Ways to make a yogic approach to the body more accessible to our class
- Muscular effects of "Work Mode" posture
- How do you sit when you are typing or driving?
- Upper trapezius muscles tighten
- Relates to throat chakra
- Chest caves in
- Relates to heart chakra
- Upper back muscles weaken
- Back of heart chakra
- Core disengages and weaken
- Solar plexus chakra
- Hip flexor tighten AND weaken
- Sacral chakra
- Idea is that when your body mimics this posture by carrying the patterns in your body (samskara) into your speech, your mental/emotional state will also mimic the patterns of stress, burden, responsibility, etc.
- This mimics early evolutionary survival mode posture!
- Plexus System - Parallels to chakras
- Plexus - bundle of nerves; parallel to energy center
- Example -Solar Plexus/Celiac Plexus - contains the celiac ganglia
- Part of the sympathetic division of the autonomic nervous system ( heart rate, digestion, respiratory rate, salivation, perspiration, pupillary dilation, micturition (urination), sexual arousal, breathing and swallowing)
- Exercises
- Shoulder/neck opening exercise
- Standing rooting exercise
Body Language Analysis Assignment
- Watch 30 sec - 1 minute of one of your speeches on Video Manager ON MUTE
- Observe any distractions and successes in body language
- Connect the areas of the body (chakras, plexuses, overall postural cues) with an emotional/mental narrative/explanation/account - 1 to 2 paragraphs on the blog
- Create top 3 goals for body postural improvement in speech - write these at the bottom of your print out for today
- Share your thesis
- Help your group members create an introduction around the thesis
- Authenticity
- Balance of Pathos/Logos
- Attention Getters
- Share your vocal and body postural goals before delivering your introduction to your group members
- Group members will then evaluate a.) success in achieving these goals and b.) propose potential counterarguments; speakers will compare those counter arguments with the ones they have prepared - note if any unexpected perspectives arose (and be sure to account for these in crafting your speech!)
- Refine and repeat as many times as necessary
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I shuffle my feet around all over the place. I don't look up very much. My body is hunched over my note cards, which I hold with the velociraptor-like hands. I look up all the time. My hands and arms shake really bad.
ReplyDeleteAll put together, I look very nervous. That makes sense, because I was very nervous. That connects to my fear chakra, and my lack of openness or fear of sharing what I believe. That comes from the hunched posture and looking up at the ceiling or down at my notes and nowhere in between. I also seem to be breathing really fast. That is either due to fear leading to excess adrenaline or my allergies not letting me breathe through my nose.