How do you move your day? Indoors? Outside? To what tasks, activities, and demands has your body become accustomed? What rhythms and demands?
Every person no matter one’s age or health or setting grows accustomed to daily rhythms and demands of life. For some, highly regulated routines comprise their day. For others, high levels of uncertainty and change mark their time. Some sedentary, others highly dynamic, every person conditions their body and their mind.
The morning practices here have the purpose to awaken the fundamental range of practical movement with breath, so that regardless of your background or daily routine, you can access the range of physical forms which might be demanded of you.
We make three planes of practical movement with breath. We observe lymphatic lines and major joints. Let your body move with breath.
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.