From Core to Floor - 1 - The Cork Lesson

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From Core to Floor - 1 - The Cork Lesson

As Above, So Below - Lips, Breath, Floor

Based on “Pelvic Floor Workshop - Lesson 5 - Cork in the Mouth” by Mara Fusero

Approach the pelvic floor from the top down: from lips to lips, so to speak.

The pelvic floor is key to improving movement performance, continence, intimacy, posture or general well-being.

This lesson guides us to the pelvic floor, indirectly, through the mouth, tongue and lips.

Paula Garbourg, author of “The Secret of the Ring Muscles” observed that when the sphincters, or Ring Muscles,  all work together, we are in good health. The ring muscle system includes all the ring muscles around the eyes, mouth, urinary canal and anus, as well as non-ring muscles: eyebrows, eyeballs, nostrils, tongue, ears, hands and feet.

“In the Feldenkrais Method it is the body itself that is used as the fundamental tool for an individual’s deep process of personal evolution...
Forgotten paths in our ability to sense, feel, think and act are explored – making it possible to lead a full life, and make decisions according to one’s full potential.”
— Mara Fusero, GCFT®

Scientific studies confirm the power of distant ring muscles to reduce incontinence and improve quality of life.

This lesson explores the connections between mouth and pelvic floor ring muscles. A cork as a prop helps amplify the sensations. Blow on the cork, kiss the cork, move it in all directions. In time, the pelvic floor’s echos of these machinations come into consciousness. You may find yourself walking around the house, cork in lips, after this lesson.

Mara Fusero, Feldenkrais Trainer since 2010, developed this lesson for her pelvic floor series. Thanks to colleague Paula Alonzo for teaching this lesson to our learning circle.

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Bring a cork to class!

Set Up:

  • Lying on mat with a standing scan at start and finish.

  • Or sitting on flat bottom chair so that thighs and hips are level

  • Have a clean, wine-bottle sized cork or comparable object

How You Might Feel After This Lesson: Face, Jaw and Lips soft and relaxed, Pelvic Floor activated and easily sensed, Breath, pelvic floor and lips synchronized; Sexier.

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Jacki Katzman