We roll out the mat and we find our breath as we stand. We open to the day.
We open, we breathe, we move.
Observe breath in three planes of functional movement. Observe breath as you pat the channels of your lymphatic system. Observe breath as you move your joints.
Wake up the vesssel of your life to its natural and full attention in greater presence.
That’s the starting place and the destination. As we go, we might wish to make some changes and that means both self-examination and a commitment to fresh habit. Not comfortable! Change. Growth.
Let’s go.
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.