The Studio warmup / cooldown

A warm up for the studio:

Begin with a mantra. Here are some:

I AM CAPABLE

MINIMIZE MY APATHY

DON’T REPENT REPLY

THERE IS A TRAIL

YOU ARE NOT STARTING FROM SCRATCH

Or repeat all of these and add more as they come, as needed in the context of the day.

I HAVE TIME

I HAVE WEALTH TO SHARE

I WILL BE HEARD AS LONG AS I TAKE TIME TO ARTICULATE

I WILL TAKE TIME

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A cool down from the studio:

End with a big breath, and while exhaling, throw my upper torso down, bending at the waist, pointing my crown to the ground with my arms dangling there too, chin tucked in, and look between my legs to see the studio upside down. If there is work to be seen in the room, I look at that upside down too. I take another deep breath in this position, exhale and bend deeper ragdoll more, loosen my lips by blowing out and letting them flap together and make that brrrrrrrrrrr noise, direct the noise at the work, like, you aren’t all that matters, but you really matter, but you aren’t all that matters, because not one thing is all that matters, and you are in a constellation and you exist and I WILL BE BACK.