…seekers all(10)…

— by Kimbal Anderson Sensei

But from here I’m totally stable. 

I can move.  

I can explode.

I can get into that place…. the Nara thing, right?

The whole idea of this is ‘heavy… heavy… heavy… heavy… heavy… right? And so if my hip’s a little tight, or my knee’s a little tight, instead of finding it, I just go ‘heavy….’

I let gravity inform my body and get out of the way, with any laugher or desires, and just go ‘ok, where do I feel any kind of tightness? That foot…’ Now watch.

Now watch where the power comes from.

Did I look ever like I was ever unbalanced? Because it’s an explosion of power, from that place I was showing you. And also you keep your place.

Look famiiar?

Look famiiar?

It’s Sensei’s thing, it’s what he does!

Well I’m thinking: ‘well how….? Okay.  What’s the kernel of wisdom in this? Not just copying him… What the hell’s going on there that I can use?’

Because he wasn’t going to share it…  Right… Okay…

But from there, when I move, I can absolutely just ‘heavy…heavy…heavy…heavy…’

Right. 

I’m totally relaxed. And in order to move, when I fire up down here: everything stays heavy, as it’s moving…

It’s totally effortless, Peter…

I feel no effort in that motion at all.

So if I can share that part of ‘heavy…heavy…’

You can practise it in everything!

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