“Liberating Your Neck and Jaw” meets “Listening With Your Whole Body”, on “Moon River.” Audrey and Aretha are our guides to filling the lungs, quadrant by quadrant, and releasing, for power and beauty.
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The lesson goes upright to bring the series into the practical: balancing the head in perfectly while letting your heart ring true.
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November 2, 2021 is the free bonus day for “Never Stop: The Artistry of Self-Care and Creativity for Lifelong Embodied Performances. Talks on how Awareness Through Movement® can help high-performing actors, classical musicians and formal dancers break the shackles of ‘technique,’ avoid stress injuries and find freedom for creativity. For the rest of us, terrific talks on embodying social justice.
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Imagine your tongue as the very tip of your spine and stretch.
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Liberating Your Neck and Jaw - 5 - Untie Your Tongue - tongue ‘posture’ can affect vision, balance, neck alignment and more. An exercise in tongue untying.
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Liberating Your Neck and Jaw - 4 - More Jaw Connections - recap lessons to date, add the shoulders and roll with it. Who knew the jaw could help a swing?
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Liberating Your Neck and Jaw - 3 - Arch and round the back as a wave; coordinate eyes, head and jaw for even more fluid moves.
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Creative inspiration - How composer, musician, author, seeker (and my bass teacher) Ruth Mendelson nutures and heeds the call to create. Expanding Reality podcast.
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According to experts cited by the Washington Post, sharing novel experiences is a great way to reconnect with friends. What’s more novel than an Awareness Through Movement® lesson, even if we are still connecting by Zoom.
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Liberating Your Neck and Jaw 2 - Side Sliding Right Into the Ribs - experimenting with how the alignment of the jaw side-to-side can affect whole body balance.
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Fifty years after it first launched, “Songs of the Humpback Whale” has inspired environmentalists, oceanographers, listeners and musicians. Meet Katy and Roger Payne, who brought whale song to the world.
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A recent article in Science New proposes that psychological richness, along with happiness and meaning, make for well-being. In other words, you don’t need to suffer, but you don’t need to be stable and happy to live a satisfying life.
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Research says: Challenging the brain makes for a better workout. (NYT)
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Liberating Your Neck and Jaw - 1 - Here’s a hint: the nose and the pubic bone move together. The spine stabilizes to support the head to move.
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2021 was a good year for loon nests on favorite kayaking ponds. Take a look.
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Come Out, Come Out. Wherever You Are. Liberating Your Neck and Jaw begin Wednesday, September 22 @9:30 AM and 6:30 PM.
This series guides you to trace the connections from your neck, jaw and tongue to the entire body. That crick in your neck might come from your foot, hip or spine. Remind yourself how to move with grace and ease. Six week plus bonus session series. Register.
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