Teach your feet to respond to gravity by emulating tree roots. Sink the heels and let the top of the foot expand forward. The feet echo the pelvic floor’s movement.
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Read MoreLearning From Trees - 3 - Roots Down, Heels Sinking
Teach your feet to respond to gravity by emulating tree roots. Sink the heels and connect up to your trunk.
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Read MoreLearning From Trees - 2 - Xylem, Phloem and Tori
Balancing upward and downward energy flows for a taller, more stable posture and connection to the universal torus-shaped energy flow.
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Read MoreLearning From Trees - 1- Phloem and Xylem
Balancing upward and downward energy flows for a taller, more stable posture.
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Read MorePelvic Floor Revisited: Spiraling In - 12 - Receiving the Belly from the Side (Fiddling Arms)
Stack shoulders stack hips while side lying, and experiment with receiving the inhale and belly into the pelvic floor.
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Read MorePelvic Floor Revisited: Spiraling In - 11 - Receiving with a Twist - Flexors and Extensors
Inhale and receive the belly into the pelvic floor, Then try a twist.
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Read MorePelvic Floor Revisited: Spiraling In - 10 - Pressure Drop, Practice Relax
Shift your attention to relaxing the pelvic floor to receive the inhale and all that goes with it. Sense the moment when the pelvic floor releases and the moment it engages. Simple hip lifts are the structure for the exploration.
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Read MorePelvic Floor Revisited: Spiraling In - 9 - Feet, Floor and Eyes
Connecting feet to the pelvic floor, with a little guidance from the eyes. Paint the floor with a lovely, creamy, blob of paint that lets you slide in all directions to sense from foot to floor to pelvic floor.
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Read MorePelvic Floor Revisited: Spiraling In - 8 - Shoulders Down, Floor UP
Find the power in your exhale: as the shoulders ground down, the pelvic floor contracts up. The combination, in the right sequence, creates stability and freedom to direct your power.
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Read MorePelvic Floor Revisited: Spiraling In - 7 - Strong Floor, Easy Chest, Smart Psoas, Sideways
Build on last week’s lesson of supine heel-lifting to sync the mysterious psoas and breathing. Apply your legs’ weight in slow, eccentric contractions to strengthen the pelvic floor and spinal muscles for supported, sustainable movement. A continuation of AY 97 with side lying variations.
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Read MorePelvic Floor Revisited: Spiraling In - 6 - Strong Floor, Easy Chest
Apply your legs’ weight in slow, eccentric contractions to strengthen the pelvic floor and muscles along the spine. A strong floor, stacked spine, and soft chest enable new movement options including deeper breaths.
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Read MoreThe Lusty Month of May - Ribbon Lessons
Grab an imaginary ribbon, tie it on, and allow your imaginary perfect practice partner pull oh-so-gently. These selected, classic Awareness Through Movement® lessons are playful, simple, and familiar. Dance with season.
Let the ribbon draw your chest, back, belly and low back forward and back to create more opening, deeper breath. Tie the ribbons together in different combination to stand taller, release your low back, and all the benefits of an elongated spine.
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Read MoreThe Lusty Month of May - Ribbon Lessons
Grab an imaginary ribbon, tie it on, and allow your imaginary perfect practice partner pull oh-so-gently. These selected, classic Awareness Through Movement® lessons are playful, simple, and familiar. Dance with season.
Let the ribbon draw your chest, back, belly and low back forward and back to create more opening, deeper breath. Tie the ribbons together in different combination to stand taller, release your low back, and all the benefits of an elongated spine.
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Read MoreThe Lusty Month of May - Ribbon Lessons
Grab an imaginary ribbon, tie it on, and allow your imaginary perfect practice partner pull oh-so-gently. These selected, classic Awareness Through Movement® lessons are playful, simple, and familiar. Dance with season.
Hold the ribbon to your shoulder, your hip, in one hand or both, and let the dance guide you into the grace of connected, effortless movement.
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Read MoreString of Pearls/Solid Support: Spine in the Middle
Spiraling through the series themes; old lesson with new options, new awareness.
Taking it to the center with a series exploring the spine from the tip of the tongue to the root of the sacrum. Take time to notice the the subtle shifts in balance with just a slight tip to one side of the jaw. Feel the echos through the neck, shoulders, spine, pelvis, eyes and hands. Lots to chew on.
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Read MoreString of Pearls/Solid Support: Spine in the Middle
Reaching and rollling - extending the spine from the head down, connecting mid-back to the whole
Taking it to the center with a series exploring the spine from the tip of the tongue to the root of the sacrum. Take time to notice the the subtle shifts in balance with just a slight tip to one side of the jaw. Feel the echos through the neck, shoulders, spine, pelvis, eyes and hands. Lots to chew on.
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Read MoreString of Pearls/Solid Support: Spine in the Middle
Reaching and rollling - extending the spine and fine-tune adjusting as the body rolls around it
Taking it to the center with a series exploring the spine from the tip of the tongue to the root of the sacrum. Take time to notice the the subtle shifts in balance with just a slight tip to one side of the jaw. Feel the echos through the neck, shoulders, spine, pelvis, hands and in eating. Lots to chew on.
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Read MoreString of Pearls/Solid Support: Spine in the Middle
Reaching and rollling - find space to in the spoine to reach and roll
Taking it to the center with a series exploring the spine from the tip of the tongue to the root of the sacrum. Take time to notice the the subtle shifts in balance with just a slight tip to one side of the jaw. Feel the echos through the neck, shoulders, spine, pelvis, hands and in eating. Lots to chew on.
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