The season swells, nature is in full bloom and the days are long and light (sometimes even warm). This week in the classes we’ve been aligning ourselves with the outward energy of summer and I’ve been inviting an exploration of soft expansion, both in the movements and in our beings.
We work from the bottom up. First building our base of support; connecting to the earth through the feet and the tail. This creates the ground into which we can release. Letting go of that which we no longer need opens up space for life to move through us. When we are rooted and held steady by the earth we can feel safe to open and expand without compromise to our stability.
In my own practice I have been becoming curious about how it feels to really fill out and take up my space; to give myself permission to express the fullness of who I am; to be big. The resonances of an upbringing where “children should be seen and not heard” are like threads of fear that form a constrictive network around my being. As I move though the sequence in soft expansion, holding myself steady in the soothing caress of the gestures, I can feel these threads pulled taut. Some of them snap. Now there’s a little less apology in me.
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