A couple of weeks ago I launched this year’s free five-day challenge. I call it Be Kind. Through five days the participants get five challenges and the invitation to reflect about them under the theme of being kind.
Over 250 people have taken the challenge so far. As a teacher I get the privilege of reading the comments. The kindness you are showing yourselves and your classmates in the course is truly heartwarming. So many of you discover new ways of looking at the spinning process and your part in it. And while you are finding ways of being kind to yourselves, you are being kind to other spinners, just by sharing your experiences in the classroom.
The kindness in the spinning community
I see this every time I create a five-day challenge. There is so much kindness in the spinning community and I get to experience it first hand. While I do put the course together, you do the hard work – the challenging of your habits, movement patterns and ways of thinking about spinning. Even if I know you will make lots of progress, I am always amazed at the discoveries you make, just by stopping and listening to mind, body and spirit. In that regard, all the challenges I have made are about being kind. One student writes in Be Kind: ”Each day I looked forward to the next lesson. The course has encouraged me to experiment and has reinforced the idea that there are no real mistakes only chances to learn and possibly make more discoveries that can feed into future spinning and weaving.” It is comments like these that remind me over and over again of the kindness in the spinning community.
I do genuinely thank you all for your commitment and reflections. If you haven’t taken the challenge, please do, and be kind to yourself while at the same time contributing to the spinning community. If you have taken it already, do share it with your spinning friends.
A book update
Meanwhile, I have revisited my book for the first time since I handed it in to my editor in September. I got the book manuscript back from my editor last week and it was sweet to pay the script a visit again, with a fresh glance. There were some smaller adjustments I needed to make, but the big thing was that I need to get the word count down by up to a third. I knew it would happen, but slicing a script written from the heart is still a big thing. With the four month break from the book, though, the words aren’t still vibrating on my skin and I can take a step back and see the text from a more mature perspective. And I will be kind to myself when I do.
Happy spinning!
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