My kids are doing a “junior lifeguard” training this week and mostly that is an email for another day:) Having 100% homeschool kids shows itself at times like these; for better and worse!! Anyone relate to that?
But as part of the conversation with my kids around “what they learned” I shared that I am literally ALWAYS learning. It’s in my DNA, and doesn’t mean I am smarter but since I pursue knowledge constantly who knows…it might make us smarter, or it might make us more curious or interested in life. Possibly?
So, in the spirit of what I have learned this week, I thought I’d start a weekly email with that title. What I have learned might not translate to you at all, but maybe it will.
The first thing I learned is surf-related (sorry, not sorry that a lot I share will be surf-y but yet able to be translated easily). I have a few different coaches I am learning from and I think all 3-4 of them are brilliant. Some border on genius level connection with the Ocean. But all have such different approaches to essentially the same problem, which is how to surf well. Wish I could get them all in the same room and be like….guys, all of you make sense but you’re all taking completely different routes to the same endgame. Could we get on the same page? For a beginner this is a bit maddening.
It made me think of midwifery actually and how if there is a hemorrhage, at the end of the day, we want to stop the bleeding. Waxing philosophical at the moment of this emergency would not be helpful, and really who cares HOW we solve a hemorrhage if it’s effective and the mom is well. AND, sometimes it’s not about our protocol but just pure damage control. Like, we might have in our heads that we do something really non-interventive first, but if the bleed is quick and intense we might just go to swift problem solving.
Surfing is like that in so many ways; people can talk all day about how you *should* be on this place on your board or how if you *were* farther out in the ocean you wouldn’t nosedive (it’s the worst BTW) but at the end of the day or on that wave…you’re about to nosedive and nothing else matters except surviving it.
On another note, I was sent this short pandiculation video by one of my sister friends and it’s amazing. No affiliation with this guy, but I went down a brief rabbit hole about pandiculation and it’s fascinating and already part of my “somatic lady” skill set, but this is a bit different.
If you have any neck or back tension, you might try it and see what you think!
Lastly, I learned that I need a lot more salt while surfing in the summer and I am addicted to these Kona sea salt + coconut water electrolyte packets. THEY ARE SO GOOD and I crave them. Again, no affiliation with these guys either, just sharing what came into my field this week:)
I’d love to hear any cool lessons, insights or things you learned too, if you want to share. Hit reply.
Oxoxoxo
Maryn
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