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Change Practice

My name is Lujine Nasralla and I am a writer living in Detroit. I am trying to figure out what direction my life is heading in professionally. Been really struggling with the career that I’m currently in and trying to ask myself questions about where I want to go, who I want to be.

When I’m in the midst of change I hold a lot of that process in my hips. It feels like it just swirls around in there for a long time and if I don’t move my body it just becomes stagnant. It kind of takes over and my body just becomes in limbo and it’s really uncomfortable.

If you’re feeling that you’re in a moment of change or that change is around you, surrounds you, then I invite you to come into this movement practice with me and see where you are by the end of it.

So, you’re standing and we don’t really think about what we’re doing when we’re standing. Feel your hips just kind of get a little lower when you bend your knees. Keep your belly-button tucked towards your spine and your spine tucked towards your belly-button and then gently lift each one of your toes up one at a time. You could start from either end. I like to start from my big toe and then gently bringing each one of your toes back down, one at a time. You can move slow like you’re pushing them through honey.

In the event that you’re not standing you can do this with the muscles in your face. Relax your jaw. Lift your eyebrows. Bring them back down. I always wish I could lift one eyebrow but I can’t do that. But anyway, lift your eyebrows. Bring them back down. Close your eyes if they aren’t already closed. Then open one. Open the other. Move your eyes from side to side. Feel the muscles working from the corners of your eyes to the side of your face to your forehead. Now that you’ve moved those muscles, how does it feel to use them again?