A live excerpt with Mariane Karou on the courage it takes simply to breathe and feel. The practice centres on the solar plexus, the soft area between your lower ribs where fear is often held, and on full exhales that free whatever you are holding. You keep finding a way of moving that opens this area, so you can move with fear rather than being strangled by it or numb to it, and you learn your own edge of letting go by feeling inside, never by watching anyone else. Mariane teaches the first parts of her movement map: the fish, which is feeling, and the bird, the awareness that notices when a story in your head is re-triggering the fear. Everybody quits, she says; the skill is coming back, gently, like a puppy in training. It closes on the courageous leader: you lead by letting go, both to feel and to do.
