Six days a week we jumpstart the system by waking three planes of functional movement in the spine, moving major joints with breath. The practices here are about consistent daily function. The first fifteen minutes are about a steady committed discipline, and then deeper practice can happen. The yoga asanas are tools and the yoga principles are a map. We observe the foundation of breath. We observe the vessel of the body. We activate a unity of our attention, breath, body. We yoke these together.
What is needed for hand balances? How do they build? How do we enter and exit? Where is shtira?
Beginning again means asking familiar questions and looking for the answers in the posture, observing what doesn’t work, and what does. Learning twice, and twice again in Beginners Mind.
I recorded this last night because I must be on the road during our usual time. Here we observe three planes of functional spinal movement with breath. I invite you to recall warm-ups of this past week and to practice from whatever you can recall. If you cannot recall, then reboot yr favorite livestream recording and use that.
This week marks the start of a new endeavor at the SAMURAI INTI Martial Arts Studio in Frisco. I’ll be teaching i a group class there at Sendai Sebastian Mejias ‘ dojo on Monday and Wednesday mornings.