Calling All Wild Things (90 minutes)
Playlist: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/1PqXn8mUbxccVxaN2aVCto?si=d97921cd9bb74850
One poetic description of Wild Thing Pose, Camatkarasana, is “the ecstatic unfolding of the unraptured heart.” To undomesticate ourselves we need to enliven that pool of energy dwelling at the pelvic floor and from there we have to strengthen our backs. Slumping, computers, exhaustion, cold, anxiety, self doubt, the uninvited male gaze towards my larger chested sisters, overextending to give to others but not give to yourself, and broken heartedness can close the heart space and sink the chest. Strengthen your back you step into your strength to open: to reclaim your wild, expansive heart. Let’s claw down into our fingertips. Let’s flip it open. Find a foothold that pushes you to the edge of your wildness. Turn your heart up to the wide open sky. It might be a bit of wild thing, you might flip deeper, it might become full wheel, we might find fluency and active glutes rolling all the way belly down to belly up, finding that fine sweet edge of control and surrender as you gain trust that your body knows the way. Some of us will walk the wheel! Some of us will Forearm Wheel, heart pulling through! We will stand on our forearms. We will bow to what is wild, playful, curious, undomesticated, and open.
Playlist: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/1PqXn8mUbxccVxaN2aVCto?si=d97921cd9bb74850
One poetic description of Wild Thing Pose, Camatkarasana, is “the ecstatic unfolding of the unraptured heart.” To undomesticate ourselves we need to enliven that pool of energy dwelling at the pelvic floor and from there we have to strengthen our backs. Slumping, computers, exhaustion, cold, anxiety, self doubt, the uninvited male gaze towards my larger chested sisters, overextending to give to others but not give to yourself, and broken heartedness can close the heart space and sink the chest. Strengthen your back you step into your strength to open: to reclaim your wild, expansive heart. Let’s claw down into our fingertips. Let’s flip it open. Find a foothold that pushes you to the edge of your wildness. Turn your heart up to the wide open sky. It might be a bit of wild thing, you might flip deeper, it might become full wheel, we might find fluency and active glutes rolling all the way belly down to belly up, finding that fine sweet edge of control and surrender as you gain trust that your body knows the way. Some of us will walk the wheel! Some of us will Forearm Wheel, heart pulling through! We will stand on our forearms. We will bow to what is wild, playful, curious, undomesticated, and open.
Playlist: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/1PqXn8mUbxccVxaN2aVCto?si=d97921cd9bb74850
One poetic description of Wild Thing Pose, Camatkarasana, is “the ecstatic unfolding of the unraptured heart.” To undomesticate ourselves we need to enliven that pool of energy dwelling at the pelvic floor and from there we have to strengthen our backs. Slumping, computers, exhaustion, cold, anxiety, self doubt, the uninvited male gaze towards my larger chested sisters, overextending to give to others but not give to yourself, and broken heartedness can close the heart space and sink the chest. Strengthen your back you step into your strength to open: to reclaim your wild, expansive heart. Let’s claw down into our fingertips. Let’s flip it open. Find a foothold that pushes you to the edge of your wildness. Turn your heart up to the wide open sky. It might be a bit of wild thing, you might flip deeper, it might become full wheel, we might find fluency and active glutes rolling all the way belly down to belly up, finding that fine sweet edge of control and surrender as you gain trust that your body knows the way. Some of us will walk the wheel! Some of us will Forearm Wheel, heart pulling through! We will stand on our forearms. We will bow to what is wild, playful, curious, undomesticated, and open.