Like a Natural Woman - 6 - Soft Lips - The Cork Lesson
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Like A Natural Woman - 6 - Soft Lips
Soften the lips, soften the system - Bring a Cork!
Based on “Pelvic Floor Workshop - Lesson 5 - Cork in the Mouth” by Mara Fusero
Bring a cork to class!
For habitually used muscles, softening is the precursor to strengthening. This is another lesson is sensing tension and softening. This time, lips are where we begin.
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, all the way down the digestive tract to the urinary canal and anus, as well as non-ring muscles: eyebrows, eyeballs, nostrils, tongue, ears, hands and feet.
Explore the connections between mouth and pelvic floor ring muscles. A cork between the lips amplifies the sensations. Blow on the cork, kiss the cork, move it in all directions. In time, the pelvic floor’s ring muscles begin to harmonize. You may find yourself walking around the house, cork in lips, practicing your Mona Lisa smile and Marilyn Monroe air kiss.
“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, 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.
Science Nerd Candy:
You might want to review posts on:
More Pelvic Floor lessons for links to pelvic floor anatomy.
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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A grown up woman sings it. Peggy Lee takes it simple, and husky.