String of Pearls/Solid Support - 2 - Side Sliding Jaw/Tiny Weight Shifts
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String of Pearls / Solid Support
2 - Side Sliding Jaw/Tiny Weight Shifts
Based on “Liberating Your Neck and Jaw series” as taught by David Zemach-Berson, GCFT®
The jaw, the gliding and hinge temporomandibular joint, is the most-used joint in the body. A tiny habitual preference for holding the jaw to one side can affect the tilt of the head, binocular vision, and tension in the ribs. Find out if you have any interesting little habits that have full-body impacts.
This week we do some jaw side-sliding to feel how the movement of the jaw affects the balance of the head on the neck and spine, down, even to the ribs.
As the series creator, David Zemach-Berson GCFT®, reminds us, this is a go-slow process. The tinier the movements, the more you will feel and the faster you will move towards deeper relaxation and improvement - towards better posture, deeper breath, twistier twists, and away from text neck and collateral pain. This is another trance-inducing session, so we will take some time to reintegrate at the end.
Science Nerd Candy Bowl: See all the great info from the last round of this series
Set Up:
Lying supine (on your back) with appropriate head support. Cervical spine alignment is critical to this lesson, so pay close attention to whether you can easily swallow while lying on your back. If your saliva catches at all, bring some support for the back of your head or neck.
Some poeple may want support under their knees or low back. You know what you need.
Or sit with sit bones perched at the edge of a flat chair with knees and hips level; support behind the back is fine as long as you can rock your pelvis freely.
How you might feel after this lesson: Relaxed, taller, softer neck and jaw, deeper breath, new information about blocks and kinks between jaw and skull, jaw and neck, jaw and shoulder, right and down to the ribs.
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