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Happy Tongue: Happy Body
Sensing the soft totality of my tongue helps me remember that the rest of my body, my being, can also soften and fill, can hum and flow. Can dance.
Tensegrity Tongue
What your tongue is doing can have surprising ramifications throughout your body, all the way down to your toes.
Biotensegrity: From Dinosaur's Tails to Tea Parties
Everywhere, at every scale, he found the same principle: tension and compression in balance.
Soft Matter, Ant Trails, Breakdancing and Tensegrity
The impression that the shapes were flowing through her fascia wasn’t an illusion: self-organization is another of soft matter’s mysterious properties.
Gravity, Verticality and Mary Poppins
Can structures be supported by means other than vertical accord with gravity?
Somatic Epiphanies and Four-Letter Words
How can you get your somatic discoveries to become new habits of moving and being?
Medical Mis-Adventures
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.
Aging gracefully, or else...
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,
Patellafemoral Syndrome
Best of all, I’ve had fleeting moments of sensing something new and important about my stance in the world.
Posture and Your Pelvis
The highly mobile hip joints combined with plasticity between sacrum and ilia, offer the body a dynamic relationship between the spine and the ground.
Mandible, Maxillae, Molars and Movement
Jaw tension can be an unrecognized source of upper neck stiffness and pain. This post suggests a way to release your jaw by meditating on your molars.
Standing Up with PD
An online presentation to my local Parkinson’s Disease support group. There’s information in it that’s useful for anyone, not just people living with PD.
Music and Motor Sequencing
I had stumbled upon the basis for music therapy. The AirPods give me the experience of being inside the music which is different from just listening to it —although that’s helpful too
Use Your Toes to Protect Your Knees
When there’s a problem in the knee, there are probably imbalances in the feet. My friend had no complaints about her feet, but when I watched her move I could see that, especially on the side of her knee surgery, she wasn’t using the full articulation of her foot.