Hi all,
Happy 2023 to you – I hope you are settling in and feeling grounded, loved, and deserving?
In my August letter last year, I included a few life-movement examples to help maintain and restore all-round functionality. For January & February 2023 I’m choosing balance, and balancing me/we - I came across this analogy: “Balance isn’t necessarily about keeping things even, it’s about not falling over”.
So how do we dance with gravity? Carefully I hear you say, and you’d be right. Balance requires awareness and from a motion perspective, a degree of concentration because “everything orbits around centre and your perceived centre dictates movement, posture, pain and potential”. (G.Ward)
Centre, meaning the midpoint of all things and ‘perceived centre’ because many of us haven’t the slightest idea where on the spectrum that is unless you explore and challenge your movement potential in a 3-dimensional way every day.
“Who feels it, knows it” and that is what I’m here to help you with – to help you find your flow state (which often translates into multiple aspects of life), and an integral component of this is called “mass management”.
Interestingly, your centre of mass is approximately an inch below your navel and collides with the L4/L5 inter-vertebral joint, a region of the spine where a fast majority of people suffer from back pain and present with structural deficiency. If you are among that group, chances are you could use some re-calibrating.
On a more spiritual note, my dear friend James and I are excited to host Timber Hawkeye, bestselling author of Buddhist Boot Camp, Faithfully Religionless and The Opposite of Namaste.
It’s a free book talk, discussion and Q & A on Wednesday February 15th from 7-8:30pm at the Marine Education Centre on The Esplanade in Island Bay (across the street from my home and work studio at 224) – it would be great to see you there and mingle among like-minded people.
The only other thing I have brewing is my Kawakawa Balm beautifully infused in hemp seed oil. Kawakawa leaves contain myristicin which is mildly antiseptic and has pain numbing properties. Maori have used Kawakawa preparations for a wide variety of ailments including wounds, bruises, rheumatic pain, and it’s amazing for dry and itchy skin. The additional anti-inflammatory quality is thanks to the NZ hemp seed oil which contains essential fatty acids. Txt or email me if you’d like to order a pottle or two and I’ll send it out to you.
Enough from me for now.
Yours in movement and great health,
Fem.
