Everyday we have our habits. Our good habits shape our lives with functional routine. To make new good habits, not an easy task. Let’s observe what it means to shift old patterns. We begin with self-observation.
Self-examination is called Svadhyaya.
I hope the first fifteen minutes of this regular wake up session offers the steadiness of routine and good habit, plus in our second fifteen minutes enough variety to make it interesting.
We begin every day with breath, three planes of movement, lymphatics, joints, WiseGuys. See you soon.
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.