🔺Ever feel like your jaw is trying to hold you up?

🌀The nervous system’s #1 goal is to keep your head from falling in the ground.

🔺If it doesn’t feel supported from underneath, your muscles will tense to great lengths to keep you upright.

🌀The trouble is, if your jaw’s tied up holding you upright, then it’s not free for other things- like expressing your mind, emotions, and spirit.

🔺(It also might create a feedback loop of making you feel angry, like it does for me. Tense your jaw- see what I mean?)

🌀Instead of relying on the subconscious balancing coping mechanisms of your body, try discovering and learning about the deep support inherent in your structure when you cooperate with it- however it shows up.

🌬 Try this short exercise as a practice:

Put your hands gently on your jaw-joint. Invite it to soften. This may or may not be accessible to you right away. Try to let go of needing it to change right away :)
Now shift your attention to your sits bones. Notice them being supported from underneath- by the chair, the couch, the floor- every place they’re touching is a potential place of support .
Shift to your feet on the ground. Notice them being supported from underneath.
Feel the ground reactive force move through your structure, past your jaw, all the way to the top of your spine (between your ears).
Sense the weight of your head balancing on the top of your spine.
Check back in with your jaw. Is it a little easier?

🔺Most of us rely on the subconscious balancing coping mechanisms of our bodies. What if we discovered and learned about the deep support accessible in our structures and environment?

🌀What if we cooperate with the support inherent in our unique structure and relationships with the earth?

🗣Why isn’t this taught in schools?

🌀Here’s your body- it’s an 💫amazing miracle💫! Let’s understand it in order to cooperate with it and learn sustainable movement- for creative action 👣🎉.