WHAT
What does your body need you to take care of?
Working with the body is more than exercise.
Your body has different needs — some universal, some specific, some internal, and some connected to the way you live.
Kurma Life organizes these needs into four dimensions of daily body care.
Together, they help you take care of the body not only during practice, but throughout your life.
DAILY ESSENTIALS
What your body needs every day.Some things are fundamental to the body regardless of your age, lifestyle, or level of fitness.
Movement.
Breathing.
Circulation.
Mobility.
Stability.
Decompression.
Rest.
Daily Essentials help you maintain the basic functions the body depends on every day.
They don't necessarily require a long workout.
They require regular attention.
MOVE · BREATHE · MOBILIZE · STABILIZE
BODY MAINTENANCE
Give attention where it is needed.Every body develops its own patterns.
Your work, injuries, training, habits, repetitive positions, age, and lifestyle can create areas that need more specific attention.
Feet and ankles.
Hips and pelvis.
Spine.
Chest and ribs.
Shoulders.
Neck and jaw.
Body Maintenance means recognizing those areas and working with them before restriction and compensation continue to accumulate.
You don't maintain everything equally.
You maintain what needs maintaining.
NOTICE · ADDRESS · MAINTAIN
SELF-REGULATION
Learn to change your state.The body is not only muscles, joints, and movement.
Your breathing, muscle tone, nervous system, attention, energy, and emotional state are continuously interacting.
Sometimes you need activation.
Sometimes you need to slow down.
Sometimes you need to release unnecessary tension or return to a more neutral state.
Through movement, stillness, breathing, sensation, and attention, you learn to participate in the regulation of your own system.
Not by forcing yourself into a particular state --
but by learning how to respond to the state you are actually in.
FEEL · REGULATE · RETURN
IN EVERY WAY OF BEING
Bring awareness into how you live.Your body does not stop adapting when practice ends.
It is adapting while you sit.
While you stand.
While you walk.
While you drive.
While you work.
While you train.
While you rest.
Even the way you hold your phone, breathe at your desk, stand in line, or carry tension during a difficult conversation becomes part of your body's experience.
This dimension is about bringing what you learn in practice into every position and every movement of everyday life.
Because the other hours of your day matter too.
SIT · STAND · MOVE · LIVE
THE FOUR DIMENSIONS WORK TOGETHER
These are not four separate programs.
They are four ways of caring for one body.
DAILY ESSENTIALS
Take care of what your body needs every day.
BODY MAINTENANCE
Give additional attention where it is needed.
SELF-REGULATION
Learn to recognize and influence your internal state.
IN EVERY WAY OF BEING
Bring awareness into the way you live.
You may emphasize one more than another at a particular moment.
But together they create something much larger than an exercise routine.
They create an ongoing relationship with your body.
Take care of the whole system — every day, in every way.
CONTINUE TO HOW →
What does your body need you to take care of?
Working with the body is more than exercise.
Your body has different needs — some universal, some specific, some internal, and some connected to the way you live.
Kurma Life organizes these needs into four dimensions of daily body care.
Together, they help you take care of the body not only during practice, but throughout your life.
DAILY ESSENTIALS
What your body needs every day.Some things are fundamental to the body regardless of your age, lifestyle, or level of fitness.
Movement.
Breathing.
Circulation.
Mobility.
Stability.
Decompression.
Rest.
Daily Essentials help you maintain the basic functions the body depends on every day.
They don't necessarily require a long workout.
They require regular attention.
MOVE · BREATHE · MOBILIZE · STABILIZE
BODY MAINTENANCE
Give attention where it is needed.Every body develops its own patterns.
Your work, injuries, training, habits, repetitive positions, age, and lifestyle can create areas that need more specific attention.
Feet and ankles.
Hips and pelvis.
Spine.
Chest and ribs.
Shoulders.
Neck and jaw.
Body Maintenance means recognizing those areas and working with them before restriction and compensation continue to accumulate.
You don't maintain everything equally.
You maintain what needs maintaining.
NOTICE · ADDRESS · MAINTAIN
SELF-REGULATION
Learn to change your state.The body is not only muscles, joints, and movement.
Your breathing, muscle tone, nervous system, attention, energy, and emotional state are continuously interacting.
Sometimes you need activation.
Sometimes you need to slow down.
Sometimes you need to release unnecessary tension or return to a more neutral state.
Through movement, stillness, breathing, sensation, and attention, you learn to participate in the regulation of your own system.
Not by forcing yourself into a particular state --
but by learning how to respond to the state you are actually in.
FEEL · REGULATE · RETURN
IN EVERY WAY OF BEING
Bring awareness into how you live.Your body does not stop adapting when practice ends.
It is adapting while you sit.
While you stand.
While you walk.
While you drive.
While you work.
While you train.
While you rest.
Even the way you hold your phone, breathe at your desk, stand in line, or carry tension during a difficult conversation becomes part of your body's experience.
This dimension is about bringing what you learn in practice into every position and every movement of everyday life.
Because the other hours of your day matter too.
SIT · STAND · MOVE · LIVE
THE FOUR DIMENSIONS WORK TOGETHER
These are not four separate programs.
They are four ways of caring for one body.
DAILY ESSENTIALS
Take care of what your body needs every day.
BODY MAINTENANCE
Give additional attention where it is needed.
SELF-REGULATION
Learn to recognize and influence your internal state.
IN EVERY WAY OF BEING
Bring awareness into the way you live.
You may emphasize one more than another at a particular moment.
But together they create something much larger than an exercise routine.
They create an ongoing relationship with your body.
Take care of the whole system — every day, in every way.
CONTINUE TO HOW →
