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Myo Moves - Myofunctional Therapy 🫶🏼 Empowering patients to find healing through breathing, palatal expansion, tongue function & sleep.
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Things you thought everyone did… until you realized there might be a reason. 👀Waking up with a dry mouth. Chewing on one...
10/16/2026

Things you thought everyone did… until you realized there might be a reason. 👀

Waking up with a dry mouth. Chewing on one side. Food lingering in your cheeks. A tongue that rests against your teeth. Lips that never quite feel comfortable together.

These habits can become so familiar that we stop noticing them.

But the way your tongue rests, how you chew and swallow, and whether you can comfortably maintain lip closure can offer clues about your oral function and breathing patterns.

The first step is understanding the WHY.

At Myo Moves, we look at the bigger picture before jumping into exercises. Your symptoms, habits, history, and function all help guide the next steps. Comment CONSULT to get started!

10/16/2026

🌟 Join us this Thursday, October 15 at 8 PM ET for an insightful Beauty of Breathing Webinar with Dr. Maria Sokolina! 🌿✨

📣 Presenting Dr. Maria Sokolina — Founder and CEO of Harmony Dental Arts, Dr. Sokolina is dedicated to promoting healthy sleep and better breathing through innovative, patient-centered care. Originally from Russia, she earned her dental degree from medical school before receiving her DDS from New York University College of Dentistry.

With expertise spanning implants, cosmetic dentistry, full mouth rehabilitation, and orthodontics, Dr. Sokolina has also developed a deep focus on Dental Sleep Medicine, specializing in innovative approaches to sleep apnea through dental appliances and myofunctional therapy. 💤✨

Dr. Sokolina is also the author of Breathless, a medical mystery that brings attention to the often-overlooked epidemic of sleep-disordered breathing. A sought-after speaker and educator, she has served on the boards of the American Academy of Dental Sleep Medicine and TEDx, and her expertise has been featured in Forbes, AARP, Sleep Review, and other publications.

Join us as Dr. Sokolina explores PALM and its precision medicine approach to airway therapy, offering valuable insights into personalized strategies for improving airway health and patient outcomes. 💙

🔗 Members, sign up at https://www.airwaycircle.com/ for access to this and other exciting webinars and podcasts.

10/15/2026

Just because a pattern feels familiar does not mean it is effortless for your body.

When your lips have to work to stay closed, your tongue rests low against your bottom teeth, or you default to breathing through your mouth, your body is quietly compensating.

These small daily habits are clues about how your airway, craniofacial structure, and muscles are working together.

Where is your tongue resting right now? Drop a comment if you noticed it was sitting low behind your bottom teeth.

Just 3 sessions into myofunctional therapy and we are already seeing so many positive changes:• Lips closing naturally w...
10/14/2026

Just 3 sessions into myofunctional therapy and we are already seeing so many positive changes:
• Lips closing naturally without straining his chin
• Better tongue mobility and resting up where it belongs
• A softer, more balanced expression across his face
• Reduced appearance of dark circles under his eyes
• Improved head and neck posture (swipe to see his side profile!)
• Early signs of deeper sleep, better recovery, and daytime energy

When a child starts breathing comfortably through their nose and their tongue rests on the roof of the mouth, their facial muscles don’t have to work in overdrive all day. You can literally see the tension melt away.

This is what myofunctional therapy is all about. It is not just exercises, it is supporting healthy breathing, growth, and restful sleep from the inside out.

We are so proud of his hard work, and this is truly just the beginning for him.

If you have been noticing mouth breathing, restless sleep, or facial tension in your own child, comment CONSULT and we will help you figure out the right next step.

How many times have you been told to just “manage” the symptom?A night guard for the grinding.A second round of braces f...
10/12/2026

How many times have you been told to just “manage” the symptom?

A night guard for the grinding.
A second round of braces for shifting teeth.
Another cup of coffee for the exhaustion you cannot seem to sleep off.
Massage after massage for tight jaw and neck muscles.

When you spend your adult life treating each issue in isolation, it is easy to assume your body is just difficult. But these are rarely isolated problems. They are compensations.

When an airway restriction or low tongue posture goes unaddressed in childhood, your body builds workarounds to survive. The jaw develops narrow, the tongue drops into the airway, and your nervous system stays on high alert every night just trying to keep oxygen flowing.

Your adult bones may be set, but muscle function and neuromuscular habits can be retrained at any age. When you restore proper tongue posture, nasal breathing, and functional swallowing, you finally take the constant physical strain off your airway and nervous system.

You do not have to just live with the background noise of poor function.

💬 Comment CONSULT to learn more about our comprehensive Clinical Evaluation at Myo Moves and take the first step toward understanding what is driving your pattern.

10/10/2026

You can call me Renata, you can call me your myofunctional therapist, orrrr… you can call me when you’re tired of snoring, mouth breathing, or waking up exhausted!

At Myo Moves, we look at the bigger picture, connect the dots, and help you understand your next steps.

