The Light Returns - 5 - Eyes, Tongue, Body as One
The body is wired to follow the eyes. Shifting the tongue subtly tips the head, spine and pelvis. Synch the tongue and eyes for surprising shifts in balance, momentum and focus.
The body is wired to follow the eyes. Shifting the tongue subtly tips the head, spine and pelvis. Synch the tongue and eyes for surprising shifts in balance, momentum and focus.
An internal anatomy lesson, using your tongue as a pointer, to locate the eyes from inside. Seek the subtle connections from the tongue, a “rudder” for the spine, and the body’s natural reaction to follow the eyes. Relax deeply as the orbs of your eyes learn to consciously float in their protective eye-socket caves.
Don an eye patch and sway side to side - and expand your peripheral vision. Focus on a point while your body moves around your eyes. Then close your eyes, imagine that point and match your imagination to reality. With practice, reality and imagination merge as your dominant and non-dominant eyes learn to better coordinate.
Imagine a beam of light from your eyes to your hands, and use that image to test your close range focus. This lesson calls on imagination and relaxation to learn more about what your eyes are really doing.
Lie on the floor and let your eyes wander side to side, far up and down, for a deeply relaxing session that also gently works the muscles around the eyes.
The series grand finale goes from floor to feet, with practical applications for walking, standing, and (so timely for this week’s massive blizzard) skiing.
Relive that breakthrough moment when your baby self reached for that thing to the side - and got it! Relearn rolling, from toes to fingertips, with a pelvis and shoulders in between.
Relive that breakthrough moment when your baby self rocked her head up. It’s an extended rocking moment that starts in the toes and propels the head and chest UP.
Relive that breakthrough moment when your baby self began to lift her head. It’s a rocking moment that starts with the toes and moves all the way to the head.
Rock from the feet right up to the head’s center of gravity. Hands on the hip bones sense, and potentially adjust, the pelvis’ side-to-side balance. A low impact session with a big neuroplasticity hit.
Coordinate your organic rhythms beginning by rocking your pelvis in sync with your breath. Sense the relaxation and ease of moving with organic rhythms.