Step 65 Warming Up

Mike: Here’s an easy way to warm up. [I bear hug Pat.]

Pat: [Pushing me down to the ground and sitting on my shoulders.]   Being warmed up means you’re so at home with you that you DO NOT NEED TO GO ANYWHERE ELSE.  

Mike: [I push Pat off me.] 

Pat:  Warm up by discovering how you are moved to move.

Mike:  [I stretch and crawl on the floor.]

Pat:  A warm up is continual awakening.

Mike: [Eventually, like a slow motion movie of a plant growing, I spiral to standing at ease.]

Pat:  Even when you feel you’ve warmed up--continue to be at ease while continual awakening

Mike:  [I stand in a tree pose.]  It’s challenging to be awakening and at ease at the same time.

Pat: You don’t have to try to do anything!  Just wait until movements arise out of your ease.

Mike: [When I am moved to I dance into an at-ease pose and back to a tree pose and then back to at-ease.]

Pat:  When you are moved to, dance around and in my space without touching or interfering with me.

Mike: [I put my foot between Pat’s feet without touching them.]

Pat: There is a synergy of energies when we have both arrived into our own place.

Mike: [Pat starts turning around and with my foot between his feet I turn too.  We move slowly and then with our arms up faster and faster.]