Teaching moving as koan

A koan is like someone pointing and saying: “Look at the lovely moon.”

Look at the moon not at the words and gesture.

I teach you a way to sit — not for you to sit that way all the time. I teach you to sit for you to feel yourself sit. Your feel will help you move well all day.

I guide you in ways of moving that feel good. We nurture and tune our feel as we move. These lead to freeing us to feeling good and vital.

We can discuss a pose or a koan. But moving and proprioception and interoception and feeling within shows us the way. Doing and feeling reshapes us, not an understanding.

I write about what I teach to show where to listen. I write to inform and remind rather than instruct. I write about a pose to gesture toward the direction to listen to yourself doing the pose.

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Don’t look at the sit, or a pose. They are gestures. They show a direction. Listen to yourself toward that direction as you move and feel.

Yoga show us to feel and free ourselves. You feel good. You can feel good more. Look to that.