Lorin Kiely's Posts - Architects of a New Dawn2024-03-28T12:29:44ZLorin Kielyhttps://architectsofanewdawn.ning.com/profile/LorinKielyhttps://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/2980535778?profile=RESIZE_48X48&width=48&height=48&crop=1%3A1https://architectsofanewdawn.ning.com/profiles/blog/feed?user=1dmghys5w9vym&xn_auth=noAn exercise for the TMJtag:architectsofanewdawn.ning.com,2009-10-31:2227378:BlogPost:1356362009-10-31T18:33:44.000ZLorin Kielyhttps://architectsofanewdawn.ning.com/profile/LorinKiely
The JAW<br />
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These exercises are performed sitting<br />
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Place the soft pads of the middle fingers vertically on the sides of the head right in front of the ears, and the index fingers just behind the ears. Slowly open and close the mouth while paying attention to the changing shape of the joint of the jaw underneath the middle finger tips. Do not apply any pressure. Perform the movements a few times very slowly with the eyes closed. Allow awareness to circulate inside the cavity of the TMJ, while…
The JAW<br />
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These exercises are performed sitting<br />
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Place the soft pads of the middle fingers vertically on the sides of the head right in front of the ears, and the index fingers just behind the ears. Slowly open and close the mouth while paying attention to the changing shape of the joint of the jaw underneath the middle finger tips. Do not apply any pressure. Perform the movements a few times very slowly with the eyes closed. Allow awareness to circulate inside the cavity of the TMJ, while bathing in the sensations occurring around the slow movements of the jaw, and the fingertips. Now you have identified the gateway to a most sublime evolutionary hotspot. In a very early phase of our embryonic development, the primitive gill arches appear from the earlier evolution, then transform into the anatomical structures of the jaw, inner ear and the five cranial nerves of the social nervous system.<br />
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Place the middle fingers perpendicular to the sides of the head, thumbs pointing up and the fingertips at the center of the joint of the jaw. Try this with your eyes closed. Relax and focus awareness on the point of contact between the fingertip and the joint of the jaw. Do not exert any pressure with the fingertips.<br />
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Very slowly begin to open the mouth. As the joint opens, the fingertips will gently float into the opening of the joint. It is very subtle, like a snowflake dissolving on the surface of a body of water.<br />
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As you slowly close the mouth and jaw, at around the half-way point, the anatomical structures of the jaw bones will begin to exert pressure on the fingertips. As you continue to close, the fingertips will be pushed back out to the surface of the (closed) joint. Repeat the process three times, then rest.<br />
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As the fingertip gently floats into the open joint, it makes subtle contact with the cranial nerve ending inside the TMJ. This contact introduces new information into the nerve and the. neuropeptides<br />
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Lie still afterward and absorb the fruits of the exercise, simply by being aware of its effects.Top-Down Yoga exercisetag:architectsofanewdawn.ning.com,2009-10-31:2227378:BlogPost:1355462009-10-31T06:00:00.000ZLorin Kielyhttps://architectsofanewdawn.ning.com/profile/LorinKiely
Here is an anatomical drawing of the muscles of the eyes;<br />
http://media-2.web.britannica.com/eb-media/47/63347-004-610F94B5.gif<br />
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Take a bit of time to absorb each instructions before incorporating the next.<br />
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Lying down, find a comfortable position in which you can completely let go, into stillness. Use as many pillows as you wish. Begin by releasing all nerve and muscle force of the jaw, down and very slightly back, and turning the tip of the tongue up toward the palate. Breathe lightly through…
Here is an anatomical drawing of the muscles of the eyes;<br />
http://media-2.web.britannica.com/eb-media/47/63347-004-610F94B5.gif<br />
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Take a bit of time to absorb each instructions before incorporating the next.<br />
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Lying down, find a comfortable position in which you can completely let go, into stillness. Use as many pillows as you wish. Begin by releasing all nerve and muscle force of the jaw, down and very slightly back, and turning the tip of the tongue up toward the palate. Breathe lightly through the mouth, meaning without undue effort, and quietly. Connect breathing and awareness at the navel, along the central channel. Take a few minutes to settle and focus with inner awareness, stillness, and rest,<br />
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Continuing to breathe in this way, turn your attention to the four rectus muscles of the eyes. For two minutes, while simply resting awareness in the muscles of the eyes, 'tune-in' (listen) to the rate of breathing and the beat of the heart. Sense the profound affect regulation between the connective tissue of the eyes, the heart and the lungs. Afterward, lying still, absorb what learning there is in the exercise.<br />
