these cases, fascia helps maintain certain types of behaviour, despite serious opposition to what a person truly wishes to express.Why do we learn AEQ exercises?
By performing AEQ exercises, we noticeably improve the connectedness of our mind, body, and ground, allowing us to raise our emotional maturity. This allows us to live a different present despite having the same past, helping us curate our future. All clients who come to us for an individual session are unhappy with their current state and are afraid of the future if something doesn’t change. Individual learning enables the Active learning of the AEQ method enables rational and body-coordinated behavior change and thus changes in actions that determine and enable change. All this increases the probability of achieving the desired.
With every visit, you will learn the appropriate AEQ exercise that you can perform at home. Every day 30-40 minute exercise and exploring movement will strengthen new discoveries made during active learning. This is the recipe for eliminating chronic pain and making sure that it doesn't return.What will an AEQ teacher teach you during an individual session?
Individual learning allows your consciousness to realize that the body is its ally and not an enemy if it approaches appropriately. It’ll also learn that they’ll both achieve more when working together, rather than apart.
The purpose of active learning is to stop all our special patterns of chronic muscle tension. First, you’ll become aware of them, and then the teacher will educate you on how to requalify your brain to change its orders. Thus, the tension in the painful muscles will be released, giving you control over their length and function once more.
You will become more competent in self-control, independent posture correction, movement, and responding to stress. During each session, we will focus on your specific condition, behaviour, history of muscle pain, and movement patterns.

Why is a conversation with an AEQ teacher necessary?
Learning behind with a conversation, during which the teacher will try to locate the strongest subconscious patterns. They are simultaneously discussing the AEQ protocol, which depends on the client’s current condition, the realizations they achieved during the previous session, and the blockades they detect when performing exercises at home.
How does an AEQ teacher guide you?
The teacher helps his clients by guiding them with his hands and controlling the correct movement execution. The movements are slow, and with the help of the teacher’s touch, the client increasingly feels how poorly he is aware of the body’s movements and mobility. Namely, the difference between the movement that a person performs and the movement that he wants to perform is the result of the influence of sensory-motor amnesia on the so-called sensory-motor feedback loop. The sense of incomplete control that the client feels, as well as the illogical twitching of the slowly relaxing tense muscles, alerts the conscious part of the brain to direct more attention to the body and movement and to acquire more sensory information. This way, they increase control, further improving their movement. The teacher’s touch facilitates and directs attention to the right places. His voice helps with the correct movement execution and thus redirects sensory-motor control to the right path.
We connect movement into a movement pattern, which replicates one or more somatic reflexes. The client learns how to feel, recreate, and then abandon the reflexes they no longer need. Their control over their movement increases, and they can now abandon subconscious movement patterns. This is especially important since movement defines behaviour. It is also because in childhood, it is necessary to adapt behaviour to the demands and expectations of the environment and to strongly block certain movements in order to achieve a different behaviour.
Important: The AEQ teacher is your guide and companion on this path, not your luggage carrier.
How many visits are recommended?
I’d recommend two to four visits after participating in at least one online program.
In very severe cases of muscle contraction that are connected to deep emotional trauma, 5 to 10 visits in a time frame of six to eight months are required. In these situations, it is first necessary to determine when participation in 30-day programs is appropriate and to agree on possible coordinated cooperation with a psychotherapist.
Warning: For conditions like scoliosis, choosing the appropriate learning method depends on the cause of the spine’s curvature and whether parents should be involved in the process. That is why an introductory live or online consultation is necessary. The same is true for fibromyalgia.
How to dress for an individual session?
Loose and comfortable clothing is recommended because active therapy includes bodily movement (jeans, business attire, and skirts are obviously not recommended).
The first session with a level 5 AEQ teacher includes:
- A detailed estimate of the state of your posture and stride,
- Explaining and pointing out the wrong movement patterns, conversations about the causes and consequences of movements and posture, and determining the possible suppressed emotional patterns that negatively influence your posture, movement, and well-being.
- Active work to eliminate irregular and establish correct movement patterns, the length of the work at the table depends on the time that needs to be invested in determining the main causes of the problems that we want to eliminate through active learning.
- Learning AEQ exercises which are meant to strengthen what you achieved during active sessions.
- Each session is tailored in a way that builds on the previous one.
Every next session with a level 5 AEQ teacher includes:
- An examination of changes in understanding and feeling achieved during the time between therapies.
- Actively learning the chosen AEQ protocol.
- Working on the fascia according to the AEQ method and analyzing the logic behind emotional responses to stronger sensations, which are part of the changes in the condition of the fascia.
- Explaining the appropriate use of the reality principle, the pleasure principle, and the flow of emotional expression.
- Examining previous AEQ exercises and learning new ones if required.
The current waiting time for individual sessions is two to three months from the start of the first program you sign up for. The dates adjust to the realizations and changes that occur during a program regarding understanding oneself and our environment. The main progress is achieved through regular participation in the programs. In individual meetings, we work on certain areas of your life in more detail. With active work on the table and AEQ fascia, we reduce sensory-motor amnesia (SMA) in the parts of the body where it is strongest. This way, we increase the progress of body awareness and the influence of the body on your consciousness and actions.
