Check yourself. To observe the relation between limb and limb, between feet and head, in gravity, with stillness and movement — this they call Proprioception. It is an internal mechanical sense of how things work. More than the mechanical sense of internal awakening, the body holds vast amounts of information, including all of your lived human experience. Pratyahara is this. Pratyahara is the term used to designate the senses turned inward. This act reveals all the fluctuations, all the waves, all the energy present in your experience.
We begin with breath in three planes of functional movement. We add lymphatic clearing and joint mobility. Every day.
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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.