The 30-day AEQ program for the bottom part of the body gave me the opportunity to start feeling my body better. After many years of living with a severed connection to the bottom part of my body and having minimal sensations when using my legs, I now feel that these sensations are slowly coming back. I can sense my legs better now from the knee up and what I can sense the most is how much my muscles are contracted. Through Aleš’s explanations I now understand that it is hard for me to move because of my excessive muscle contraction.

I took part in the 30-day AEQ program for the upper part of the body because I had issues in my upper back. At first, I thought that my problems were the result of my sedentary lifestyle but then I experienced an “aha moment”...

I’ve been experiencing the 30-day breathing program very intensely. I really liked the way you were teaching and leading the breathing exercises and modules. The instructions were clear and the repetition was helpful. Throughout the program I was doing the exercises once per day when on my own. The program helped awaken the memories from my early childhood that had a strong impact on the communication I have with myself and others. I gained a new understanding through a new frame in regards to how I respond to positive and negative situations. Immediately after the end of the program I had a swollen throat and tonsils without any outer trigger. I was coughing out green mucus and it lasted for 10 days.

I have been searching for solutions for many years with different teachers and therapists but I haven’t been able to achieve my desired results yet. I am glad that I finally found a teacher with an immense quantity of knowledge like you. This is the first time I’ve heard of the AEQ method and I can say that I am becoming friends with it because I am already seeing the effects of the exercises. What I love most is that the main focus is kept on the body – I’ve been ignoring this the whole time. I feel a release of various emotions during the exercises. I find that my body doesn’t always listen to me when I give it an order.

The efficiency is shown in lessening the usage of energy for the same amount of work and for making the work higher quality. During the program we are updating the body to the living conditions of the present moment by understanding our past. During the workshop I first increased, then lessened, and at the end eliminated a repetitive pain in my leg (ischiatic pain). I would recommend the 30-day program to anyone who wants to get to know the real reasons for why does the human body not function properly which then brings chronic inflammation and chronic pain long-term. It’s also good to be aware that we cannot achieve the desired changes quickly because that can only make it worse.

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 shoulder where I supposedly have a trapped nerve. I’ve known for a long time that I am overly contracted in my neck and shoulders and when you retire it supposedly only gets worse. It became clear later that AEQ is some sort of an emotional cleanse as well and can affect your emotional maturity, in other words, shows you who you really are authentically.

I feel that participating in your breathing program has helped me take one step closer toward myself. Even though I am used to not listening to my body I am now more aware of how deeply my face muscles, neck muscles, back muscles and shoulder muscles are contracted. I am aware of how much burden I have been carrying on my shoulders. Slowly but surely my awareness is changing. I love doing the exercises because they need to be done slowly with focusing on the body. It took me a long time to learn how to sense which muscles are shortening and which one are lengthening.

For the first few weeks of the program, I felt terribly cold and it felt awful to feel it – I needed hot showers afterwards to stabilize myself. Toward the end I gradually warmed up, I was even sweating through the standing exercises. It was a great experience because I never exercised standing up before – I probably didn’t trust my own feet enough to hold me and I was scared to stand firmly on them. Through the physical changes new insights came up about who I am, how much pressure I put on myself, how much guilt I carry inside me, and I could also see my environment more clearly – where and how do I allow to be abused and humiliated.

After doing your 30-day program my kyphosis disappeared. I got up in the morning, touched my neck because I felt something was different, and I could not believe that there was no bump on my neck, or at least it was so much smaller that it felt different. Have my muscles relaxed so much that they changed my bone structure or what exactly happened? Is this really possible, or am I dreaming? I also noticed that I now wake up every morning with a swollen body, especially my wrists, fingers, eyelids, under my eyes, and also my ankle and feet.

I am doing the exercises regularly and I know that this time is meant just for me (at first, 30 minutes felt long – my old patterns turned on – but when I go into the exercise slowly it feels like they go by really quickly – feels like a new experience), to explore my depths. Because of this I execute the exercises differently because I know that I have enough time for all the details instead of just trying to satisfy my mind by doing them carelessly and getting low quality results. After doing the exercises, including the breathing exercises, that I’ve learned in the programs I feel better and better more and more often.