TriSkill: Holistic Fitness

12/08/2024

The only "routine" I espouse, is getting down on your mat, and doing what it takes to relax and let your body decide how to proceed with nothing/action of whatever kind.
Until you listen to your body, you will not have an effective practice for you.
PS I personally listen to 432Hz "music". Works for me!
❤🙏🏻☯️

06/05/2024

How are you doing on your holistic fitness journey?
Where are you in your cycle of fitness, in your cycle of life? Are you in a rest phase or an active phase? Do you know right now what your body is craving? Because your body knows. How do we listen to our bodies? It's pretty simple... if you're tired you rest, if you are drawn to exercise you exercise, if you are drawn to stretching you stretch, if you are drawn to eating you eat.
Sounds simple doesn't it? But a lot of the time our mind or our schedule or our fear is dictating our choices.
For example I had been drawn to a beautiful practice for about eight weeks. Every day I turned up for a beautiful practice. It felt so good. My body was responding really well to the new regime. I had more energy and I was more pain-free than I had been in a while. Then I hit a wall of some description. I was no longer drawn to practice on a daily basis. It started to become a chore. I was surprised because I knew that it had felt so good to turn up for my practice. Today after a week I finally have been drawn to my practice again and I know that, in hindsight, I was being asked to surrender to the rhythm, and this is where trust comes in.
I did not have the joy for that practice for a week.
I was actually beating myself up for not doing the practice and had to consciously stop my self from beating myself up for not doing the practice.
Everything in right timing. Do not be hard on yourself. The natural cycles will tell you what you need in this moment.
Now, when you are drawn to be active, all that is required is to hear which practice your body wants.
So, can you be open to learning how to trust that?

24/03/2024

For me Relaxation is only about Surrender.
Surrender to what?

Well, for the Body, I see it as Surrender to gravity and for the Mind, I see it as surrendering your attachment to thoughts and for the Heart/Soul I see it as surrendering to Trust or we might call it Love.

I will discuss each of these in separate posts.

Meanwhile hang in there brothers and sisters, and try to relax.
(And if that triggers you... guess what...? 💖)

🙏🏻❤

20/03/2024

I'm simply going to have to revive this page. 😍
As a Dancing Heart Path facilitator and eternal student of the practice of Embodiment through Conscious Dance, other beneficial practices come my way that are simply outside the remit of Dance.
It's also becoming clear that I have been touching on my passion for years, and recently I have decided that it is integral to all somatic practices... including Dance of course 😉

I also believe that there is not enough emphasis on it as a basis for a successful practice, nor even as a goal.
I would like to know how any practice benefits when this particular element is not included and emphasised, and the difference it makes to be aware of this element in any given somatic practice. But I believe it is ALL the difference.

That element is Relaxation, with a capital R, I mean fundamental, original, central, integral - relaxation at the deepest levels in our bodies and in our associated nervous systems.

To be continued... 🥰

13/10/2021

03/10/2020

Thanks for all the support today folks. Thanks for joining up and the likes. I feel reinspired to offer encouragement to you to take back your life if and how you need to... but I hope you will reach out if you need help too. 💛

03/10/2020

Here I am. I haven't given up on my Holistic Fitness Journey. Or on yours.

Over the last year and a half I gave myself the gift of a reset.

My life was not what you could call sustainable.

I was always on the brink of a stress-related breakdown, whether it manifested in body or mind, I felt completely inadequate to the task of "moving ahead" with my life. Sometimes of just living.

Despite that, I stuck with my various trainings, work, obligations etc but I found I had zero time for "extras" like having fun with friends. In fact, I became so irritable with friends that I either lost them or cut myself off from them in the fear of losing them.

So, yes... in hindsight, that was no life.

And I couldn't figure it out from where I was, constantly under financial pressure and cut off from support.

I got the "hell out of [my personal] Dodge".

I offered myself as volunteer to a young, developing project which I resonated with at the heart level. There I mostly built a garden and painted windows and cleaned things.

I dedicated the next year and several months to staying away from mental stress, paying attention to my bodily activities (physicality), dealing with my emotional development (or lack of...😲). I went deep into a process that took me to new emotional depths and heights. I stayed grounded, fed myself well and got lots of rest. Magically enough, I was supported in all this by complete strangers who have become dear friends.

The thing is, not everybody can do this in the way that I did... but what they CAN do is give to themselves.

First step is to ask and answer the question "What do I need, right NOW?"

Does that sound easy? Well, in my experience it isn't. And if you have never asked yourself that question, well it's downright alien-speak.

I was lucky. People kept asking me "What do you want/need?" until I woke up to the fact that I hadn't a clue.

Now I am YOUR wake-up call.

If you are living in ANY kind of anxious, stressful, fearful way it's only a sign. A sign that you need to take care of YOU.

And you have my permission. You ARE worth it.

In fact nothing is more worth your time than addressing your quality of life.

No matter your state of health now, you can improve it by paying attention to what you need. Right Now. Please.

PS One reason is that the World needs you to know how it is to take care of YOU. So you can recognise that to take care of you, you need to take decisions that take care of it. This becomes a natural, rewarding interaction. (Not the off-putting, disciplinary deprivation and hard work that it is advertised to be. Honestly.)

Small steps. What do you need right now?
A kind word, a warm hand on your shoulder, a cup of tea made for you, a listening ear, a lie down, a break from everything, a walk in the woods, silence, a wild dance to loud music? Do it... do it for yourself... and ask someone for the things you want from others. If the first one refuses, ask another. It's how it WORKS. So, don't give up.

I love us. 💛 I'm back and I'm not even close to giving up on us.