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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.
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.
Office Chairs and Sitting
When you sit with your thighs slanting downhill, your pelvis automatically finds an orientation that supports a neutral lumbar spine. When a chair is too low, your pelvis rolls posterior so your weight rests too far back—on your tailbone—and your spine above becomes compressed.
Finger Shoes
I love the feeling that each of my toes is independently awake. The shoes make my toe pads want to investigate the ground.
Manspread Explained
To roll forward onto an upright pelvis often requires a manual adjustment men would rather not make in public. He told me about friction between the fabric of jeans, an undergarment, and the skin of the scrotum. Especially when the weather is warm . . .
The Feet of the Pelvis
I began to be curious about how that deep front line of the leg might affect or be affected by the deep line within my torso. What was my psoas muscle up to?
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.
Fascia and Fitness
Healthy, hydrated fascia is an essential ingredient in enduring youthfulness and grace of movement. The stiffness we experience when we begin to age is a sign that fascial layers are dehydrated and are becoming adhered to one another.
Mastectomy, Spatial Perception and Movement
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.
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.