Last summer and into the fall the theme here was Shtira, Sankalpa, Sukha, and Dukha, principles of asana that guide awareness for the classical limbs of practice.
Check out some of those dates, maybe August/September. The year has its seasons and the practice adjusts through the seasons. Spring approaches and the time for cleansing, for fresh growth, and growing pains, development.
Everyday we begin with breath and the simple confidence of your steady practice: Breath, three planes, lymphatics, joints.
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.