This month I invite you to support your local LGBT+ communities in ways you can. Show us you care and you stand with us. Not only is this a powerful heart opener off the mat, it’s also a magnificent way to connect with your own personal power — you can do something.

For those of us that live in a near (or actual) state of constant tension and activation, softening our bodies can be so far beyond our realm of familiarity that we don’t recognize it as safe for our bodies. It brings a lot of sensations that aren’t the hard, locked muscles we’ve grown accustomed to moving with. Instead it brings things like twitching, shifting, lengthening,  and loosening, and sometimes those things are uncomfortable or even hurt.