So, unless you’ve been in the fitness world the abbreviation OBW might not mean much… but it is one of the most powerful, but often overlooked ways to engage the body.

OBW means Own Body Weight exercises.  Using the body itself as your gym.  It is working out and engaging fitness in its most basic form.  Simplicity is often overlooked.  OBW workouts engage the core, an example of an OBW exercise are push ups.  Many people use the gym as an excuse or as resistance to working out.  Yoga is working out through the OBW method.  We use the body as our equipment.  In a push up the core is engaged, the weight of the body becomes natural resistance, our bodies work.  No gym is necessary, no machines, nothing other than time and what you naturally have at your disposal.

We often overlook the simple things, even in our craft work we often try to make things too complex.  When there are too many moving pieces we get away from the core of our work.  OBW exercises prep the body for using machines.  Understanding where we hold energy allows us to engage magick without the dependence of tools.  OBW exercises are also foundational.  Pushups, planks, squats, dips, pull ups–these exercises are foundational to strength training.   Going back to our foundational spiritual practices allows to access a deeper power.  It helps to reconnect to our roots, and this gives us the power of foundation.  It lets us collect those parts of self that we may have forgotten were there, we can tend the garden of our spiritual experience, check the soil, and create new growth.

What are your foundational practices?

I’ll be posting some specific workout routines in the coming weeks.

You are loved.  You are Beautiful.  You are Divine.