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Reinforcing Our Roots
🕑 Added 2025-09-29 18:52:12 +0000 UTCThese activities are invitations to reinforce your roots—not by drilling them into rigid form, but by creating the conditions for strength, balance, and composure that future activities can grow from.
Front knee raises
Lift your knee to belly button height. Stay with the same leg if you want to challenge your balance; alternate if you want rhythm. Explore how many you can do in a row—10, 20, or more—without forcing a number. Let the count help you notice endurance rather than measure worth.
Side knee raises
Bring your knee out to the side, still to belly button height. Freeze and squeeze. Flex both legs, including your ankles. Hold each freeze for as long as feels steady before stepping again. Try them while walking in place or around your pitch.
Baby squat
Drop into a deep sapling stance and sink as low as you comfortably can. This is an old imprinted movement, something we all did as babies, first learning to walk, and often kept through childhood. Reclaim it. Dig your toes into the ground, squeeze your legs, but keep your upper body soft. This position invites composure: staying cool as you place yourself under voluntary stress. For LMA, toughness is brittle. Composure is spirit under pressure. Here, we create safe opportunities to practice composure. Hold for as long as feels right to you.
Stone hopping
From a deep sapling stance, float your heels. Bend forward as if about to grip a boulder. Then imagine yourself in a rocky riverbed, hopping side to side from stone to stone while moving forward. Each hop is a negotiation between balance and momentum, ground and gravity. Feel the play in your steps. You decide how far, how many, and how long.
– Sam
