Warm up your day knowing you are exactly where you should be. You cannot chase any faster and you must not allow yourself to “get beside yourself” with emotion. You are whole and sufficient. You can find stability, alignment, balance, strength and breath in any position. This wholeness we call SHTIRA. You are exactly where you should be. You can’t be more than what you are. To be where you are allows you to fully be yourself. And we humans can change. But we must begin from a stillness and its wholeness. Shtira.

From this wholeness we sent our intention. We call this SANKALPA. In sankalpa we de-cide. We cut away everything else. We fix attention on one thing. Slow down. On what can you count on as a worthy subject for your fixed attention? Your breath. Decide to focus on your breathing cycle. Subtle aspects arise within every breathed posture and transition.

Move. Carry shtira into posture with your breath. To perform this act of movement and attention we call SUKHA, an ease, a grace, the exact amount of energy for the task, an effortless effort.

With repetition time and ego, you discover pain, limitation, resistance which we call DUKHA.

Observe any pain as an honest teacher. Observe breath as a teacher.

Today we make an open 30 minute session with WISEGUYS in three planes of effortless effort, lymphatics, plus work for lumbar spine strength, stability, balance, pain liberation. This likely will involve floor work in supine bound angle pose. We will slow down.

To slow down is sometimes necessary to allow for a lively and quick pace! To observe the “flavor of practice” is to observe the natural rhythms that arise. Observe harmonies and the beautiful where it may arise in your day.