How did PT Tom and I come to book a boxing lesson with another PT in Pure Gym?
I believe it went something like this…
‘Wow’; – whilst watching Amar instructing a boxing PT session
‘That looks such fun’!
Tom ‘Have you ever done it before’
Me ‘Anadi was teaching me during lockdown in the living room’!
‘I loved it’!
Both of us: ‘Shall we have a go…’.
I imagine our pre Christmas singing duet of Shallow in the gym must have gone something like that too; although no one else was singing…!
However people are often doing boxing training with Amar! It’s very inspiring to watch…
My Dad was a boxer – he taught my sister Rosy and me to shadow box when we were little…
And to fall well!
Something I have been grateful for every time I have fallen whilst out running, and over the years the falls have added up…!
The moment I’ve known there is ‘no way back’ – I have relaxed and let go
Surrendered to the flow
The fall
And in the space between upright and the crash to the ground I have always glimpsed eternity…
Once I fell downhill on a rocky path in St Lucia… In trying to save the fall I was running quite fast on impact, but although the rocks grazed me hard, and my body was shaken about, nothing was broken… !
Except maybe a very painful and bent little finger, which was pulled back into alignment by a man who emerged from the bush having seen my tumble. He administered to my cuts with Aloe Vera straight from the tree, and he gave my finger a wrench to straighten it…
I nearly fainted with the pain, and I was lying down…!
So this is how boxing came to be in my being…
We watched Barry McGuigan win a big fight once as a family – and my Dad often recounted stories of when he was ‘fighting fit’… He told of how once, he was hit so hard that he was knocked right out of his body…
He said he watched for awhile from the sidelines, and his body carried on – on its own – before he re joined it…
To fight on.
Tom’s and my lesson with Amar was such fun…
Unleashing the inner warrior in us both!
And the dancer
‘Boxing is dancing’ Amar said, as we bounced around
Jab jab hook – undercut!
‘Left jab right jab… twenty times! One, two, three, four, five, six…
Faster faster…’ Called Amar
It was a wonderful feeling to release the warrior spirit, and to have such a wonderful time doing so
Accessing all the different energies within us, discovering archetypes that are us, that may not have had enough airtime is all part of experiencing this amazing journey
This life in form…