HOW to Practice

Sound on and follow attentively!

What’s the point of this video?

It is showing a little exercise of differentiation and separation of the torso sections but that is not why I’m posting it.

What is also present here is a state of PLAYFUL WORK. It’s a state in which one can do a lot, it is a state not of merely fooling around and losing focus but opposite - of being present, focused and engaged to the utmost.

Note how my partners are smiling and laughing but through their performance of the task it is clear they are engaged & focused while enjoying.

This enjoyment makes them EFFORTLESSLY PRESENT.

I often think that many misunderstand a state of ‘deep work’ with a state of frowning, ‘serious business’, hard energy yet those who truly go far in practice (any practice) in my experience are playful, soft yet extremely focused and present for long periods of time by finding ways to remain in enjoyement, curiosity, lightness.

A lot is there to be learned on the level of the HOW to practice and although the majority of ‘content’ around us is devoted to the WHAT, I believe the HOW is a much more important and fundamental layer in the way we practice. This is an area I discuss with my students often.

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*thanks to my partners here the one of a kind Martin Kilvady and the undeniable Odel