1 Earth of Your Body (1 September 2025)

Meeting the Earth element for the first time this season, with specific focus on breathing into the abdomen, bringing mental energy down and the earth’s vitality up into the body. We connect to the Body of the Earth and the Earth of our Body (a phrase I learned and loved from Movement Medicine).

We do the following movements:

Belly breathing

Swaying backwards and forwards to find your central axis

Buddha holds up the earth

Side bend with diagonal stretch

Wide-stance knocking on the door of life

Water waves

Belly circles

Grinding tofu (or wheat) + qi ball breathing (fingers down)

Pebble in the pond

Centring