Rollin' with My Homies 🛹

Happy good day, Reader 💜

Allow me to introduce you to Lloyd Kahn — a most fantastic role model and inspiration.

Lloyd is 91 and has been skateboarding since he was in his 60s. If you have 20 minutes, watch or listen to this video and soak up all his wisdom around body movement, fun, and taking care of yourself. I fell in love with him.

I've recently taken up skateboarding and am learning how to do it in my 40s (which is wild! and scary! and fun!), and so (of course) I've been checking out skateboarding videos, and Lloyd is one of the ways the algorithms really delivered.

If you don't have the 20 minutes to check out the video, Lloyd basically talks about how continuously learning new things, not letting age dictate what you do, moving your body, and eating good food help him maintain an awesome and quality life. And damn — he has it spot on. He does bite-sized movements, makes them fun, grows a lot of his own food, and keeps his mind and life active.

That's a magic recipe.

In the constant see-sawing back and forth between overstimulation and numbing out we experience, mental and energetic balance is so beyond necessary that the word important doesn't even begin to describe it. We need play and fun and ways to engage our whole beings that make us feel alive and craving more.

It's so easy when we feel drained to potato it on the couch and scroll, and today I'm going to invite you to fight that urge just once to give it a try. Instead of that, get up and find something fun to physically do. Maybe your fun is jumping jacks or dancing silly or cleaning out a cabinet or walking around the block. Whatever it is, do it for just a few minutes. Make it accessible instead of dreadful. Don't let that executive dysfunction get you down.

And then see how you feel afterwards. You still might be tired, but you are likely going to be a different kind of tired. A kind where maybe you grin because you feel a little joy. A little more rejuvenated on your insides. And if you do, show up and do it again. And again. And again.

I promise it makes a huge difference in your presence of mind and heart.

And, as an added bonus if you dig movies like me, for those times when you really only can lay flat for rest, check out a feel good movie recommended Lloyd to lift your spirits. This is a solid list with some treasures on it. If you dig that and want to check out more good words from Lloyd, peep his Substack.

Until next time, dumplings — with all the good energy ✨

PS! Check out my dope board! Her name is Betsy!

Welcome to Zenful Mindings

I'm Brianne, a trauma-informed yoga & somatics facilitator, Reiki practitioner, and mindfulness advocate. I teach body literacy to help people cultivate a stronger sense of self, autonomy, and connection to their inner wisdom.

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