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Then gently and very slowly, roll your eyes up, hold them up, then slowly back to center, pause, now slowly down.... In the same manner, to the right and then left. Remember to pause for a moment in the still-point, in the center, in between the movements. Hold each position for 3 to 5 seconds. Afterward, lying still, completely relax the muscles of the eyes and eyeballs. Rest awareness within this relaxation for a few minutes.<br />
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Subtly and gently, draw the muscles of the eyes straight in, or back, a few micromotions toward the brain. As soon as you sense the shape of the muscles of the eyes changing (very subtle), stop right there, and hold them still gently, with awareness and one-pointed precision. Holding the muscles of the eyes-in, and still, with the jaw relaxed, rest awareness within the neurosomatic still-point, in the SA node of the heart, and do nothing else at all. Hold this mudra for 30 seconds or more, while breathing gently through the mouth, to the navel. Then slowly release the muscles of the eyes over a ten second period.<br />
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Lie still, resting awareness in the effect of the exercise, invite your body to be aware.Neurosomatic Adaptation and Cultural Metamorphosistag:architectsofanewdawn.ning.com,2009-10-17:2227378:BlogPost:1322312009-10-17T21:03:40.000ZLorin Kielyhttps://architectsofanewdawn.ning.com/profile/LorinKiely
Top-Down Yoga<br />
Transforming the Bodymind -<br />
Evolving the Culture<br />
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Top-Down Yoga is an easy-to-learn, revolutionary approach to subtle-body self-regulation. Perhaps the most unique system for personal and collective development available today, Top-Down Yoga integrates first-person science and somatics, with the recent new understanding of the mammalian social nervous system. This, coupled with advanced yet simple methods of self-regulation from the Tibetan tradition, creates a transformational…
Top-Down Yoga<br />
Transforming the Bodymind -<br />
Evolving the Culture<br />
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Top-Down Yoga is an easy-to-learn, revolutionary approach to subtle-body self-regulation. Perhaps the most unique system for personal and collective development available today, Top-Down Yoga integrates first-person science and somatics, with the recent new understanding of the mammalian social nervous system. This, coupled with advanced yet simple methods of self-regulation from the Tibetan tradition, creates a transformational experience.<br />
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The practice initiates a cascade of unwinding within the autonomic nervous systems, and effectively unifies the neurosomatic with the spiritual, forever changing the way we practically experience ourselves and others. A practical result is that we end up creating new social behaviors, which themselves are regulated by neurological patterns. Change the pattern, change the result; our collective evolution now unfolds within a luminous ‘body’ of adaptive wisdom.<br />
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As Top-Down-Yoga addresses and heals the most fundamental elements of our experiential being and relationship-body, not on a conceptual but a truly physical level, it contains within it a rare power to jump-start profound and lasting change in your life, and in the world we live in. There has never been a better time.<br />
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Because each person already embodies the innate evolutionary biotechnology which the system harnesses, no prior yogic or scientific background is needed to spawn optimal results! Wherever you are in your path, the practice of Top-Down Yoga is a proven method to increase your wisdom awareness, inner balance, and loving-kindness.<br />
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By dissolving simple physiological obstacles which have only now been recognized, you will come into a new state of balance, and your heart naturally opens with full compassion. The opening of one’s heart and body is a part of a larger shift we are all now experiencing, and through the dissemination of this practice the potential of balancing an out of balanced world will increase.<br />
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ENDORSEMENTS<br />
Lorin Kiely, has developed Top Down Yoga, an exceptional form of movement exercises. Using Top Down Yoga, a surprisingly large number of people will be able to enjoy quick, effective and much needed self-regulation of their nervous system. Top Down Yoga can help people out of acute and chronic states of stress and depression.<br />
In our culture we usually think that states of stress (fight and flight) and depression (collapse) are caused primarily by psychological, biographical elements which then express themselves in physiological changes – in other words, we generally believe that the mind and emotions come first and the physiology follows.<br />
However, the opposite might well be true more often than suspected: our emotional state might be the result of our physiological state. The function of our nervous system and the balance of our hormones are in many cases the causes of our states of happiness or unhappiness. The body comes first and the psychology follows. To improve the psychology, you need to improve the body.<br />
