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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.
The Posture Dojo Podcast with Sam Miller
Sam Miller has built a healing community for sharing his approach with other young men and women whose spines have been compromised. Read more about our conversation last year…
Support for Heart Opening
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.
Notes on Coaching Movement, Part 1
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.
Somatic Gratitude
It’s easy to distinguish the feeling of gratitude from that of disappointment. But how do the sensations of gratitude differ from those of happiness, love, or relief? Could I find a way to more fully embody my thanksgiving?
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.
Tongue Support for Diaphragmatic Breathing
Within your oral cavity, you now have both descent (your mandible resting down) and ascent the subtle lift of your tongue. Notice what that does for the sensations at the juncture of your head and neck.
How to Sit in Your Car
Car designers seem to devise seats to support the lowest common denominator of posture, believing that people need soft seats that cradle the derriere, and backrests that ignore the capacity of your spine to support itself.
Interview with @yourpregnantcore
A free-wheeling, leisurely conversation with my new Pilates friends.
Pandiculate for Fascia Health
Unlike cats and dogs, humans tend to stifle this natural urge. In polite company such movement expression is considered rude.
Embodiment During a Heatwave?
Going outside felt like walking into an oven or like being punctured by thousands of hot little needles, one in every skin pore.
Posture and Politics #1
I’ve decided to try a different tactic: I’m going to choose to watch him (and his henchmen) while at the same time drawing on every resource in my body awareness arsenal to sustain my space and energy.
Morning Posture; Morning Attitude
I also know that moving stiffly--ambulating with the bare minimum of joints engaged--becomes a habit that can’t entirely be blamed on my bodily tissues. Habits take place in the brain. The more often I move stiffly, the more familiar and less optional that way of moving becomes. I can choose how I move.