Because I don’t just want to help you address the symptoms. I want to help you figure out **WHY.** 👅👃

✨ Ready to get some clarity? Book your Clinical Evaluation by commenting CONSULT!

10/08/2026

Your tongue isn’t the problem. It’s the victim!

The real issue? A jaw that was never expanded to give the tongue the space it needs.

When the structure is too small, the tongue has nowhere to go. So it sits low, it adapts, it compensates. And when the tongue can’t do its job, the cheeks take over. That’s when the pressure system breaks down and the teeth start shifting again.

This is why relapse happens after orthodontics.
Not because you’re doing something wrong. Not because your tongue is “too big.” But because the root cause, the skeletal structure, was never addressed.

Straightening teeth into a jaw that’s still too small is never going to be stable long-term. The tongue, the cheeks, the swallow pattern... they’re all connected. When one part of the system is off, everything else has to compensate.

This is exactly what myofunctional therapy works to correct, retraining the whole pressure system, not just one piece of it.

Comment CONSULT to start the evaluation process to understand what’s really driving your symptoms.

What does tongue-tie healing actually look like? 👅This patient’s journey is a great example of why the story doesn’t alw...
10/07/2026

What does tongue-tie healing actually look like? 👅

This patient’s journey is a great example of why the story doesn’t always start with an obvious tongue-tie.

She’s hypermobile and had excellent range of motion. At first glance, you might think, “She doesn’t need a release.”
But when we looked beyond range of motion into stability, control, and suction, we saw a different picture.

She had a beautiful frenectomy performed by Dr. Jafari at Integrative Family Dentistry (Dr. Samira Jafari | Integrative Family Dentistry), and from there, it became a team effort. She followed his post-op protocol along with her Myo Moves myofunctional therapy instructions, including serrapeptase during weeks 2 to 4.

This carousel gives you a look at the first 30 days. The tissue changes, the surgical site evolves, and the tongue gradually learns how to function in its new range...
And then we look at function!

Before the release
Maximum Interincisal Distance: 50 mm
Maximum Opening with Tongue on the Spot: 28 mm
Maximum Opening with Suction: 21 mm

8 weeks post-op
Maximum Interincisal Distance: 48 mm
Maximum Opening with Tongue on the Spot: 38 mm
Maximum Opening with Suction: 28 mm

Her overall maximum opening remained relatively similar. Look instead at what happened with tongue-to-spot and suction. That’s the part of this case I love!

The goal was never simply to make an already-mobile tongue move farther. It was to create the opportunity for better function, then give the tongue the training and support it needed to use that freedom.

A beautiful release, thoughtful post-op care, and myofunctional therapy add up to a very different story than “just cut the tie.” 🩵

What happens after the release matters just as much as the release itself! Have questions about the frenectomy process or what comes after? Comment CONSULT.

10/06/2026

� Join us this Tuesday, October 6 at 12 PM ET for an insightful Beauty of Breathing Podcast with Dr. Meg Mills! ��

� Presenting Dr. Meg Mills — a Doctor of Clinical Pharmacy and Certified Functional Medicine Practitioner with over 20 years of experience in whole-body, root-cause health. As the Founder of the Women’s Functional Health Institute, Dr. Meg specializes in nervous system regulation, hormonal balance, digestive health, and the powerful connection between thought patterns and biological healing.

Through her proprietary C.A.S.C.A.D.E. Method™ and Replace Your Thoughts Method, Dr. Meg helps uncover how the nervous system, thoughts, and physiology work together—and how stress can influence the body in ways we may not even realize. Her unique approach bridges mindset and functional medicine to address underlying causes and support lasting vitality. �

Join us as Dr. Meg explores how a single stressful thought can quickly shift the body into survival mode and impact digestion, offering a fascinating look at the connection between the mind, nervous system, and gut.

ďż˝ Members, sign up at https://www.airwaycircle.com/ for access to this and other exciting podcasts and webinars.

10/06/2026

Doing your exercises every day and still not seeing the progress you expected? It’s not always about effort.

Myofunctional therapy retrains the muscles, but muscles can’t out-work anatomy or inflammation.

If one of these is in the picture, your tongue and airway are working against a roadblock no amount of reps can fix on their own:
→ Nasal obstruction (deviated septum, chronic congestion) makes nasal breathing physically harder to sustain, even with perfect tongue posture
→ Not enough room to move, whether that’s insufficient oral space for the tongue to rest properly, or structural restrictions like jaw position, palate shape, or tongue-tie limiting the range of motion we’re training
→ Enlarged tonsils or adenoids can block the airway and force mouth breathing regardless of muscle strength
→ Untreated allergies keep the nasal passage inflamed and congested, undoing nasal breathing gains overnight
→ Poor sleep disrupts the nervous system regulation your muscles need to build new automatic patterns

This is exactly why we don’t treat the tongue in isolation. If therapy feels harder than it should be, it might be time to look at the other pillars, airway and structure, not just push harder on exercises.

Comment CONSULT and we’ll help you figure out what’s actually in the way!

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