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Pelvic Floor Revisited: Spiraling In - 9 - Feet, Floor, Eyes

Pelvic 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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Pelvic Floor Revisited: Spiraling In - 8 - Shoulders Down, Floor Up

Pelvic 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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Pelvic Floor Revisited: Spiraling In - 7 - Strong Floor, Easy Chest, Smart Psoas, Sideways

Pelvic 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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Pelvic Floor Revisited: Spiraling In - 6 - Strong Floor, Easy Chest

Pelvic 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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Pelvic Floor Revisited: Spiraling In - 5 - More Glute, More Kiss (The Half Ass Lesson)

Pelvic Floor Revisited: Spiraling In - 5 - More Glute, More Kiss

Work those glutes. Keep blowing kisses. Strengthen the pelvic floor and all the circular muscles for better definition and retentionl A variation of the “half ass” lesson.

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Pelvic Floor Revisited: Spiraling In - 4 - Squeeze and a Kiss continued

Pelvic Floor Revisited: Spiraling In - 4 - A Kiss and A Squeeze continued

Another chance to soften your face, coordinate your circle muscles for improved health, and strengthen your glutes. All at once.

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Pelvic Floor Revisited: Spiraling In - 3 - Squeeze and a Kiss

Pelvic Floor Revisited: Spiraling In - 3 - A Squeeze and A Kiss

Domes are the theme this week as we link the upward force of the pelvic floor activation with the lips/cheeks and the powerful glutes.

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Pelvic Floor Revisited: Spiraling In - 2 - Ab Grab and the Deep Squeeze

A time to release and a time to squeeze. Work less and conserve more. Experience pelvic floor strength when exhaling is synchronized with drawing in and up with the abs and the pelvic floor.

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Pelvic Floor Revisited: Spiraling In - 1 - Up and Down, Side to Side

Develop a felt sense of your pelvic floor system. Experience how breathing expands and releases the pelvic floor as you rock the pelvic front and back and how the legs help rock the pelvis side to side. An introduction for new students, a fresh look for returnees.

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Long Neck, Heavy Head - 14 - Stack the Spine, Release The Head - Series Recap

Long Neck, Heavy Head - 14 - Stack the Spine, Release The Head recap

A series review; all the lesson’s lessons for a long neck that perfectly balances a heavy head . Recalling setting the shoulder, bear hug back massage, hip to jaw connections, low back and neck connections, side bending, circling the head, stacking the spine, and balancing the head on C7. A long, profound series; so much relaxation!

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Long Neck, Heavy Head - 13 - Stack the Spine, Circle C7 continued even more

Long Neck, Heavy Head - 13 - Stack The Spine, Circle C7 continued more

Eliminate the crease at the nape of your neck. Everything lines up better when the nod of the head is just right.

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Long Neck, Heavy Head - 12- Stack the Spine, Circle C7 continued

Long Neck, Heavy Head - 12 - Stack The Spine, Circle C7 continued

Climb up the spine, in your awareness, stacking the spine the whole way. Circling the base of the neck, with different arrangements of arms and pelvis, links the head to the entire body.

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Long Neck, Heavy Head - 11 - Stack the Spine, Circle C7

Long Neck, Heavy Head - 11 - Stack The Spine, Circle the Neck

Circling the base of the neck, with different arrangements of arms and pelvis, is a tour of the connections from the head to the entire body.

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Long Neck, Heavy Head - 10 - Stack the Spine, Align the Ribs

Stack the spine, keep the chest soft and breath easy, shake from the heels and the tummy shakes ‘like a jelly pudding.’ That jiggling lets you know you are doing it right: the optimal balance of spinal support and total relaxation.

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Long Neck, Heavy Head - 9 - Roll Head With Whole Body (The Frog Crawl)

Long Neck, Heavy Head -9 - Roll Head With The Whole Body (The Frog Crawl)

Try combining the front crawl and the frog kick, and you get a sense of the novel moves in this lesson. Breath, chest, spine, shoulder blades, head rolling, long wrists, low back long, and arms and legs circling in their sockets - another take on a long neck, heavy head.

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Long Neck, Heavy Head - 8 - Swoop Head Like a Pendulum

Sit and let your head swoop like a pendulum. When your whole body supports the head, the shoulder and neck release is wonderful and rolling up from the floor with grace even easier.

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Long Neck, Heavy Head - 7 - Hip Head Lift Continued

Let the hips and shoulders support the head, continued. We will recap the series to date, with hugs, hip rolls, shoulder rolls on back on on the side. Then pick up on the side, connecting heel to sacrum to back of head to stack the spine and free the head and ribs.

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Long Neck, Heavy Head - 6 - Hip Head Lift

Long Neck, Heavy Heavy Head - 6 - Hip Head Lift

Let the hips and shoulders support the head. The lesson starts on the side, but translates to front and back with the help of a deep twist.

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