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Your body

You cannot think your way out of a body that is braced. This area starts there: the breath, the ground under you, moving, eating, resting, and the small physical things that change how the rest of the day lands.

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Posture and how you carry yourself Five minutes Any ordinary day Clear all

Theme · Posture and how you carry yourself

Your nervous system 54 Food, caffeine and fuel 29 Touch and bodywork 22 Grounding and settling 19 Moving your body 17 Breathing 10 Feeling from the inside 10 Posture and how you carry yourself 3 Rest and pacing 1

How long you have · Five minutes

A minute 4 Five minutes 3 Twenty minutes 2

When · Any ordinary day

Any ordinary day 3 Under stress 3

Once a shape feels safe, it becomes somewhere to explore from. The question stops being am I doing this right and turns into how does my body want to move now.

Stay in an easy position long enough for it to go slightly dull. Dull is the sign that the ground under you is steady. From there, small experiments:…

Five minutesPosture and how you carry yourselfBody basedQur’an 3:191

Picture a cat getting up from a nap. One side lengthens and reaches while the other side curls in, then they swap over. Do that. Add breath and sound if you want them.

After a minute of copying the animal, drop the instructions and let your body carry on however it likes. That is the reason for starting here:…

Five minutesPosture and how you carry yourselfBody basedQur’an 19:58

Take a shape that asks something of you, warrior or mountain, eyes open, the middle of your body switched on. Then, without coming out of it, drop your attention inside and let the pose hold you instead.

Two things get practised in one position. First the doing: strong legs, clear gaze, a body that is ready. Then the yielding: still there, still…

Five minutesPosture and how you carry yourselfBody basedQur’an 2:238