All eye lessons

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This is a brilliant lesson for everyone who has ever worked at a computer, which is pretty much everyone. As you explore different movements of the eyes at different distances, the fixed distance of starting at a screen and its associated neck tension starts to soften. Unhooking the co-dependent relationship of the eyes and neck can have an enormous effect on the lightness, fluidity, and ease of your whole self.

Some movements in this lesson can be tricky. Do not assume you should have the skill to do them immediately. Make small iterations and the skill will emerge over time. I give this to many clients when they have eye or neck fatigue.

Here is a short version you can do sitting in a chair at work:
7 Eye variations to free the neck, 13 min

The very cool continuation of the focal distance lesson. There’s no doubt, it’s a bit of a brain scramble, but it’s on purpose. This is one lesson that’s hard to forget, it has so much novelty for the system.

It’s all good, because the more differentiated and the less stuck you are, the easier it is to respond when life throws a curve ball.

This is a slow lesson that tilts the head and pelvis, linking it with the eyes, breath, and chest. Then, of course, you vary the pattern in different ways, for example, eye by eye.

As you return again and again to the inner space and the image of action you have constructed for yourself, you start to feel a sense of connection from the head to the pelvis. The result is improved balance, weight shift, and ease in standing.

This lesson is about balance: circling the eyes, shifting the legs, and testing many options for how we manage uprightness. The more eye lessons you do, the more you discover habits you can let go of. This lesson frees the head and neck by taking inventories of other sensations as you move the eyes. It’s worth doing for the freedom in the head and neck!

More movements of circling and arcing the eyes. The eye lessons can be emotional, so give yourself lots of rests. We connect to the world, to others, to the horizon, to our sense of safety, through the movements of the eyes, so be extra kind to yourself!

This lesson is more similar to the focal distance lesson at the beginning of this series: Lots of fixing the head and moving in interesting ways relative to a fixed spot. More and more differentiation of the eye muscles to free the neck.

This part has some fun circles of the nose and the eyes. Test it out and see what you can play with—and smile!