November 16, 2021 - EyeClarity Podcast
I want to share this piece from the neuroplasticity course I did recently. Follow along as I want the class through combining sound and movement and be sure to keep an eye out for upcoming episodes that will expand and add to these movements. Enjoy the show. If you want more, sign up for my newsletter at: www.drsamberne.com.
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sound, eyes, activate, movement, body, practice, bones, oxygenation, cranial-sacral, brain, closed, fluid, connect, continuum, called, spiral, work, making
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So this particular somatic practice involves three different parts. The first is making sound making some sounds. Number two, it’s about tracking and monitoring your breathing, and there may be some breathing practices that you might get as well. And then the third part is being able to connect with your body by touching different parts of your body while you’re making the sounds. No sound when you make a sound, and these are very specific sounds that activate different parts of your brain, your nervous system, your fluid body, your muscles, your fascia, your connective tissue, and even the fluids in your body, like your cerebral spinal fluid, your blood. And the idea of this is that by activating your body in this particular way, what it’s going to do, it’s going to open up new pathways, in your focus in your awareness, on a cellular level on an energetic level.
And it’s very particular, based on what you need. Now, what what, there isn’t one size that fits all, you know, again, in a disease-based model, you have an inflammation, so they give you a steroid, and it suppresses the immune system, but it can reduce the inflammatory response. What we’re talking about in this practice is being able to activate the medicine inside of you. And each person needs something different based on what they’re bringing to the table. Now, this work that I’m going to introduce to you has a long lineage. And it comes from the somatic practice called continuum movement. And I’m going to write it on here. Continuum movement is a healing practice that was started by a visionary named Emily Conrad, she was a friend, mentor, colleague of mine, she passed away in 2014.
And I met her in 2010, I was co-teaching a workshop at her studio in California, specifically, Santa Monica. And after the workshop, she and I really connected and she had a condition called narrow-angle glaucoma. And so I helped her with that condition, we reduced the dosage and she got some of the sights back in her left eye. And she asked if I wanted to become a continual movement teacher, so I went through her training, and I became an authorized continuum teacher back in 2014, and I bring it into the I work and the neuroplasticity work because at about the same time, I had been studying cranial sacral therapy, and in cranial sacral, for those of you that don’t know about it, cranial-sacral is an osteopathic technique that helps improve the circulation and the movement in the structures of the body, top of the head bottom of the feet, and some of the treatments in cranial-sacral can have a huge positive impact on the eyes and the brain. And so, in this particular somatic practice, I draw from Emily and her work and her teachings. And there are two sounds we’re going to do today. And one of the sounds is called
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shock, shock sound. And basically, it’s making a J Zai Zai sound. And whenever you make sound, certain sounds can really penetrate places in your body where the tissue is very compressed, which could be due to trauma could be due to stress. But the sound is one of the great ways to penetrate that compressed tissue and bring it back to life that we talked about at the beginning of the workshop, the brain is about 73% water. Now if we lose 2% of that, it can start to become dehydrated. When you put this particular sound into the head area, it actually creates more fluidity, it creates more movement in the bones that surround the eyes.
And in the brain, we have our skull with many bones that come together in terms of sutures that connect the different bones, the temporal bone, the parietal bone, the frontal bone, the occipital cortex, the cervical spine. And when we get into trauma, what happens to the movement of the bones is they get locked. And when they get locked, it reduces the circulation in the brain. So this particular sound, when you make this sound, what it does is it actually creates a movement in the bones around the skull, and it starts to activate the brain in a very positive way.
So one of the aspects of this particular practice is that you’re going to be putting this Joc sound, J Zai Zai sound into this area. And you’re going to do it sitting up. And one of the reasons why I want you to sit up in this is it’s going to activate something in the inner ear, which we call our vestibular system, which is very connected to our balance, our orientation, our brain. And so you’re going to be putting the sound into this area. And we’re going to rehearse the sound together so that you have the sound. So I think let’s do that right now. So I’m going to demonstrate the sound. And then I’d like you to try the sound where you are. And then we’ll add the touching piece. So this is just practice we’re just practicing right now. So the sound is like a buzzing sound like, you know, you’re like in a hive with Bs. And the sound is like this GZGZ J Zai, Zai,
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Gs, Gs GS.
