Five foundations of the whole life in health and whole being —
1. Breath
2. Movement
3. Sleep
4. Nutrition & Hydration
5. Prayer & Meditation
As I lie in bed waking from dream without an alarm clock, I practice to turn dream mind into prayer mind and gratitude. I place feet on the floor, I go to the bathroom, turn on the coffee maker, make notes here for you, unfold my mat and turn on the livestream. Living in a household of family and a dog, of vehicles and materials, of daily work and neighbors, they sometimes require intervening attention. So I’m always grateful to get started.
Let’s make three planes of functional spinal movement guided by breath. Let’s activate our lymphatic system and our joints.
Let’s go steady and smooth . . . .
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.