Every day the body goes with us. We rinse our face, we look in the mirror and there we are. We stub a toe on the leg of a chair and there we are. We duck into the car and close the door. When do we leave the body behind?
Let’s make a practice so that the body is no obstruction, no interference to the subtle calling of soul. When the body is in pain, when the body is un-available or ill, then the body determines our condition. Let’s yoke breath and attention in the body and thereby begin to transcend the habits conditioned by body identity.
We move in three planes. We breathe. We open lymphatic channels and joints.
Last week we looked at first strength practices in legs, gut, and shoulders. We looked at first breath practices. Let’s continue and add on. . . .
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.