If your muscle tension is a problem,
learn to Pandiculate.
Cats pandiculate 30-40 times a day.
That’s how they clear
their stress induced tensions and
remain exquisitely supple.
Pandiculation is an extraordinary re-patterning technique, a gentle yawning-like contraction of the muscle, followed by a slow, controlled lengthening to full rest.
Pandiculation is how your system naturally resets your muscle tension balance.
1) Slow-motion yields faster change in muscle function,
2) Less effort brings more voluntary control,
3) It’s pain-free, which allows way more gain.
It’s easy, and enjoyable.
The contraction feedback clarifies your somatic spatial perception, the map your brain has of your body.
The slow relax allows you to lower muscle tonus, to lower the resting tension of your muscles.
When applied to localized and full body tension patterns,
pandiculation is truly liberating.
Start with any of these videos.
This is the perfect way to begin.
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WHAT IS Somatics? | Begin Somatics Playlist | How to Get Unstuck
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Can gentle Twisting FREE Your BREATHING? Simplest Twisting Washrag Full Version
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THE MUST KNOW: Elbows to the Sky, Somatics for Stress, Worry, and Depression
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CALM DOWN, Whoa, Nellie! Practice | Gentle relax of the long arch of the back | Somatics
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OPEN your torso, AWAKEN your Twist, FREE your breathing | Sunrise, Sunset + X of the Front Somatics
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Must Know: SEATED Somatics SEQUENCE | Seated Pandiculation Sequence | Chair Somatics
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SUPER-GENTLE Side Lying Relax for your Sore Back | Oh, The Places Your Back Pocket Can Go
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The Whoa, Nellie X, Relax the Diagonals of your Back
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The biggest mistake people make with Somatics
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See-Saw Shoulders, Standing Side Bend Breathing, Somatics Symmetry Sequence
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Side Bend practice | What if your sides were relaxed? | Basics course sequence excerpt from 2022
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Side Bend Practice Video with lots of variations
Video: Pandiculation, it’s very different than stretching