82: Bend and arch in sitting, head connected to the back

Bending and arching in sitting, hands on face

Sit near the front edge of a chair, or bench or log or rock. Feel your spine and arms and legs. Feel breathing and gravity. Feel your feet on the ground and your head at the top of your spine.

Now take your hands and hold your head like this: with each hand place your thumb under your ears and your other fingers above the ear, and the fingers point toward the back of your head. And with this unity of head and arms and chest, fold forward: stomach in, sternum sinking and back, pelvis rocking to the back edge, head lowering.

How does breathing like to go in this mode?

Then come back to neutral and do this many times, and then rest and feel and sense and learn yourself.

Then, take the same hand head position and push your belly forward and arch your spine and rock forward on your pelvis and bring your head back a little and raise your sternum. How does breathing like to go this way? Enjoy and come back to neutral and do this many times and go slow and observe and enjoy.

Rest.

Now do, go, learn, discover enjoy both ways, rounding and arching as a back and forth game. Go slow, feel one part at a time, the spine, the ribs, the pelvis, the head, the sternum, and then all the parts together.

Really enjoy.

If any pain, go less.

A lot less.

Enjoy.

Learn. Do this a bunch of times today, and stay knowing and awaring of your spine all day.

Good

Slow down, work the soil, breathe, soothe your soul

as winter
winds its way here
taking its globally warmed time

we have extra
"time"...
warmish
non rainy days

to make the soil
sweet for the spring

this is a good thing

to breathe
the fresh air

to move our bodies
as we move
the soil

even sweeter
to move our bodies
in any easy rhythm:
rounding and loading the nervous system as it were,
breathing in and ready to move
out into the world

push out
arching our backs,
breathing out,
lengthening,
powering into the soil
with our feet back self
powering out into the world
with shovel, mind, happiness
and
anything else
everything else

not strain
lots of gain

ease
pleasure
nowing


good