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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.
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.
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.
A MEDITATION FOR YOUR EYES
Avoid imagining a baby’s face, a lovely sunset, or a pleasant event. Instead, let your eyes gaze at a doorknob or a light switch—ordinary things. The purpose is not to induce a mental or emotional state, but simply to notice the physical sensations in your body that accompany smiling with your eyes.
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.
Micromovement, Saliva and Posture
Today I learned something important about the micromovement of my tongue.
Women's Bodies and Pelvic Mobility
When I'm relaxed, I can cherish the lushness within my pelvis. But numbed by the sensory contradictions of contemporary life, I must make an effort to seek that deep energetic center.
Acting My Age
Sometimes I think about Diane Feinstein running for Congress for the umteenth time. Or Dame Judi Dench making film after film. We are not all given the same energies and capacities and I have to respect that—respect myself in that.
Posture and Procrastination
I don't think the earth feels equally solid to everyone, or even equally solid to anyone from one moment to the next. In this moment, I only seem to be relaxing. In fact I'm in a state of procrastination and my to-do list looms in the air about three feet away.
Tail Space and Posture
Trash day offers me 61 opportunities to lengthen my anococcygeal ligament, one for every step.
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.
Sisters of the pelvis
We dipped into pelvic dance, the ancient feminine communion originally meant to prepare women for pregnancy and childbirth. We explored the possibility of dancing from our ovaries, from our cervices. If we could dance that way, could we not also walk that way? But where and when, in current culture, would that feel safe?
Posture, Elbows and Consciousness
As a Rolfing® practitioner, I've observed that tension in the elbows affects the whole body. Habitual flexion there, however slight, pulls the upper arm forward in its socket, starting a chain reaction that pulls the shoulder blades forward, and the collarbones and chest down, and the neck forward. Elbow tension often corresponds with flexion in the spine just behind the diaphragm, and that interferes with fullness of breath. The postural end result feels, and certainly looks, nothing like the upper crust ladies of Downton…
Posture, Perception and Presence
Since I’m not prolific—one every 10 years is all I can manage—it was easy to forget how stressful writing a book can be. I’m organizing the new book in a non-linear way, so I keep reviewing and revising–I want to hold it all in my mind and not repeat myself. This takes time and patience. Despite my efforts to stay present with the process, I experience surges of fear that I’ll never see the last page…
- Posture improvement
- good posture
- body-mind connection
- yoga
- pilates
- breathing
- stress
- low back pain
- sitting posture
- spatial perception
- rounded shoulders
- shoulder tension
- fascia
- walking posture
- body awareness
- core strength
- posture
- fascia research
- neck tension
- jaw tension
- aging
- fascial connectivity
- tensegrity
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