http://blog.dancemeditation.org/2008/05/15/may-day-ly-practice-9/ not an oxymoron Mon, 08 Sep 2008 14:09:16 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.3 http://blog.dancemeditation.org/2008/05/15/may-day-ly-practice-9/#comment-87 ann Thu, 15 May 2008 07:57:46 +0000 http://blog.dancemeditation.org/2008/05/15/may-day-ly-practice-9/#comment-87 I finally did shadow and light, which I found quite a challenge. One of those times I didn't particularly enjoy it until afterwards! It acutely focused me, paying attention to the detail of where I was moving and from where I was observing. The nice part of it was the deeply integrated feel of my movement afterwards. Fell nicely into a slow (not too) perpetual motion practice, which I liked better than the perp motion practice I did earlier which resembled aerobic exercise for the first 10 minutes or more, before changing to a more fluid embodied practice. I tried to do those again today, but couldn't find the discipline for long. Instead I fell into prolonged stretches with some fluid motion. The interesting thing, is that I felt the spiral of my fascia, particularly in my thighs, connecting to my hips and buttocks, and surprisingly up into my jaw. It was the first time I felt this in this way. I wondered about the connections in these places for me, and am left with the wonder. I finally did shadow and light, which I found quite a challenge. One of those times I didn’t particularly enjoy it until afterwards! It acutely focused me, paying attention to the detail of where I was moving and from where I was observing. The nice part of it was the deeply integrated feel of my movement afterwards. Fell nicely into a slow (not too) perpetual motion practice, which I liked better than the perp motion practice I did earlier which resembled aerobic exercise for the first 10 minutes or more, before changing to a more fluid embodied practice.
I tried to do those again today, but couldn’t find the discipline for long. Instead I fell into prolonged stretches with some fluid motion. The interesting thing, is that I felt the spiral of my fascia, particularly in my thighs, connecting to my hips and buttocks, and surprisingly up into my jaw. It was the first time I felt this in this way. I wondered about the connections in these places for me, and am left with the wonder.

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