[azapa]

I am desperate to learn and think i am getting there. I can sense the following:

I tighten the upper part of the back of throat, pulling it in and up, a little like the tight part of a yawn, and a sensation of "coolness" happens in my upper jaw as though a cooling of the inner part of my ear. As i relax this tightness (slowly) the sensation remains until finally I feel something "close".

I don't hear the cracking and popping of a forced EQ, and I assume i should not because BTV is about opening rather that pressurizing? Correct please if wrong?

I have tried in water, but very little happens, because I don't maintain, or go slow enough.

Questions when doing dry BTV:

- what do you hear or feel?
- look at yourself in the mirror, do you see anything change, adams apple, thoat, jaw?
- what was the "turning point" for you learning this, or could you always simply do it?
- in the water, is if sufficient to simply hold this muscle postion and let the mouth equalize the inner ear via the open tubes, or are you doing some movement to make that happen?
- what if any are the depths or conditions that BTV starts to fail?

I have downloaded and read all the tutorials BTW.

Thanks so much