The Living Path of Embodied Learning
Learning is a rare activity where the mind never exhausts, never fears, and never regrets. Its beauty – no one can take it from you.
From the first moment in the Washindo practice space, our senses awaken with anticipation, flooded by wondrous sights, sounds, and feelings as we explore our depths.
We attune to our reactions through embodied exercises – obstacles providing experiences that mirror our learning about self.
Washindo embraces conventional teaching and experiential learning through engagement. Learning conditions vary per individual based on styles and preferences. Both teacher and student must recognize these differences.
The learning arrives touched by our innate genius, cleverly disguising itself to be organically absorbed. Sometimes gently massaging our thinking; others, the heart leaps with clarity. It may accompany us rhythmically until attunement, flash insight, or lay dormant.
While expecting the teacher to instruct, ultimately the student chooses when, what, and how learning integrates.
A realization often feels received for the first time, leaving the teacher pondering – what allowed this depth now?
Learning sources transformation, and change can seem uncomfortable or premature. Yet it does not go away, laying dormant until we awaken to its teachings.
Fascinatingly, one may retreat from learning, but it never abandons the student, patiently awaiting to be found.
We can find ourselves hostage to thought patterns, blinded by limiting beliefs about deserving, identity, potential – slowing progress toward isolation.
We must face – inviting learning catalyzes change. Desiring change, you cannot remain the same.
Beginners aim to learn something new. Over time, progress means releasing the outdated – old values, beliefs, baggage constraining evolution.
Learning refines, energizing the journey toward elegance, spellbinding.
Letting go of the unnecessary transitions from unrefined to elegant – an alluring, mind-expanding sojourn inspired by visions beyond.
Through practice we venture beyond the known, making “mistakes” – fascinating explorations into what works.
To live avoiding truth is being held hostage by delusion. This is not the way.
Being open to continuous, embodied learning through yoga, meditation, and martial arts – this is the living way.
