Stable Hands Therapeutic Massage

05/30/2026

Amazing how breathing affects our posture!

If your tongue sits low in your mouth, it changes the way your face develops and how your body holds itself.

A low tongue posture leads to a narrower palate, a weaker jawline, and a forward head position.

This doesn’t just affect facial structure it alters breathing, muscle tension, and even spinal alignment.

Your tongue is meant to rest against the roof of your mouth, applying gentle pressure to keep your palate wide and your airway open.

When this doesn’t happen, your body compensates.

Your head shifts forward, your muscles work harder to keep you upright, and your posture suffers over time.

Mewing alone for a few minutes a day isn’t enough to correct years of improper tongue posture.

Real change comes from retraining your tongue’s resting position and swallowing mechanics.

The way your tongue interacts with your palate influences everything from jaw development to how your body moves and stabilizes itself.

By addressing tongue posture properly, you’re not just improving aesthetics, you’re optimizing your breathing, reducing tension, and supporting better posture from the inside out.

In addition to this, a Functional Activator is a great tool that can be used to improve posture through tongue positioning 👉 https://posturepro.co/products/functional-activator?ch=fb


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05/25/2026

Remembering all who gave all for us.

05/09/2026

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03/25/2026

If your feet NEED shoes, you NEED to be rehabbing and training them. Strong feet can be trained. 😃

03/13/2026

It’s not spring yet but don’t let that stop you from booking your therapeutic massage, today!

02/12/2026

02/12/2026

Scars don't only affect lymph drainage, but also motor control! No matter how old the scar, it can be causing dysfunction! This is a great way to treat scars on your own body. For further assessment, and to see if your scars are having an impact on your movement or pain level, schedule and appointment Now! https://www.stablehandsmassage.com/services

01/04/2026

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01/04/2026

To all of my riders. This is how subtly our bodies can affect our horse while riding or driving. Crazy connections!!

2026, The Year of the Horse!

Original post by: Ann Montgomery-The Mindful Rider
March 5, 2022


“A number of years ago I had an interesting lesson with a student. The rider was struggling with getting a constant contact with her horse. After watch both of them move around the arena for a while and seeing the mare, chomp, and fiddle with her tongue and bit I asked the rider “where is your tongue sitting in your mouth? To this the rider stopped the horse and said ” how the hell did you know that” so it turns out that this rider has a gap in-between one of her upper molars and she has a habit of twisting her tongue to place the tongue in the gap.
When I asked her to place her tongue softly onto the top of her mouth the horse became quite in its contact and as the lesson went on the horse began to move freer in the shoulders, the rider’s tonal quality of her arms into her hand and fingers became a soft tone.

So why is this so, I asked myself, and did some research.

Why would the riders tongue affect the horses tongue so much?

Well from what I have researched the hyoid bone is part of the tongue movement apparatuses as the omohyoid muscle origin site at the superior border of the scapula and can vary in location and in size, and at times the muscle also originates from the superior transverse scapular ligament. The attachment of the central tendon can be only to the clavicle or to the clavicle and the first rib.

Wow I thought so when her tongue curls up a whole tension goes from her tongue down to her shoulder which must create a tension down her whole arm to her hand. This in turn puts a tension onto the rein and bit which travels onto the horse’s tongue, so guess what this also affects the horses hyoid bone and his omohyoid muscle into the shoulder causing the tight steps and fussy mouth. It’s a circle of tension.”

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01/02/2026

If you don’t have a New Year’s Resolution, or it’s simply to FEEL better, book your next massage with Stable Hands Therapeutic Massage. We don’t just promote relaxation with spa-like treatment, we tend to the PROBLEM that’s causing the pain, stiffness, overactive nerves, inflexibility, and more.
Start your year off with HEALING. We’re waiting to see you!