How long are your toes? Much like the hand, we often map our toes based on how they look covered with skin. Looking at the image below, you’ll see the outline of the skin in relation to the joints of the big toe. Reach down to your big toe and find where it bends from. Find the first joint and then find the second. As you bend and manipulate the toe from the second joint, notice how long it is. It’s often longer and has more movement than we allow it to have.

Using the image below, repeat this process with the other toes, noting they have one more joint than the big toe does. Pay particular attention to the third joint of these toes, where they bend from in relation to the skin webbing. Next, as you wiggle, move and manipulate your little toe, compare how long it is to how long you thought your big toe was. Often, clients will report experiencing all their toes as much longer and the whole of the foot as more open and moveable.

I hope you were able to transfer the process of mapping your fingers to mapping your toes. It’s a simple but powerful exercise. We may think we know how our toes and fingers move, but taking some time to investigate and scrutinize them can help create differentiation and springiness, bringing attention to dark areas we didn’t know needed light.

Now that we’ve mapped ourselves from fingers to toes, let’s map the head. We’ll start with the appendage known as the jaw.