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So you see how I’m going playing back and forth with the GI z i sound. And there’s an improvisational part to this, where you can speed it up, you can slow it down, you can spend more time on the GI side, the Z II side, you can move it around. So this is part of your musicianship part of it is making the sound and then part of it is hearing and receiving the sound. So you’re making it you’re receiving it all in the same moment. Now when you start making this sound, there’s going to be a vibration that starts to occur. That’s going to create more oxygenation and circulation. Remember how we talked about it’s important to increase the oxygenation in your brain? Well, this is going to do it and you’re doing it. So I’m going to demonstrate it
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and you’re going to do it on the exhale okay, what can everybody hear me somebody saying they’ve lost sound? Want to make sure you’ve, you’ve got the sound, it looks like we’re, we’re broadcasting just fine, but let me know. Okay, on now. Great. Thanks for the feedback. So what I’d like you to do right now you can close your eyes. And I just want you to make the GI z i sound on the exhale and do three of them. So, on the exhale you The combination J aici. And you’re going to do it three times. Okay? And do it with your eyes closed if you want to. That’s what I’m going to do I’m going to do it with you and just practice you can’t do it wrong. So here we go
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zoos
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right now pause here and just be aware of what you’re aware of. Just notice your breathing.
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Notice how your body feels and then you can open your eyes. Okay, we’re going to try it again, we’re going to do three of them this time, I’d like you to put your hands
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on your head kinda like this can be light doesn’t have to be really heavy. And I want you to close your eyes and do three J Zai Zai sounds at your speed. Once you get done with the three I’ll tell you what’s next just
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assure
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Okay, now I’d like you to put one of your hands on your forehead and the other hand in your vision center on the back of your head and I’d like you to do three of those
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you can drop your hands, keep your eyes closed, put your hands in your lap. And just notice what you feel their weight your sense, what your awareness This is called Open attention
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then you can open your eyes okay, good. So that sounds number one that you’re going to be doing. That’s going to be done sit sitting up. And then you’re going to lie down on your mat, and I’m going to have you do the second sound, which is an O sound. So the jocks work on the bones. And the o sound works in elongating the tissue, especially when you touch your body. So let’s do the o sound first. And then we’ll do a little bit of where I want you to direct the sound. Whenever you put your hands on your body, and you make a sound. It’s almost as though your hands become tuning forks. And it directs the sound into those areas that are needed. So the o sound it’s called a puffed o or a blown Oh, you keep your mouth closed. And see all I’m like I’m blowing out a candle or I’m blowing up a balloon. So I’m not letting much air out of my mouth. So I’m keeping the o sound contained in my mouth and it sounds and looks like this
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so I’m letting a little air out of my mouth, but I’m containing most of the sound in my mouth. And it’s not like oh, where I’m directing it across the room. It’s more about containing the sound We call it a puff dough. So you’re kind of puffing and let’s try it right now see if you can do a puff though Sam, let’s do three of them. Again, you can’t do it wrong, just try it
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Okay, so
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how are you doing with that? How is it any problems, any questions? So, this time, what I want you to do is I want you to take your fingertips and I want you to watch where I’m putting them around my eyes and I’m doing some spirals while I’m making the o sound.
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going the other direction so in this dive we’re going to do in a few minutes, part of it is going to be touching your eyes very lightly with the eyes closed and doing some spirals and when you make spiral movements, it creates more energy in that area you can think about a vortex or spiral of energy. It activates the fluid body and increases energy. When the movement is more linear. Back and forth. I can align there’s less energy in that more energy in the spiral moving spinning. That’s what we want to do. We want to stir our fluid body a little bit. That’s going to help the nervous system that connective tissue, have more energy flow oxygenation, those things that we need.
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