A steady, undistressed, persistent practice is the best way. Do not force the practice but be steady. You will notice the changes and the desire for more. Let that daily practice grow into a discipline of knowledge and understanding.
Today, I’m traveling and hopeful that the conditions allow me to sustain. I know my own practice can be made anywhere, but my concern is for the technology. I’m making a silent retreat to a remote location in the western Ozarks. Will the network function here?
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.