JawSpace

In this lesson you will learn about the round muscles of your face and how balancing the expanding and compression forces can help you feel more alert, relaxed and tuned-in.

The Waking up the Face series is designed to prime you for the lessons of the jaw

Joe guides you through an awareness lesson on the shape and placement of the tongue

Imagination can be so stimulating.  Just imagining food can make us salivate or pucker!  Learn what sensations of hunger and taste can do to reawaken the sensation of the lips.

Trace the size and shape of your mouth and lips while opening and closing the lips.  Your hands can be used as a feed-back system to help inform your brain about your lips.  After all, we initially learn our lips through touch in development.   Margi teaches you to map your lips to your brain! 

Joe helps you to learn about your lips in the way that an infant learns to produce speech- with babbling and experimentation.  

We often don't associate the clenching in our teeth with the quality of sensation in our lips.   However, sensations compete.  Have you ever gotten rid of a headache by banging your toe?  

By learning to produce a relaxing sensation of the lips, the muscular tone of the face changes, and habitual gripping starts to fade away.   Learn to find ease in your lips and you will surely find ease in your cheeks in chin.  

Enjoy these lip lessons.  They are designed to prime your brain for the lessons of the jaw.

The movements of the shoulders and neck are interconnected. Exploring their relationship can help open up new possibilities for movement in the head and jaw.

Sliding the arms up and down on the floor allow the shoulder blades to move on the back in the second lesson she calls "Evergreen Tree." 

Margi teaches us how to connect the shoulders to the arms and back in parts 1 and 2 of the lessons she calls "Evergreen Tree." 

Imagine yourself a Sea Turtle in this playful relationship to breath and floating