Saturday Audiotapes

by date, earliest on top

  • Thumb-sucking, May 3rd 2025

  • Krista’s lesson April 26th, 2025:

  • Bonus Tape April 21st, 2025: Coordinate the Diaphragm & the Pelvic Floor (among other things)

I don’t usually post the tapes for the Monday workshops, but this was a special request. Go soft. Be gentle.

The ‘wave’ I refer to is peristaltic motion (food moving from mouth to anus….) while the ‘tide’ is the breath.

Can you see the relationship of the diaphragm and the pelvic floor as almost like a clap? Try bringing them together and make a big sound. The pelvis is like a bowl and comes up, the diaphragm is like a bell and comes down.

  • April 19th, 2025 Use Your Upper Thoracic (Butterfly Roll)

From a very windy place in SE New Mexico, we did a side-bending lesson.

Here’s an animation about how you might approach this lesson when you go for a repeat.

  • April 12th, 2025 Mia & Gabby’s Side-Bending

From a very windy place in SE New Mexico, we did a side-bending lesson.

Here’s an animation about how you might approach this lesson when you go for a repeat.

  • April 5th, 2025 Shifting Foot-to-Foot Part 3

April 5th we did Shifting Foot-to-foot Part 3, using Denny’s dance video as our focal point. So that means: attention to back-of-heels, balance and signaling (to yourself or others) with your eyes. The latter is also excellent for Improv! Just sayin’. Denny’s dance video is in the resources under skeletalness, and I’m going to write something about Dave’s question and the transition from skeletal-here to skeletal-there. … in a little.

  • March 31st, 2025 Rotation of the Arms and Wrists

    I taped this with Mary and Rosemary and am posting it instead of the Saturday lesson (which was about the hyoid and tongue.)

At the end of the class, Mary pointed out that one of the lovely things about this lesson is that it has absolutely nothing to do with the neck. Nothing. She didn’t invoke her neck in the half hour, but she used her shoulders and thoracic spine and arms and wrists and shoulder blades and clavicles and ribs—oh yeah, and costovertebral joints!—a lot. The whole class was one beautiful differentiation of the arms/shoulders and neck. Thanks for the insight, Mary!

  • March 22nd, 2025 Shifting foot-to-foot part 2

  • You Design Some Variations

    • At the end of the tape, I address what you might do with the inhale. I suggest that you let your Lower Dan Tien (what feels like a place of power, but don’t worry about all the folderol of the exact place and all that—you don’t need to have climbed to the guru on the mount to do this—just pick a place that feels powerful to you kind of around your belly maybe, or make something up. The important thing is that as you inhale, let that power spot intensify and pleasurably, slightly sink, each time a little. Let it happily densify. But maybe there is something else you would like to do with the inhale? Try it!

    • Realize that this lesson is meant to expose your imbalance! Not to have you feel insecure, but to realize how moving fast can help you disguise your bobbles and glitches from yourself. And wouldn’t it be cool to ease some of those bobbles and glitches? So try this one in a welcoming way ‘Oh, look at this! I have disguised this bobble for so long and so well, but now I have the chance to give it some attention. Some TLC.’ Do each move slow (to find the bobble) and quick, quick, quick to see how you disguise it from yourself. Then quick and slow, such that you have an opportunity to admire how you compensate for yourself—and maybe even have a little of the formerly-masked-bobble be easier and smoother. Not ‘fixing.’ Just noticing. And even admiring.

April 5th we’ll do Shifting Foot-to-foot Part 3, using Denny’s dance video as our focal point. So that means: attention to back-of-heels, balance and signaling (to yourself or others) with your eyes. The latter is also excellent for Improv! Just sayin’.

  • March 15th, 2025

  • Shifting foot-to-foot part 1

    Need to edit out the first gabby part of this tape….

  • March 1st, 2025 (Breathing on the Belly)

  • February 27th, 2025 (Diaphragm & Psoas)

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