The holiday momentum continues with gatherings and meals and treats and distraction. The new calendar year begins around the next corner.
The morning practices maintain the internal direction and the internal connection. What do I mean by that? Only that given the conditions of contemporary life with its contradictory voices, appeals, dictates, and programs we can find ourselves scattered in all directions, especially in this holiday season. The consistent morning practice of breath delivered in the body anchors our awareness.
Today we will deliver breath in the vessel of the body observing three planes of functional movement, the lymphatic channels, and all the joints. Beyond that we will explore a few floor postures. And, as ever — the WiseGuys offer the random commentary.
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.