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…
Read MoreSam 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…
Read MoreA poetic study of mouth shape relative to nasal breathing.
Read MoreYour 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 MoreA 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 MoreIt’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?
Read MoreAn 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.
Read MoreWithin 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.
Read MoreCar 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.
Read MoreA free-wheeling, leisurely conversation with my new Pilates friends.
Read MoreUnlike cats and dogs, humans tend to stifle this natural urge. In polite company such movement expression is considered rude.
Read MoreGoing outside felt like walking into an oven or like being punctured by thousands of hot little needles, one in every skin pore.
Read MoreI’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.
Read MoreI 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.
Read MoreFascial breathing is quite striking the first time you tune into it. It might even seem unnerving if you‘re not used to being so intimate with your aliveness. Fascial breathing makes it obvious that you’re alive in your body. This may touch your vulnerability, reminding you of your impermanence.
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