Orchestra and Balcony - 3 - You Know How to Whistle, Steve, Don't You?
More Pelvic Floor - Orchestra and Balcony Continued - How To Whistle
“You just put your lips together and blow”
Lauren Bacall “To Have and Have Not” 1944 image: envisioningtheamericandream.com:
“You know how to whistle, don’t you, Steve? You just put your lips together and blow.”
“In order to change our mode of action, we must change the image of ourselves that we carry within us.”
Bring your best inner Lauren Bacall to class as we soften and plump our lips. This lesson is pure pleasure.
First you have to do the homework, and obtain a wine bottle cork. It can be natural or plastic; either is fine as long as it is clean enough to put between your lips.
If you don’t have a cork on hand, you might have to drink your way to one. Or, you could substitute your great uncle’s nasty stogie. (Uncle Menasha always had a fat little unlit cigar between his lips, He removed it only for food or shot of slivovitz.)
This lesson comes from Italian Feldenkrais trainer Mara Fusero, Instituto Feldenkrais. My colleague Paula Alonzo introduced me to Mara’s pelvic floor series. I imagine Mara as Sophia Loren, teaching an ATM in Italian-accented English, with long lunch breaks in the olive grove, while somewhere in the background someone sings an aria.
Mara walks the Italian countryside with a cork in her mouth as part of her pelvic floor awareness study. I can verify that this practice does connect the pelvic floor and the lips.
Bacall was a teenager when she shot this scene, but lips that can whistle are the right of women of any age. So, along with a supple pelvis and chest circles, we can show the younger ones how it’s done. We may have to reimagine our self image - so here we go.
No science nerd candy this lesson. You might refer back posts on to the muscles of the face and, the tongue for relevant anatomy images. You might also practice your chest circles and pelvic floor contractions to get in the mood.
This lesson begins (optionally) standing and moves to lying on the floor. Have your cork ready!
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.