December 29, 2024
Bookmarking Joy in December, 5
My daughter Meg informed me many years ago that the image she carries of me in her mind is of my head’s moving through space of its own volition, trailing my body behind it and my toes’ dragging along barely touching the ground.
Enter qigong! I practice it both in a wonderful class on Monday mornings and on my own day to day, an element here, an element there, all of which together centers and grounds me. I am tremendously grateful to get out of my head and into my body!
grounded, we bow to
ourselves, bow to our teachers,
bow to each other.
1.5 x 5.5″, acrylic and collage on card stock
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2024
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12 responses to “Bookmarking Joy in December, 5”
Thanks for riding the bookmark joy train with me, MaryAnn!
I’ve long noticed that, no matter how often I pause to get out of my head and into my body in a restorative way, if you were to stop me—any time at all and as many times in a row as you chose—to ask me if my shoulders were relaxed, or my jaw, I’d always have room to let my shoulders let go and drop, my jaw release! But I DO move into my body to loosen and open it WAY more than in the past. I’m grateful to have increased mindfulness : )
THANKS!
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