05. Left Tongue Sense

Your tongue sensation and awareness has a big impact on your cranial bone and jaw alignment which then affects your chewing, head stabilization and posture in your neck and body. This technique focuses on sensing the left side of your tongue to provide a new movement through your teeth, jaw and head. 

This new or increased tongue sensation allows you to more easily feel stabilized in your postural system, appropriately activates your muscles and enables you to experience a new felt sense inside your body. A new way of feeling, being and expressing yourself may arise when simply sensing the left side of your tongue.

Browse the 2 following techniques to help you integrate your left tongue sense or use your testing technique to determine which is best for you right now.

  1. Opposite Tongue and Jaw 
    • Focus on your tongue going to the left with your jaw going to the right 
  2. 5-way Tongue Stretch
    • Focus on stretching your tongue to the left and up/back to the left

Perform a left tongue sense technique 2-3x/week or as often as desired. *Unless otherwise directed

  • Optionally, use your testing technique to determine your optimal frequency and duration to perform.