Here we go. Are you breathing? Really? Not the habit of the mundane breathh through the mouth into 20 cent f your lung capacty. Can you empty your lungs entirely? Can you fill them up? No force. But full.
How can we connect breath with movement? How does the breath open and how does it close?
Let’s establish our standing breath in balance. Use breath awareness times to open, activate , and then secure your heart. Move from the heart. Find Shtira ( wholeness of breath , balance, alignment, strength) Make Sankalpa (set intention). Move with ease. Sukha. Learn from Resistance, limitation, pain. It teaches us to find Shtira.
3 planes. joints. lymphatics. Wise guys.
For those who subscribe will make some shoulder and neck work in the second 15 minutes. . .
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.