Introduction

Welcome!

These Practices are meant to INSPIRE YOU. To connect you to your body, nature, and the beauty within and around you. Rather than approaching them as yet another chore or obligation, you can take them as an invitation to return to your natural flow.

To be clear, these practices are meant as explorations, not prescriptions. By doing them, you will find out about yourself. Many of them are purposely designed to give you access to your inner knowings and feelings. Instead of telling you how you will feel when you are doing them, I would love you to investigate them, and explore, as you practice, how you are really feeling and what habits and contemplations bubble up.

For instance, you might expect that a movement practice will leave you feeling joyful and happy, but maybe when you move your body other kinds of feelings show up too. Maybe you can feel resistance to moving, or a block in taking the time for yourself. Perhaps you feel awkward in your body today, or maybe doing unstructured movement releases pent-up energies and emotions.

By engaging in these simple practices, you get to feel what is present for YOU, instead of layering the expectation of a possible outcome over the experience.

Self-enquiry is precisely the point of your home practice play. If you have the time after each practice, I highly encourage that you take a moment to journal your experiences. Or write a poem, or draw a picture, in order to metabolise more flavours of the rich feast that is you.

These classes can be done in any order, and can be revisited over and over.

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