Monkey bars for oxygen

It’s not about having buff shoulders, it’s about oxygen

“The ability to hold one’s own body weight from one’s arms has a direct impact on how much oxygen the body takes in and how much the lungs inflate with each breath.”

Katy Bowman, blog post from May 12, 2011, ‘ABCs, BABY VERSION’

Wow.

I’ve always wanted buff shoulders. I’ve only just started thinking about how much oxygen I can take in at any one time. Isn’t that crazy?

Drills:

Hanging from the at-home adventure playground (ouch! how my raw hands)

and

No-breath butterfly! (It’s actually the best way to keep my body flat in the water.)

But maybe as well as being able to survive deep, long wipeouts and miles of butterfly I will also look like Sarah Connor in Terminator II.

Altogether more glamorous than my at-home adventure playground: magical tree sea place by Kigamboni beach in Dar Es Salaam where we were lucky enough to visit last weekend

About me

Deborah Kasia Krupski

I'm a writer and editor by professional background and mover and shaker by calling. A student of awakening through the body with Aries in my fifth house, I focus on mindful strength training and natural movement alongside restorative approaches, having studied with a variety of schools and practitioners (from Katy Bowman to Venus Lau). I am fascinated by a diversity of approaches to health and wellness, as well as all forms of growing, preparing, and eating delicious food (a confessed cacao addict). I hope that working to support the health of the earth and its creatures is an upcoming step on my journey but I have yet to find a way to do that while keeping a roof over this dreaming head and a meal in front of this ravenous mouth. If you've found the secret, give me a call. My career so far has specialised into corporate communications roles, often within large, complex organisations. I'm proud to have orchestrated behind-the-scenes-events at London's Old Vic (at the time involving Kevin Spacey but apparently we don't talk about him anymore); running the lighting board for shows at the Jersey Opera House in my youth; teaching English as a Foreign Language in both Europe and Asia - with eight months of leading classes high and low in Barcelona as a hardcore initiation; convening Girls Make Waves delegations in Asia (not supposed to speak for itself); and leading Stand Up Paddle tours through the backwaters of Kerala (before I realised that at the age of 36 it was a strange career move). I'll do anything that lights my fire but right now I'll mostly be sinking into presence and contemplating revolutions, within, without, and between (nod to Dr Daniel Siegel). View my full profile on LinkedIn or contact me directly here.

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