3-Part Movement Series To Lower Anxiety Levels & Improve Coordination:
A Regulatory Breathing Practice To Increase Vagal Tone
Overview
The purpose of this regulatory movement practice is to provide practitioners, especially those with joint hypermobility, a tool to help reduce anxiety, promote healthy digestion, and lower systemic inflammation.
I will be sharing a series of 3 movement practices, starting with 1) Mapping (Tap, Brush, Scrub).
Tools needed for this practice
Scrubbers – Using a variety of dry scrubbers can elevate the benefits of your lymphatic detox. Since different areas of your body will vary in sensitivity, it’s best to have options.
Try dry brushes from saje.com or amazon.com to brush over your body and check out scrubbing gloves from thebodyshop.com to stimulate the more sensitive skin on your neck and face. You can also find similar exfoliating tools at your local pharmacy, market, or beauty supply store.
Demonstration
Mapping (Tap, Brush, Scrub)
Intention: To increase brain to body connection and lower the brain’s “perceived threat” by stimulating the mechanoreceptors of your fascial network. Thus creating a more defined map of your body and the sum of its parts in space.
Movement Practice: Give care to each body part as you explore your neural “mapping” with a series of stimulating movements such as tapping, massaging, and dry brushing to awaken mechanoreceptors both under the skin and within the enteric nervous system. After awakening the mechanoreceptors of each area, inhale deeply through your nasal passage directing your breath into the area of stimulation and exhale softly through the mouth as if you were fogging a mirror. As you continue “mapping” take note of feelings of tightness or restriction. Pay extra time and attention to developing awareness in these areas as well as the surrounding tissue to create a detailed neural “map” of your body as a whole.