For a scheduled appointment send an email to info@aeq.si
Learning the AEQ method online
Online learning is possible through FaceTime, Facebook video chat, or Zoom.
Online learning is appropriate in cases where active therapy or personal contact is not required to continue progressing in understanding the AEQ method or the relationship between the mind and body. That way, you can receive answers to questions and quell any doubts you might have throughout the regular implementation of AEQ exercises and changing character and movement patterns.
Often, the ambiguities aren’t that they would demand the length of a whole therapy (90 minutes), which is why long-distance learning is possible even in shorter intervals, allowing a more efficient use of your time.
Sessions via video connection are also suitable for clarifying and dispelling ambiguity regarding the correct execution of AEQ exercises. In this case, when scheduling an appointment, inform us that you would like to learn how to perform AEQ exercises correctly, and you will receive instructions regarding camera placement and setting up your surroundings for optimal exercise execution.
Conversation through a live feed is also appropriate as an examination/consultation before your first individual session while we discuss the most suitable approach to learning the AEQ method, as well as in more complex cases (scoliosis, severe cases of autoimmune diseases…).
Testimonials
I am now aware that the rigidity of my neck and vertigo are associated with the energy of unexpressed anger, which would otherwise leave a positive impact on my surroundings
I had a poor connection with my body, but I wanted to achieve this by force.
In the beginning, when I was still getting to know the exercise, I told myself what needed to be done as I read in the description of the exercises you sent us. When I understood the exercise, I mainly performed it automatically, like any other exercise. It was important for...READ MORE
It’s important to become aware of the past
The more I perform AEQ exercises, the better I understand the holistic connection. Change is only possible when we take responsibility. Nowadays, I don't suppress my feelings and emotions to myself or hide...
Aleš, thank you for an even deeper insight into the AEQ method.
I decided to sign up to the program due to the chronic pain in my left hip and back, which appeared in the middle of December and was always present, sometimes more, sometimes less. After an active AEQ therapy, the feeling of pain became a bit stronger. With the start...READ MORE
With the AEQ method, the process began – awareness, perception of physical pain, and big steps of change were intertwined
I became acquainted with the AEQ method in September 2014. At that time, my life looked perfect on the outside, but inside I felt anxious. Over the years, my posture increasingly reflected scoliosis, and a friend...
I did the exercises too quickly, without feeling.
I recommend the AEQ program to anyone who wants to eliminate or alleviate their chronic condition with the help of the AEQ method.
Testimonial on AEQ workshops/group coaching
Since my first session with Aleš in 2016, all the experiences I’ve had with him have been full of inspiration and transformation. At the time, I was in need of help because I had severe back pain and ischiatic pain – I wasn’t able to walk for weeks. The pain...READ MORE
Thank you for your devoted leadership and for your in-depth explanations
I heard about the AEQ method from my daughter after mentioning to her that I feel an escalation of tingling feelings from my left shoulder toward my neck. I also started having issues with carpal tunnel a few years ago, and I’ve been also feeling irritating itchiness around my left...READ MORE
The pain is washed away through tears that look so real but they are just emotions that we didn’t allow ourselves to feel in the past.
I have been dealing with hip pain for a while now. The results that I got back from traditional doctors have not shown anything special. They offered me painkillers but I rejected them because I knew this was not the right solution. The pain escalated at a workshop where two...READ MORE
Feedback on the effect of participating in a 30-day program to eliminate burnout and chronic fatigue
In the first two weeks of participating in the AEQ program, I felt a strong resistance in my subconscious while performing exercises. It appeared in a constant hunger for air (yawning) and extreme fatigue, making it difficult to remain focused and pay attention to your explanations. When performing respiratory exercises,...READ MORE
I no longer have anxiety or panic attacks, and I can more easily accept all the situations that happen in my life.
At first, I noticed how free my rib cage became and the increased ability to express happiness, love, and anger. Now I am learning how to use my anger more effectively – not suppressing it but also not going completely mad because, during the program, I also allowed myself this...READ MORE
The AEQ method, learning self-control
The AEQ method offers a process that changes how you look at your body and think, see, and feel. Getting to know, feel, and consciously control your body is something extraordinary. When you are ready to see...
Otherwise, I really admire you, how you figured it all out, connected it,… and I am grateful that life brought me to you.
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I am creating more and more order in my relationships, I am more aware, and I am able to realize faster what do I want and what I not want and how to achieve that.
The exercises have become a routine, they help me relax and find my zen. I wasn’t consistent enough with them at first, I didn’t give them enough attention and didn’t dive deep enough into understanding them. The program for the bottom part of the body helped me to put myself...READ MORE
I realized that leading with a teacher is much more effective than if I doing it alone. That I have many parts of my body that I can’t feel or connect.
I decided on the 30-day exercise management program because I thought that this way, I would be able to exercise more regularly and with greater presence. When I was doing the exercises myself, I spent quite a bit of time reading. Then I tried to do it. When reading, I...READ MORE