The seasons turn on the wheel of the year, every season in its proper time despite our human fixation to control nature with daylight savings time, GMO food, and immersive technology in our hands and in our sky.
Every morning we maintain the fundamentals of breath and movement as a discipline through the year. By maintaining that discipline, we sustain our foundational vitality, and we have a consistent practice by which to measure our experience. Very useful to have a fixed focus as our personal landscape and body moves with the seasons.
We breathe our movement in three planes. We breathe lymphatic flow. We breathe isolated joint tensions and release. WiseGuys give us their comments.
Today, in addition to this wake up, I’m making a next step — an initial broad range practice of about 27 minutes. Today’s extra practice will include conscious strength and stretching. Join me for more.
And, in 2025 you can join my small group classes in person —
Mondays and Wednesdays 9:00 am Samurai Inti Martial Arts, Frisco, TX
Thursdays, 8:30 am Carpathia Collaborative Clinic of Functional Medicine, Dallas, TX
Saturdays, 8:30 am Concorde on the Creek, Hillcrest Plaza, suite 317, Dallas, TX
Plus, I make personal sessions Monday through Saturday with in home visits.
Final Note today: I will continue to make these morning practices daily in the holidays and into the new year. Thank you for joining in. I always welcome your comments. Pls share this link.
yrs in yoga,
J
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.
Although not a true morning wake up, the song remains the same.
Today’s practice is my first intentional movements with breath. Three planes, lymphatics, joints. That’s the way we address the experience written in our bodies like physical graffiti. Through our intentional breath and movement we recognize our state of being dazed and confused. We can move with grace through good times bad times. We awaken our bodies like houses of the holy. Not to say that our practice is a stairway to heaven, but we cannot hope to get clear and strong if we try to sneak in through the out door.
You don’t need to go down to the seaside, or over the hills and far away, or even to california. Practice wherever you are in the light.
And after practice? It’s a celebration day. Eat a Tangerine, I will listen LOUD to a British rock n roll band who made their fortune in the U.S. of A. I will boogie with Stu and my black dog. These are dancing days. Led Zep is dead, long live Led Zep....