Neither the spiritual top nor the material bottom can help us but the depths of our body can[closed]
Move one muscle in your face. Stop. Do it again. Slow your heartrate. Now speed it up. Return to normal. Move each toe independently. Tense and contract tendons. This was Sheeana's 'warmup'. Whereas the archetypal martial arts teacher prepared for practice with a series of exxagerated stretches, touching their toes, kicking above their heads, for Sheeana the first thing was to enter into the total bodily awareness of the Weirding Way, to practice moving all the muscles, even the normally autonomous ones and those that couldn't move except with others. The tiniest fascia was under her control.
From the lotus position, she hopped up, tucking a foot under her, in a deep squat with the other leg pointed out straight, like a Russian dance frozen in place. Slowly she came to her feet, turning on her standing leg and curling her leg in until she was standing.
Then she dropped back into lotus and repeated the procedure on the other side.
Soon enough her two human students would arrive. She looked out across the park, over the purple grass, around diamond trees.
From the lotus position, she hopped up, tucking a foot under her, in a deep squat with the other leg pointed out straight, like a Russian dance frozen in place. Slowly she came to her feet, turning on her standing leg and curling her leg in until she was standing.
Then she dropped back into lotus and repeated the procedure on the other side.
Soon enough her two human students would arrive. She looked out across the park, over the purple grass, around diamond trees.