Happy New Year 🙂
Stability and mobility / fluidity are 2 concepts I bring up in probably every class I teach, because they’re always applicable and always important — both individually and as a unit.
Without stability, we are like loose, unhinged noodles without a backbone for physical or mental steadiness.
Without mobility, we are stiff Tin-Man-like humans without the fluidity we need to feel creative and spacious in our bodies and minds.
Geeta Iyengar summarized it beautifully:
… Stability is not stagnation. It has to remain flowing like the river water constantly.
I developed a class called Yoga Core — a blend of yoga, Pilates, and functional movement — to meet a demand for Pilates at a community center where I live in Nice, in which stability and mobility are the main players.
The students are mostly retired and / or over 50 years old, but they are some of the most resilient and enthusiastic people I’ve had the pleasure of teaching — they inspire me to adopt their ongoing willingness and curiosity to embody the steadiness and spaciousness concepts I love to share.
*Explore over 20 on-demand yoga classes I created in various styles, lengths and levels.
As we welcome in the new year, my hope is that we can do whatever we need to do to cultivate the physical, mental, and emotional stability and mobility we need for mind-body wellbeing — whether via movement, community gatherings, mindfulness practices, or whatever else makes us feel calm and aware.
Maybe that equanimity can be a ripple effect into 2025 and beyond…
In what ways do you cultivate physical, mental, and emotional stability and mobility?
Take good care and happy 2025,
S
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