Tensions in the neck, jaw and eyes are often the real cause of many of our negative emotional states. These tensions can put pressure on cranial nerves creating dysfunction. Top Down Yoga exercises address these tensions, restores proper function of these nerves and brings us into positive states of being - opening the possibility for us to experience states of creativity, joy and social interaction.<br />
Lorin brings together decades of devoted practice of yoga and meditation with some of the best teachers in the world with the new understanding of the autonomic nervous system, the Polyvagal Theory, as proposed by Dr. Stephen Porges.<br />
I believe that his creation of Top Down Yoga is a major breakthrough that can help you and many other people. I believe that Top down is worth learning and using when needed or on a daily basis.<br />
-- Stanley Rosenberg, http://stanleyrosenberg.com/english<br />
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"The somatic revelation provided by Lorin Kiely's Top-Down-Yoga is the grand unification practice bridging individual and social evolution that we have all been awaiting. The change our world now imminently requires will be possible only with a profound repatterning of our most basic human responses and perceptions. Top-Down Yoga is the most accessible, direct, and universal practice I have seen outside of religious contexts which can reach the profound levels such change requires."<br />
--Alden Bevingon<br />
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There never has been a more critical time to find new ways to directly intervene in and transform the roots of our collective habitual psycho-somatic patterns. Top-Down Yoga provides new and untried avenues, which go to the roots of our embodiment, for bringing about the urgently needed course corrections in human affairs. Lorin's articulation of Top-Down-Yoga represents a nascent yet powerful movement of self-regulatory capacity building and auto-augmentation of awareness in the sphere of human biology. His work needs to be supported and nurtured so that it's powerful and sweeping potentials to cultivate and harness our collective intelligence as a socially applicable field phenomena can be realized. -- Mark Comings<br />
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Top Down Yoga is the most impressive new technology of consciousness to emerge in a very long time. Like Rebirthing or Neuro-Linguistic Programming; Top Down Yoga will change the way we think of ourselves, our lives, and our nervous systems.<br />
--David Bruce Leonard, L.Ac.<br />
http://www.davidbruceleonard.com/ROL_worshipthegoddess.html<br />
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I think that Lorin has an incredible key to healing trauma. This body of work fills in the gaps of psychological, emotional and physical trauma, and bridges many schools of thought, in a scientific and practical way. I am sharing this with all my students and friends that work with trauma. This work is truly on the leading edge of personal growth and development work. Top-Down Yoga is the bridge that will take many of the body mind therapies to the next level. Thank you Lorin for your persistence.<br />
--Judith Johnson<br />
www.energeticclearingprocess.com<br />
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Top-Down Yoga is one of the most universally applicable self-regulation techniques since it can be adapted to virtually any physical circumstances. The infirm can use it therapeutically and the healthy to recalibrate the whole system. A great new form of psychophysical reintegration and social healing.<br />
--Iona Miller, CHT<br />
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What a blessing that Lorin has brought to us. I've never encountered a system so simple, so easy, and so organic that brings such amazing results. I felt the difference from the first time I did the Top-Down Yoga for just 15 minutes. This process excites me because it is a tool of deep integration. It works for those who are intentionally raising their consciousness... and I also sense great healing potential for those who have experienced brain or nervous system injury. I am in awe of the possibilities that open to us and to the world.<br />
Donna Bradley<br />
www.radiancecenter.org.<br />
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Top-Down Yoga -- so named because it involves subtle and powerful exercises "from the neck up" -- activates certain neurological pathways or what is called the "Social Engagement System." Identified by Dr. Stephen Porges as the most advanced human brain organization, the Social Engagement System makes people intelligible to each other and helps regulate the autonomic nervous system away from excessive reliance on the mechanisms of arousal and fear. Not only does this system allow us to "read" the facial expressions and other subtle cues in human communication but it acts as a gateway to the kinds of deep meditation and abilities that have long been the province of yogis and other spiritual adepts. The beauty of Top-Down Yoga is that anyone can learn to do it and anyone can benefit.<br />
Steve Bhaerman, aka Swami Beyondananda<br />
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"In these times of evolutionary change, what we need more than a new theory of evolution is a practice of evolution. Top-Down Yoga is a simple and elegant way to experience the new human heart / mind. This new "technology" is not part of any "church" or religious organization such as TM, but an effective practice for everyone. It is exactly the kind of tool we need right now to 'go sane' individually, and as a species."