Exercise is a question
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It has been a full week again. More friends have joined the training sessions, both men and women. It made me so so happy! 
I’m a bundle of joy! 
The training is still going strong – every day, at the same hours, almost like clockwork. It is amazing!
Not all the training we do is super hard or intense all the time, but doing it every day must make the difference. I feel stronger, I notice I can do more of and more easily things I would have perceived as hard not long ago. And my entire body is changing, toning and losing weight and getting better at dance routines.
This week I have also started feeling a knee pain that had me adapt all the week’s training such that the program continues, but with knee friendly or knee recovery exercises. It is feeling better, but not entirely healed.
My Anatomy of Yoga classes continued this week and I found that the practice done through those have made my knee feel better. Also discovered some lovely teachers. Loved Christina Sell for her wisdom, her choice of words when talking about the body and describing yoga.
Exercise is a question, not a demand.
You invite your body to try some adventurous moves and postures, but don’t force it into them. Yoga is an authentic expression, not something we impose upon ourselves.
Exercising reminds us, more obviously than anything else, the importance of practice. Reminds us of the process, the journey, and of developing body awareness, paying attention to what is unique about us and what our own best version of ourselves can be.
Exercising is an amazing opportunity to practice focusing on oneself, getting that habit of looking at your own progress relative to where you were yesterday.
I like something that a friend of mine once told me:
Find the vibe that makes you not care about anything but your line. Follow the line! own the line!
And then you can take this into any aspect of your life.
Such a focus can also help build resilience. Because you know your path, you are on it, you are learning, you are practicing your skills, you are improving in them relative to yesterday, you know it is a process, you know there are ups and downs. And you understand that everyone is on their journey, they have their own limitations to push through, their own ups and downs and some of the things they do and say, even towards/about you, are first and foremost about them. I can’t emphasize that enough – it is, first and foremost, about them.
Gerald Weinberg has a brilliant book – The Art of Giving and Receiving Feedback – that explains such things, how to learn to see them and many other aspects and subtleties and offers exercises at the end of each chapter so you can practice. I’ve done that and wrote about it in 
The Gorgeous Tester – Practice inspired by The Art of Giving and Receiving Feedback book.
I’m feeling good. Although my knee hurts sometimes, I still feel good, I’m still doing everything I can, adapting and putting the work on the path of healing as well, thus not giving up. As Christina Sell said:
The sense of discipline and hard work needs to meet acceptance and surrender.
This has been week #7 of daily exercise started during lockdown.
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