Do you have a practice? What does that mean to you?

Reflecting on this year, this word has come up a lot for me. I didn’t start movement training and education this year, but this was the year when I felt that I have finally developed my practice.
My current understanding of practice is comprised of the following ingredients:

• consistency and commitment over a prolonged period of time, which allows me to keep expanding and evolving my understanding of whatever I am doing;
• shift of my identity to “practitioner” so I can practice on my terms (be it in class, at home, in my mind) without being attached to any one format;
• merging of the practice with life, first in the form of integrating it in daily activities and eventually accepting it as a way of seeing the world.

Do you observe your practice as a full-body experience?

The fact that my practice is a physical practice has been very important for me. We live in a world of physical comfort and glorification of the mental power, while our level of physical proficiency (skills but also awareness) is rather low on average. Although the mind and body bi-directional influence is something we all live, the role of physical experience in shaping our mental narrative is not acknowledged enough in my opinion. Movement practice taught me to pay attention to the full human experience and gave me tools to affect my experience through the body.

Why practice?

Life is one big practice, we are always practicing something. Why not choose what and how you practice? And if you commit to a practice for long enough, it will no longer be attached to any goal but to the activity of practicing itself. Unlimited plan for life.