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Grounded Knick-Knack

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Incorporate this Grounded Knick-Knack Alignment into your daily Solid Ground Flow.

Place hands on the back of your calves, fingers facing down. Press calves forward one at a time (and say knick-knack), and press thighs back like a see-saw. This helps keep your legs in alignment and delight in the wordplay silliness at the same time. That’s balance.

If you don’t press calves forward and thighs back, give yourself a Paddy-Whack!

Use the Solid Ground Clock, Pose Cards, or Chips to help remember the sequence. Say the rhyme out loud or ask someone with a groovy voice to read it while you flow. Remember Great Breath leads the way…..

 

 

This Great Breath, He played one,

He played knick -knack for more fun.

With a Knick- Knack, (press each calf forward)

Thighs back,

Mountain Pose,

Root your feet and spread your toes.

 

This Great Breath, He played two,

He played knick -knack to renew.

With a Knick- knack,

Thighs back,

Forward fold,

Upside down and feeling bold.

 

This Great Breath, He played three,

He played Knick -Knack Jubilee.

With a Knick –knack,

Thighs back,

Up to Half Lift,

Side body long, you get the drift.

 

This Great Breath, He played four,

He played knick- knack to restore.

With a Knick- knack,

Thighs back,

Straight Leg Lunge,

Heart melts down to take the plunge.

 

This Great Breath, He played five,

He played knick- knack for the jive.

With a Knick- knack ,

Thighs back,

Step into plank,

Squeeze legs together for more strength.

 

This Great Breath, He played six,

He played knick -knack for more kicks.

With a Knick -knack,

Thighs back,

Knees, chest, chin,

Gratitude Pose brings on the grin.

 

This Great Breath, He played seven,

He played knick -knack like in heaven.

With a Knick- knack,

Thighs back,

Flat Like a Pancake,

Arm bones lift to feel awake.

 

This Great Breath, He played eight,

He played knick- knack to create.

With a knick –knack,

Thighs back,

Curl into Snake,

Press chest forward and celebrate.

 

This Great Breath, He played nine,

He played knick- knack to align.

With a Knick- knack,

Thighs back,

Downward Dog,

Tail is up and hands are clawed.

 

This Great Breath, He played ten,

He played knick- knack for the zen.

With a knick- knack,

Thighs back,

Straight Leg Lunge,

Heart melts to take the plunge.

 

This Great Breath, He played eleven,

He played knick -knack just like heaven.

With a Knick- knack,

Thighs back,

Up to Half Lift,

Side body long, you get the drift.

 

This Great Breath, He played twelve,

He played knick- knack for the Self.

With a Knick- knack,

Thighs back,

Forward fold,

Upside down and feeling bold.

 

This Great Breath, 2 plus ten,

He played knick-knack once again.

With a Knick –Knack,

Thighs back,

Up to stand,

Back to Mountain to gain command.

 

Keep going round and round until you feel Grounded and Grand!

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    The Skin Horse had lived longer in the nursery than any of the others. He was so old that his brown coat was bald in patches and showed the seams underneath, and most of the hairs in his tail had been pulled out to string bead necklaces. He was wise, for he had seen a long succession of mechanical toys arrive to boast and swagger, and by-and-by break their mainsprings and pass away, and he knew that they were only toys, and would never turn into anything else. For nursery magic is very strange and wonderful, and only those playthings that are old and wise and experienced like the Skin Horse understand all about it.

    “What is REAL?” asked the Rabbit one day, when they were lying side by side near the nursery fender, before Nana came to tidy the room. “Does it mean having things that buzz inside you and a stick-out handle?”

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    “Does it hurt?” asked the Rabbit.

    “Sometimes,” said the Skin Horse, for he was always truthful. “When you are Real you don’t mind being hurt.”

    “Does it happen all at once, like being wound up,” he asked, “or bit by bit?”

    “It doesn’t happen all at once,” said the Skin Horse. “You become. It takes a long time. That’s why it doesn’t happen often to people who break easily, or have sharp edges, or who have to be carefully kept. Generally, by the time you are Real, most of your hair has been loved off, and your eyes drop out and you get loose in the joints and very shabby. But these things don’t matter at all, because once you are Real you can’t be ugly, except to people who don’t understand.”

    “I suppose you are real?” said the Rabbit. And then he wished he had not said it, for he thought the Skin Horse might be sensitive.

    But the Skin Horse only smiled

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