Our warm up practices of three planes and lymphatics benefit the muscles and joints, but we are working deeply with neuro-muscular patterns and alignments, with metabolic activation, with cranial nerve conductivity and resistance.
The principles of Shtira, Sankalpa, Sukha, Dukha guide us. See last week for more detail.
And, this week I let’s observe the function of Drishti. This is about the eyes. Yes, as regards sight, as regards single focus and concentration, and as regards vagus nerve activation and health.
Lymphatics, joints, neural pathways! All that in 16 minutes. . . .
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.