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JawSpace
By Caroline Feig, DPT, GCFP; Margi Douglas MFA, Joe Miller GCFP, MAHealth & Fitness
JawSpace episodes
- Discovering the lips through taste: Margi Part 2
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.
5 min - Discovering the lips through touch: Margi part 1
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!
6 min - Opening and Closing the lips with pressure changes: Joe
Joe helps you to learn about your lips in the way that an infant learns to produce speech- with babbling and experimentation.
8 min - Opening and closing the lips with ease: Caroline
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.
5 min - Integrating the Shoulders with small movements: Joe
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.
8 min - The Shoulders in Relationship to the Spine: Margi part 2
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."
6 min - The Shoulders in relationship to the Spine: Margi part 1
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."
9 min - Breathing into Shoulders while lying on belly: Margi
Imagine yourself a Sea Turtle in this playful relationship to breath and floating
6 min - Breathing into Shoulders while lying on your back: CarolineThe 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.com6 min
- Discovering the Basic Movements of the Jaw: Caroline part 4Discover the cardinal planes of the jaw. Keep making the movements easier and they will occur more naturally. This lesson will help you learn to move your jaw to the left with ease.5 min
About JawSpace
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This is a podcast designed to help you learn to stop grinding and clenching your teeth. The episodes will help you unlock habits of tension that contribute to TMJ.