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‘Like a balancing pose in yoga, ceramics provides a perfect feedback loop: exit your body and enter your busy mind, and you will likely teeter and fall. Or, in this case, try to bully the clay with strength, not stillness, and it turns into a guided missile rather than a bowl.’ I’m currently on week 7 of a pottery course with the amazing Stonehenge Pottery– this article strikes a chord!
via here
reaching the centre
in yoga practice
you try to reach that centre inside your body
from which it is possible to expand…
in yoga, with listening, with attention
with the clarity that comes from the practice
slowly slowly slowly
you touch the spot from which you can expand
into the ground and into space
Challenge your centre
‘To stabilise your body around neutral, and in particular your core, limits movement in the spine whilst also limiting…full movement potential.
How can we know where centre is if we don’t know where the boundary or limits to our centre are?’ Gary Ward, What the Foot?
Handstand images from Natural Handstands.