Look around as you go about your day and you will see people with faces that belie the challenges they face. As I speak to people who reveal stories beneath the surface, I hear of adversities, pain, loss, and the daily battles each of these individuals face. They give me inspiration. I hope to give tools. These practices are tools for those body, the emotions, the mind, and sometimes the soul.
In our morning wake up practices, we we open the do to greater practices.
Let’s make three planes of functional movement of the spine. Let’s clear lympahtic chanel’s and renew join range. All guided by breath.
Let’s go.
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.