Mandible, Maxillae, Molars and Movement
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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.
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Yoga, Alignment and Movement
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Diminished spatial perception creates compression in the body. That diminution of interior body space is a major cause of poor postural organization and limited range of motion. Changing how you stand or move is not the answer. Changing how you perceive and interact with the world is.
Read MoreTongue Support for Diaphragmatic Breathing
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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.
Read MoreSpatial Orientation as a Source of Support
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This exploration is one I share with nearly every one of my private clients. Awareness of the space around our bodies is uplifting. It emancipates joints, making movement freer, as I hope you’ll be able to feel for yourself..
Read MorePerceptual Tensegrity
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Tensegral body attitude, by expanding the space within the torso, grants more living room to your organs, beneficially affecting all visceral functions, including circulation, respiration, and digestion. And, because expansive visceral space contributes to high vagal tone, it can positively affect both health and social connectedness.
Read MorePosture and Perception
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The contemporary workplace, where our eyes are trained on screens for many hours, skews the natural balance between peripheral and foveal vision (sharp, central focus responsible for details). This has a profound impact on our bodies.
Read MoreSentient Fingers
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Today I was fascinated by her hands, how fluidly they float through the air, transform into fists without warning, and then melt again into clouds.
Read MoreEmbodiment During a Heatwave?
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Going outside felt like walking into an oven or like being punctured by thousands of hot little needles, one in every skin pore.
Read MoreFinger Shoes
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I love the feeling that each of my toes is independently awake. The shoes make my toe pads want to investigate the ground.
Read MoreMastectomy, Spatial Perception and Movement
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After explaining these phenomena to my client, I suggested she notice any sense of diminished movement on the affected side. To become more aware of the space around her body she could imagine a sphere—something like a snow globe—and standing within it, notice differences her sense of the qualities of the space on each side.
Read MoreMorning Posture; Morning Attitude
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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.
Read MoreLiving in the Sagittal Plane
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Not merely aware of the space around them, our ancestors were integrated into their surroundings. We can imagine that they viewed themselves—if they viewed themselves at all--as aspects of the tensional integrity of all life.
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