If you are able to maintain a daily practice over an extended period of time, your body establishes a ground of experience which, even if you miss a day or two, or longer, the ground remains. You may feel some extra resistance or stiffness or hesitation to return, but you have confidence to make the simple practice. To return to practices after a time away becomes natural. You do not force. You listen to the body and the mind’s commentary. Release the commentary and listen to the body as you breathe and move.
Find breath. rediscover your standing wholeness, your alignments, balance, strength. Set your intention. Guided by breath, move. Carry your wholeness into an effortless effort. Do not push into pain but discover its edges.
Let’s go. Basic practice of three planes, lymphatics, joints. 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.