We spend so much of our lives rushing from one event to the next that we forget there is another way to live. We forget that it’s possible to move through our days with steadiness and ease. We forget that we don’t always have to race breathlessly, full-speed ahead.

Practice gives us an opportunity to remember what it feels like to slow down, to exhale, to be. Practice helps our sticky habits (like the habit of speed) release their grip and maybe even slip away. Practice lets us explore alternative ways of moving through our lives. And it gives us the skills to shift from fast to slow and then - when necessary - to fast again. What a relief to discover that we have a choice, that there are many ways to live and move and breathe.

This 25-minute practice is slow, steady and restful. It is a gentle movement practice with a meditative focus. Or, alternatively, it may be a meditation practice accompanied by gentle movement. Or maybe it is both. Either way, it is an opportunity to downshift our nervous systems and return us to a less frantic and more gentle way of being in the world.

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