My feet are fragile

At the end of this summer I was in Kraków, filming the library of practices, supporting my clients, supporting women (supporting me) to deepen our relationship with our body. Rhythmic Movements is live and you can become a founding woman. 🎉

But before all that came to be ... there was the field of my learnings through this very practice.

On the fourth day we filmed Yielding (one of the suggested rhythms of our lived experience). I wore creamy white. The expansion, the wings, the openness. The yielding to life, to the body, to its wisdom, to the oneness within.

Two days later I missed a step on the stairs.

When I watched my left ankle twist under the weight of my body, because I went faster than my physical and emotional body could - I came to a complete halt.

Followed by days of being extra careful, managing a swollen pain I couldn't see or touch. A bubble of fluid had gathered around my bones, protecting them. My body was holding the injury so the rest of me could keep moving.

And the rest of me did continue to move. But differently. Not better, not worse. Differently. Because I too. keep learning what my body needs and unlearning the judgement and shame dialogues that come with those needs.

A week later I wrote this.

My feet are fragile
The bridge between me and the soil
Between the foundational nutrients I receive that keep my system healthy and anchored.

pause. stop.
sense. smell. adjust
go. turn. be.

I've stopped wearing shoes that would give me discomfort,
I stopped caring what that looks like
I am learning to stop going at the speed that gives me discomfort
and instead revert to luxury of my own comfort and speed

To source the nourishment and wisdom from the soil, from nature, from the surface. What it means to anchor beneath you to be able to take the leaps forward. Balance, resourced. Self-love above all.

None of this made me doubt what I did.
No doubt of commitment.
No doubt what's also true in the learning.

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This is what the practices are for.

This work is about the body, and not only the body that bleeds. It is about the body we've been told to mistrust, to optimize, to move past. It's about the body that we have not studied. Left out of text books, medical curriculum, safety tests and design of every day infrastructure, again and again. The body reduced to our fertility, that becomes invisible thereafter.

This work is about the surrender to the wisdom of this body, to that which is within me.

Rhythmic Movements is a way of meeting your body exactly where it is today, and learning to hear what it is telling you.

Your body already knows. It will not tell you what it knows ahead of time. You find out by going there, again and again, and listening.

The library opens on 1 November 2026 as we turn towards the dark part of the year. It's made up of seven rhythms of movement practice, filmed for you to come back to in your own time. Falling, Burning, Sinking, Reaching, Turning, Rising, Yielding.

By purchasing the library today, you support the web of relational bodies it's taken to create it. And you get to practice with it as it launches.
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And if you would like to begin tonight, there is a practice waiting for you, free. Sensing the taste and smell invites you to drop into your body, your sensations, into the story within. Come back to it again and again.
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Tell me, where is your body asking you to pause right now? And what happens when you listen?

If your body tells you something, share it with me. I would love to listen with you.

with warmth,

Anna Teresa

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