🎥 ICYMI: I did a 30-Day Big Magic Challenge last year 🎥

🐠 30-Day Big Magic Challenge - Day 8: Get Into Your Skin https://youtu.be/iESkyCoxjkc

🐠 Today I’m pondering the lure of productivity, inspiration, and mobilization. Inspiration and creativity can elevate our levels of excitation. All of this energy - even the fun, healthy, exciting kind - can be depleting as we stay at a low level of excitation without resetting. We can caught up in the forward momentum and forget to pause and replenish.

🐠 This floor exercise was inspired by Babette Lightner (see link below). Find an inviting space with room to make a snow angel. Lie quietly for a moment, locating yourself in the space, on the ground, and in your body. Notice your breath. What bodily sensations are you aware of? Are you aware of your SKIN SENSE? Your skin covers your entire surface area and is astoundingly SENSITIVE. Allow yourself to RECEIVE SENSATION through your skin. What does the air feel like against your skin? The floor? Your clothes? The breath across your upper lip and chin?

🐠 Allow the skin sense curiosity to inspire MOVEMENT across the floor. Follow your inner “yum” - what shapes feel delicious and invite you to linger?

🐠 Now stand up and walk around the space. How do you feel now? Sing a phrase or vocal exercise. What feels different or interesting about singing now? What do you feel ready to do now?

🐠 Check out Babette’s movement work and free videos here: http://www.lightnermethod.com/

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