What’s New? What’s the Same? What’s Next?
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Resetting the Base Line
“The pandemic was a big loss. To transcend languishing, try starting with small wins, like the tiny triumph of figuring out a whodunit or the rush of playing a seven-letter word. One of the clearest paths to flow is a just-manageable difficulty: a challenge that stretches your skills and heightens your resolve.”
Transcend the languishing. Time for some small, or maybe big, wins, and the path to flow through a just-manageable difficulty. That’s this lesson, an inventory of movement through the elbows, knees, shoulders, hips and spine.
For students who have done this lesson before, it’s a moment to mark changes since January and March. To notice what has changed, what’s the same, and bring attention to what might interest you moving forward; a chance to evaluate how recent explorations have affected your sense of internal connections, your relationship to your environment, and how your sense of self has expanded, evolved. Is it easier to follow the lesson? Are you more familiar with the quality of your movement? Are you enjoying the rests? How slow can you go and still sense yourself? How many small wins can you take credit for?
For new students, this can be a just-manageable difficulty. The lesson develops from the outer edges in, beginning with tiny movement of the elbows and knees and slowly moving inward to deeper and deeper joints. Actually, this mostly supine lesson begins and ends on with a few hairs on your head (of imaginary hairs if hair isn’t available to you). Halfway through, if its comfortable, the lesson flips from back to front to explore new orientations and ball joint rotations. At every juncture, there’s a moment to pause, evaluate and get to know yourself a little better.
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Kick the languishing with a few ‘atta girls,’ a few challenges, and the joy of easy movement.
How You Might Feel After This Lesson: Completely relaxed, from the tips of your hair to your ankles; Tuned in to how each major joint is working today'; Elongated spine; Completely connected; Improvement aware; No change aware; Clued in on what might be your next focus.