JawSpace

Releasing tension in the face is an artful balance. Often, when given the gift of time and guidance, old patterns can begin to dissolve and make space for new. This lesson is a simple scan to help individuals break down unnecessary work. Visit carolinefeig.com for more info.

In this lesson you will begin to uncover the relationship between your jaw and the base of your head. The top jaw is connected to the base of your head, while the lower jaw moves separately (see Jaw movements with whispered ahhh). What does this have to do with breath? The nasal passages, the diaphragm? Practice this lesson and improve this relationship of structures. For more info or training, check out carolinefeig.com.

Sometimes it’s tension in the lips that we are holding. Sometimes we are pursing or pouting unconsciously. This lesson will help you let go of places where your expressions feel stuck, so you can feel more playful and easy. For more info, visit poisealexander.com

Find more options of availability or range on your face, and you will change your habits and self use. This lesson will focus on the down and up muscles of pouting vs smiling. For more info, visit poisealexander.com

This lesson combines the relaxation of the whispered ahhh with basic movements of the jaw to unlock holding patterns and enliven the face. For more info, visit carolinefeig.com

The whispered “ah” will help you discover resonance and freedom in your skull and neck. This series will focus on “ah” as a way to reduce tension while moving the jaw. Visit poisealexander.com for more info

Learn how the lips function to seal. Returning to this very developmental function will help you unlock tension in the jaw. Visit caroline Feig.com for more info

Joe makes clear a very mystifying concept: how does movement in the shoulders impact the freedom of the head and neck. Visit joemilleryoga.com for more info

Learning to release habitual patterns in the mouth can help with basic function: breathing, digestion, and ease of movements. Learn how marvelous it can feel to let your mouth open and take in a vital breath.

Discover how tapping can bring about change in the muscular tone in the face. This lesson is about unfreezing patterns of clenching. For more info, visit carolinefeig.com

The jaw is a hinge, and the movements are fairly simple.  But it is the life of the jaw that makes it work.  Jaw movements are only one component to  eating, kissing and yawning, but how does it integrate with the expressions of the face?      Visit carolinefeig.com for more info

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

In this lesson, you will discover how everyday movements, such as removing food from between your teeth, influences subtle motion of the jaw. This will provide you with much more freedom of movement of the mouth.

We know that there is not only one movement for any part of the body.  In this lesson, Joe teaches you how the tongue reshapes itself when producing sound. Visit joemilleryoga.com for more info

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

The muscles of the shoulders can be considered the foundation of the head and jaw. As these lessons on the shoulders progress, you will find that you are able to let go of unnecessary work along your shoulders, ribs, neck and spine. For more information, visit carolinefeig.com

Part 3: Posture has everything to do with neck and jaw alignment.  Perhaps the greatest way to learn efficient head and neck posture is through the Alexander Technique.  Margi, who is a very seasoned Alexander practitioner, draws on her knowledge and experience to guide us into finding proper head and neck posture.  She teaches us how to  "un-do" habits of tensing and clenching, while replacing them with sensations of expansion and spaciousness.  This lesson comes in 3 parts. Visit www.poisealexander.com for more information.

Part 2: Posture has everything to do with neck and jaw alignment.  Perhaps the greatest way to learn efficient head and neck posture is through the Alexander Technique.  Margi, who is a very seasoned Alexander practitioner, draws on her knowledge and experience to guide us into finding proper head and neck posture.  She teaches us how to  "un-do" habits of tensing and clenching, while replacing them with sensations of expansion and spaciousness.  This lesson comes in 3 parts. Visit www.poisealexander.com for more info

Posture has everything to do with neck and jaw alignment.  Perhaps the greatest way to learn efficient head and neck posture is through the Alexander Technique.  Margi, who is a very seasoned Alexander practitioner, draws on her knowledge and experience to guide us into finding proper head and neck posture.  She teaches us how to  "un-do" habits of tensing and clenching, while replacing them with sensations of expansion and spaciousness.  This lesson comes in 3 parts.  Visit www.poisealexander.com for more info

It is well known that faulty head and neck posture places stress on the alignment of the jaw.  But where to begin?  How does a person know "which posture" will help them decompress?  As Moshe Feldenkrais described it, the word "posture" is a false term in the first place, as its root is static, as in to "to post."  We are moving beings, and so our posture needs to be as "plastic" or "changeable" as our actions.  Visit www.carolinefeig.com for more info