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31 DAYS OF GENTLENESS
Let’s Move Our Bodies With Gentleness
Day 19: It feels incredibly healing and empowering moving with this intention
I’ve fallen sick recently, and I hated that experience. I felt so useless and unproductive. All I wanted was just to lie in bed all day long. Just a couple of hours playing outdoors with my kids made me kinda woozy and weak.
In hindsight, I’m grateful for that experience. It made me crave physical comfort instead of overthinking. As I started to gain more strength, I still didn’t have the energy to work on my laptop. My body craved gentle movement, and so I played some soothing piano music by BigRicePiano, and danced freestyle with the intention of embodying gentleness.
Even though I had to dance in this tiny room, I was grateful to have this time and space for myself while my mom played with my two older kids out in the living room. You’ll hear her talking in the background, which makes this video special for me because it reminds me how I don’t need to be totally alone to…
