🌱 This is Your Spine

🌱This is Your Spine

🌱 Consider the whole length of your spine - from top to tail - as the central support channel in your torso, and as the support for your skull. 

🌱 The top of the spine is located between the ears, just behind your soft palate. Try this: draw tiny circles with your nose. Explore the micro-movements of your head-spine joint. Sing a phrase. How does the freedom and ease in this joint impact your singing?

🌱 The bottom of your spine is DIFFERENT than the base of your torso. Your spine ends at the tail bone, just above the buttocks. Your TORSO ends at the bottom of the pelvis. Try this: grab your own butt (seriously). That’s the base of your torso. Consider the distance between the sitting bones and the tail bone - experience the depth and distance within the pelvis. 

🌱 The spine unfurls from the tail, up through the centre of your torso, and reaches up to gently support the skull. Allow your head to rest on the spine. 

🌱 How does experiencing the true length of your spine, as a central axis, impact your singing?

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