Ok, so you have your breath, right? Can you sustain your attention in the breath cycle through each sequence of movement? That is, can you place your awareness on the breath in its four phases — the exhale, the empty pot, the inhale, the full pot, and again the exhale begins a new cycle. Can you let teh breath guide your range and the activation of your strength?
Three planes. Lymphatic clearing. Shoulder work. leg work.
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.