A Poem to Stop Snoring
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A poetic study of mouth shape relative to nasal breathing.
Read MoreForward Head Posture
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The sisters had found my coaching service by Googling “good posture.”
Read MorePerceptual Tensegrity and Vectors
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Finding his feet gives him a crucial moment of being 100% present in space and time. That’s the magic of perceptual tensegrity: feet feeling the ground; hands sensing the ball, vectors dancing together for a perfect shot.
Read MoreTwenty-first Century Vitalism Podcast
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A podcast exploring what it takes to be fully alive during these strange and potent times.Interoceptive Midline
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In order to make the smallest action, our bodies must have a base of support and a sense of knowing where we are. We must be oriented to both the ground and to our spatial surroundings.
Read MorePerfection and PD
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I’ve never been shy about having PD—I figure everybody has to have something. But I hated that it distracted from what I thought was a valuable presentation.
Read MoreBreath in Hindsight
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I’ve always included breathing in my teaching and writing about posture.. But a revived interest in breathing has shown me how little I’ve actually understood about it, and how inefficiently I’ve been doing it—for decades.
Read MoreMedical Mis-Adventures
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Living with PD has made me understand that no matter how well you’ve managed health with good nutrition, Chinese medicine, Ayurveda, homeopathy, or other wellness alternatives, you may one day require the assistance of mainstream medicine.
Read MoreSupport for Heart Opening
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Your own experience tells you that opening can be sustained only in the presence of support. Balancing your alignment with gravity with awareness of normal joint function affords strength without effort, openness without defense, support without closure. Within your mountain is a beating, breathing heart.
Read MoreAging gracefully, or else...
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Once you understand what the dysfunctional habit is trying to accomplish, then you can begin replacing it with a better habit that will serve the same purpose,
Read MorePatellafemoral Syndrome
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Best of all, I’ve had fleeting moments of sensing something new and important about my stance in the world.
Read MoreNotes on Coaching Movement, Part Two
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For this journey you need a theory, a map that tells you where you are with the client and keeps you from getting lost. And you need a portmanteau of techniques—exercises, meditations, experiments, explorations—ways to help your client become at ease with unfamiliar terrain of herself. In this post I’m sharing my map.
Read MoreNotes on Coaching Movement, Part 1
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A deeper level of somatic education can lead to lasting change in the way someone inhabits their body. This approach invites the client to become aware of their habitual movements and to explore sensations that stimulate new movement behaviors.
Read MorePosture and Your Pelvis
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The highly mobile hip joints combined with plasticity between sacrum and ilia, offer the body a dynamic relationship between the spine and the ground.
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