maybe it’s ridiculous to go live every morning and to repeat the same basic practices, but the discipline of the habit and the fact that it is live — from theses two facts arise the benefit.
come stand, and wake your body.
1. standing: 3 planes of movement, lymphatic clearing, joints
2. floor work? actually, we spend extra time in standing practice. we observe the balance, alignment, strength, breath. altogether whole we call shtira. with shtira we can enter any posture. we set pur intention, sankalpa. with breath and attention, we carry the wholeness into the movement and posture. that quality of ease is called sukha. the limit of the pose we call pain, ha, dukha. the dukha is an honest teacher. it directs us back to shtira.
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.