0:00 - 3:25 - Intro
- What we will be covering in this podcast
- We will be looking at aligning 3 points of focus on Your Body
- The main topic of today is Foundational to alignment and why You should be paying attention to it.
3:26 - 7:19 - Why most peoples solutions are unsustainable
- The position most people are in.
- The 1, 2, 3 steps of understanding pain or structural misalignment; (1) toughness, (2) Temprary Fix, (3) Global Connections.
- Why this is unsustainable.
- Why Your pain is less noticeable at work or if Your relationships are not healthy
- The link to the Left Hemisphere (LHEM)
7:20 - 9:48 - Why focus on the 3 Arches
- The other option is whole Body fascia has to reach its Native Configuration.
- Why do we focus on the 3 arches; self-organization.
- How the 3 arches facilitate self-organization
- Innate = Instintual, Dynamic = Change with the least amount of resistance to match the circumstances
- Edward Dangerfield Quote 1 “Breathing Rhythm has to be appropriate to My circumstances and Surrundings”
- Edward Dangerfield 2 “I need t have access to a variety of Breathing Patterns and rhythms.. to meet the challenges of Life dynamically.”
- What these quotes mean
9:49 - 13:53 - Extrapolating Innate Breathing Rhtyhm effects via the Fascia
- Position can facilitate Innate Breathing Rhythm
- Summary: External Positioning —> Innate Breathing Rhythm —> Internal Mvement —> Fascial Homeostasis
- Podcast Reference
- What happens when we facilitate Innate Breathing Rhythm
- Defining Compensation Correction, the Superficial Muscles are ding the wrong job creates Compensation, the Fascia has to correct it.
- The 3 Arches move the Fascia towards alignment.
- Niek chooses his words very closely
13:54 - 17:14 - What are the 3 Arches?
- Arch 1: Hard Palate, Arch 2: Lowest frame of Your Ribs: Arch 3: Inverse of Your Pelvic Bowl (Ischial Tuberosities to Pubic Symphysis)
- How to palpate these arches (they are all bones).
- The Bones supprt Diaphragms; all diaphragms need to come together to facilitate innate breath.
- Where the 3 Diaphrgm exists and which arches they belong to.
- Special caveat with the Pelvic Bowl.
17:15 - 21:07 - How are all of these Diaphragms designed to be positioned?
- Bowl of Water and Bowl of Air Analogy’s.
- How Your arches are designed to support each Diaphragm.
- People who have Healthy facial Structure usually have a Healthy first Arch.
- How to tell if Your Ribs Diaphragm is balanced or tilted.
- How to tell if Your Pelvic Bowl is appropriately balanced.
21:08 - 22:14 - Moving Your fascia towards Alignment
- Hard Palate —> Get You toungue to the roof of Your Mouth
- Ribs —> Align You Costal Arch and Manubrium
- Pelvic Bowl —> Align Your Sacrum ro eliminate tilt
- Lining all these up will establish a Felt Sense; Easten = Pulling, Cohen = Opening of Space
22:15 - 24:05 - The Hard Palate
- Resources Foreshadowing + Invitation to get more traction on this Podcast
- The Proper Arch maintains the Sphenoid of Your Skull.
- The Sphenoid organizes the skull and spine
- Theodore Belfor
- Dr. Mike Mew - Orthotropics - The Drivers for Healthy Facial Structure are the same drivers for supporting the Hard Palate Arch
24:06 - 25:22 - The Ribs
- Balance the Spiral Lines in Your Arms and Torso
- This maintains alignment of the Scapula
- Scapula in alignment directly impacts the Ribcage and T-Spine; this makes balancing the Rib Diaphragm a lot easier.
- Functional Patterns Coaching
- Penelope Easten’s Book
25:21 - 27:58 - The Pelvic Bowl
- Tagetting the Spiral Lines in the Leg; this stabilizes the Pelvis.
- Explanantion of how the Pelvic Bowl gets transferred.
- Why a structurally healthy Pelvis facilitates Energy Transfer from the Spine to the Legs and vice versa.
- Niek’s belief on where the majority of Human Energy comes from.
- What to do if You’ve never felt Your Breath in Your Pelvic Bowl.
27:59 - 31:02 - How Your Pelvic Bowl is upposed to move
- Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen; uncanny sense of Interoception.
- What a collapsed Pelvic Boel feels like.
- Using Your Hands as an example on how Your Pelvic Bowl should move.
- A functioning Pelvic Bowl will contribute to the Intra-abdominal pressure created by the Pelvic Bowl
31:03 - 36:48 - Why don’t I just focus on My Breath?
- Is it easier to “think” under stress or “do” under stress?
- We’re designed to “do” under stress, they are reactive actions
- Balance is matched by a Felt Sense, it’s a sense of pleasure / ease.
- Fumbling with keys Analogy
- Becasuse we orient to what feels good, it becomes easier over time without effort
- We’re removing the “fluff”of thinking.
- The on caveat is You need to Orient twards Felt Sense that communicates Self-Connection.
- The lowest entry point, pick one.
- Focussing on any one is going to impact every other zone.
- How to re-create a new structural homebase.
36:49 - - If You can’t find the Felt Sense, a comparison + Close-Out
- Sit on the Floor Practice
- Notice the differnce in Your Breath
RESOURCES
Ed Harrold with Edward Dangerfield on Life with Breath Series - Podcast
Unity Line Podcast
Ventral Vagus Podcast
Penelope Easten:- Alexander Technique: The 12 Fundamentals to Integrated Movement
Theodore Belfor - ANS & Homeoblock Podcast
Theodore Belfort - Dr. Steven Lin: Homeoblock & the ANS
