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Topic: Body

Let Your Jaw Speak

Your avenue of expression includes your jaw, tongue, throat, and the surrounding muscles and bones that support you in making sound to communicate your thoughts and emotions. Physical movement in your avenue of expression creates sound. Immobility is silent. Essential gateway The mouth is a gateway to breath, nourishment, verbal expression, sensing taste and texture,… Read More

December 1, 2013 sonia

Topic: Body

How to Irritate Your Nervous System

Your nervous system interprets sensations and enables actions. It contains two parts: Central nervous system – brain and spinal cord Peripheral nervous system – branching network of nerves throughout the body Your nervous system constantly transmits electrical and biochemical signals back and forth between your brain and the rest of your body. Physical irritation is… Read More

October 1, 2012 sonia

Topic: Body

Change the Rules, Inhabit Your Pelvis

Do you inhabit your pelvis, or is it a numb absence at your center? Curious toddlers and maturing adolescents absorb their parents’ discomfort with the pelvic area. Sexual abuse survivors detour around painful memories stored there. Cultural rules encourage us to withdraw awareness from our pelvis except during sex, and maybe even then. The pelvis… Read More

July 1, 2012 sonia

Topic: Body

Claim Your Space, Breathe into Your Back

Take a moment to notice your breathing. What parts of your body move with your breath? Did your breathing shift as you observed it? Notice any judgments about your own breathing. Your personal cathedral Shallow chest breathing takes up as little space as possible. Deeper belly breathing pushes out into the world. Back breathing claims… Read More

November 1, 2010 sonia

Topic: Body

Befriend Your Pain

Physical pain is often a result of trauma, both directly from the event itself and indirectly from ongoing tension. When we relate to pain as a friend bearing a message rather than an enemy to be feared, we can reduce the suffering we experience. Fighting pain We often view pain as an enemy to be… Read More

May 1, 2010 sonia

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