Short lessons to relieve tension

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calming

It’s easy to get stuck in a stress response with tightening the belly and gripping the jaw. These lessons interrupt the stress response and invite calm.

Shoulders

This area can be so tight so often we sometimes forget what it feels like to release it. Try these “tricks” to sneak around your habits. Watch your jaw as you do these, too, and practice keeping the teeth separated.

Low back

Try these to unravel tightness and tension in the low back. Attend to the quality of the movement, making it smoother and lighter each time.

dynamic sitting

Many people ask me the correct way to sit. My immediate response is: get out of gravity and lie on the floor for ten minutes every hour or two because humans were not designed to sit still for a long time. You’ll feel so much lighter just by letting your spine decompress throughout the day.

The goal is not to figure out how to be static and love it, but rather how to sit more dynamically because stillness is death, in every sense of the word.

That said, there are many things you can do to keep mobile while sitting, including moving your spine in many directions, relieving tension in the neck, and unwinding the shoulders and hips.

Jaw and eyes

Tension likes to lurk in the jaw and eyes and it’s mostly unconscious. Use these lessons to settle the excess, unnecessary tension and return to a soft, easy quality in the face, neck, jaw, and eyes.