A Moving Mindfulness Practice 

Many thoughts and emotions are transient. How can you help these uncomfortable sensations move on? How can you help attain more balance throughout the entire body? 

Learn how to feel grounded.

Focus on your natural breathing, notice the current inhalation and exhalation. 

Practice your forms semi-slowly, moving arms in a firm, flowing, expressive manner. Use imagined resistance to load joints and muscles. 

If desired use affirmations to increase security, creativity, and happiness.

Stimulate and strengthen the core, the seat of power, the power center. 

Engage as much of the body as you are able in both the static and dynamic forms.

Create a new quality of movement, not a final shape.

Develop attention to the subtle flow of energy throughout the body.

What happens when errant thoughts, or emotions, intrude into your attention to the present moment? Don’t judge it, it is not you. Don’t create stories about them. Although sometimes you can learn to toss these intruders away, learning to isolate the associated “physical” sensation, and giving IT attention is a more complete response. 

All clients must feel free to back out at any time from any movement or technique, if they feel uncomfortable.

This is not psychology or psychiatry. It is not a substitute for medical care. 

These are stress management practices, that include a recognition of the physical or bodily counterpart of stressful thoughts and emotions. We work to affect and neutralize these seeming remnants of fear, anxiety, anger, etc. through nonjudgmental attention through the breath. We relax at a deep level.