Yesterday we left off by identifying bhastrika breathing practice. Bhastrika means “bellows” in Sanskrit. This practice specifically moves the breath with an even quality of inhale and exhale, nose only. It can be valuable as we hold a posture. With bhastrika we support and sustain a posture. We can find a wholeness and stillness, a sufficiency in non daily challenge. We must unlock habits of breath, and thus habits of the nervous system.
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.