1.) What are the easy ingredients to remember in your loop?
- Sit, Squat, Stand
2.) Describe your process.
- To be honest, I’ve been waiting to film this for a long time…..hoping that “one day” I will be “in the mood” or “feeling flowy”. The truth is, I haven’t had one of those days, so my process was to just make the decision to do it and do my best. I chose these parts because weeks ago I did a practice teaching for Floor Flow with my class at my studio. Our loop was sit, squat, stand. So, I was already a little comfortable with allowing my body to travel through these movements in a way that felt comfortable for me. It’s dull and raining here today in MI. I decided this morning that I was going to wear sweatpants and a sweatshirt all day with no make up – and stay inside! Believe it or not, this kind of put me in a relaxed mood. I don’t have a lot of mom duties or business duties today and I just already felt relaxed and ready to film.
3.) What felt good?
- My body feels good when level changes exist. There is something that really awakens in my body when I press & push while moving in between levels. My healthy challenge is always distractions: I’m a single mom and run a multiple businesses while homeschooling my son and have a toddler at home. There isn’t really many seconds in my life that I have a long chunk of time to prepare to relax, relax, and recover from relaxing – if that makes sense. I have to schedule those weekends a couple of times per year and one of them didn’t lead into during this scheduling session! My healthy challenge though is to always make the time to slow down, breathe, have alone time. I have to make that happen even with all of the distractions that I do have to calming myself in the midst of “all the things happening and going on” is what I have to do and how I have to make things work. And you can see that from my video! It was challenging to do this in under 4 minutes.
4.) What would I do differently?
- I probably would have moved for 5-10 minutes first and then video’d.
5.) What did I learn that I will apply?
- It really does take time to enter into that Flow State – as we have learned in this training. Teaching students that you need to give yourself the time and patience to think and feel while you are moving. You don’t learn something and then do it perfectly or get lost in it right away. It takes exploration and time.