04/02/2025
Welcome to my page! 🎉
I created this space to share the insights that took me six years of trial and error—trying different methods to fix my lower back—before finally discovering something I wish someone had told me on day one.
My Journey Went as Follows:
I quickly realized that my back was hurting because the muscles in that area couldn’t relax. They were tight and tired, causing soreness and pain.
As I went to different specialists and spent time and money, I slowly learned that there are many ways to try and fix lower back pain, but none of them gave me long-term relief:
🔹 Training the Opposing Muscles – The idea is to strengthen your core to balance the weight of your torso and give your back a break. This can help to some degree, but only as long as you keep up with the exercises. In reality, you’re just adding another chronically tight muscle group (abs) to the already tight muscles in your back—a balance held together by willpower alone.
🔹 Stretching the Tight Area – The logic is that if a muscle is tight and unable to relax, you should lengthen it and pull it apart. Stretching does create space and relieves some pressure on your nerves, which feels good. However, it doesn’t address the root cause of tight muscles. After the stretch, they tighten back up, and in the end, you might have added even more stress to an area that doesn’t need it.
🔹 Massage – Massage helps because manual pressure on a tight muscle makes it relax. But again, it’s only a matter of time before the muscle stiffens back up, and you’re back to where you started. Besides, getting deep-tissue massages every week just isn’t practical—logistically or financially.
So, What Actually Works?
If you want to get rid of chronic body pain—and this applies to any area of the body, not just lower back pain, as long as it’s due to chronically tight muscles and not an injury—you need to regain the ability to relax those tight muscles - at will.
Think about it: if you could do the same with your tight back muscles as you can with your biceps—flex and then fully relax them—your back muscles could take a break, recover, and the pain would disappear.
Nobody tells you this: You need to regain your ability to relax chronically tight muscles—not gain another tight muscle for balance, not forcibly stretch the hurting area, and not massage the muscles into temporary relief.
Now, I know what you’re thinking:
“I can do that. If I could, I obviously would…”
Well, you just can’t do it yet. Your ability to relax different muscles in the body can be trained—just like anything else.
How Do You Train It?
You need to focus all your attention on the feelings coming from your that area and inquisitively explore these sensations while doing slow and controlled movements.
A sort of dynamic meditation that, through repetition, trains your ability to feel your body.
As your body awareness improves:
✅ You start feeling the tight muscles—chances are, you might not even that your muscles are tight in the first place.
✅ You gain the ability to tighten the muscle just a little bit more.
✅ You regain the ability to relax the muscle just a little bit more.
And if you stay curious and persistent, sooner or later, you’ll be able to fully relax your muscles—and get rid of your pain.
This is actually a common method for treating chronic pain called Somatics, which has been further developed in my home country. We call it AEQ.
The two main pillars of this method are:
1️⃣ Clear explanations (as I hope this one was!)
2️⃣ AEQ exercises—slow and controlled movements where an AEQ teacher directs your movements and helps you focus your attention on how these movements feel in your body—a kind of guided dynamic meditation.
In my small home country of Slovenia, this method has become widely known and respected because so many people have found relief through it. However, I was shocked—and also excited—to realize that it isn’t as well-known in other countries.
So Here’s What I Want to Do…
AEQ sessions can easily be done through video conferencing, and they are common in Slovenia. But—they have never been done in English before.
That’s why I’ve decided, as a Basic Level AEQ Teacher (and someone whose English is “somewhat good” 😅), to hold FREE public Zoom sessions in English for anyone struggling with chronic pain.
I know this would have helped me so much all those years ago when I was battling chronic back pain, and I want to help as many people as I can.
🌟 Join My Free AEQ Zoom Webinars 🌟
I’d love to invite you or anyone you think could benefit from the AEQ Method to join my completely free Zoom webinars. In these sessions, we’ll explore these concepts further, and I’ll guide you through your first AEQ exercise.
📅 I hold these sessions every week—Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday.
🎥 Live sessions, so you can ask questions in real time.
👥 Small groups of five for a more personal and welcoming atmosphere.
🔗 Checkout the scheduled times and dates on the link below, it is completely FREE with no strings attached:
https://kajetan-aeq.com/
I look forward to seeing you there! 😊💪
