03/07/2021
Don’t try this video at home, don’t try to copy the movements, instead, sit or lie or stand and move your body in any way that feels good for you right now
My long-awaited weekend away in Brighton with my best friends got kiboshed by Covid on Tuesday. On Wednesday morning an email newsletter arrived from Naomi Absalom, a yoga teacher who I met just once on her workshop a few years ago. Her email talked about belonging and how the past months have allowed many of us to disconnect
I was drawn to this notion that perhaps we have become too resilient, too self-sufficient over the last 18 months and how belonging is in fact so important to us on all levels
As someone who prides themselves on doing it alone and being independent (stubborn?) I wondered if lockdown had turned me from resilient to recluse. Apart from teaching, I haven’t joined a group yoga class for several months. I have got used to my own practice.
In Naomi’s words, lockdown “had really started to impact upon my own capacity to receive and the necessity to feel belonging…What I neglect to remember is that so often our ability to adapt can be like turning the colour dial down on our lives….that when we think in limited ways, we behave in limited ways. “
I signed up for the class this morning and danced and moved and laughed and cried (wasn’t going to admit that, but why the heck shouldn’t I?!) and came away uplifted by the energy of the class, the playlist (Echo Beach Nathaniel Rateliffe 💞), and a reminder that it doesn’t all have to be done alone
So please don’t copy these movements, just move your body, and remember it’s ok to be strong but as humans we need to belong too
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(Naomi isn’t on Instagram but you can find her by googling Naomi Absalom Collective Energy)
