She smiled softly. 

"There's more dynamic options, later on - formations carved from spiritual energy is something I've heard some Spirit Venerables can do, and it's possible to do things with ink control techniques or manipulating metal and earth to form things, and weird kinda spatial tricks besides like what's in here, and I'm sure a bunch of other things to make it fast and easy, if you look." 

She taps her finger against her chest. 

"But I see what you mean." 

There's a faint sense of her breath falling into a pattern as she breathes with her, and a bit of extra strength trickling into her body, if she looks.

Hailey raised an eyebrow at the touch, then closed her eyes and focused on the sensation and rhythm of her breath, and her body and energy. She stilled her legs and attended to the motion of her lungs, her breath, and her energy.

She smiles gently as her thumb glides across her palm. 

"I suppose I'm skipping ahead a little but..." 

She hums lyrically beside her, her breath still following the pattern. 

"Breathing is a pretty fundamental part of cultivation and meditation. There's so many little ways that your rhythm flows from your breath, and it's something physical that you can control pretty manually to let everything else fall into place as you experience the world. Feel the way your heartbeat changes, the little extra trickle of energy running into you, and the little way that things clear because of the freshness in the air. This is a pretty good spot for it, so you won't nesscarily be able to get these results everywhere, but it can be a guide for you in memory, still." 

Hailey nodded, smiling, and let the smooth flow of the air in and hour of her lungs. Her heart beat steadily in her chest, clear and strong. The air was fresh and sweet. Her energy flowed smoothly, song of the run still humming softly, gentle trickle of energy flowing in. The experience of the moment slowly etched brighter and clearer in her mind.

"There we go." 

She squeezed her hand gently yet firmly. 

"I'd like it if we could go on a little walk around here and talk to you a bit about the way that it blends into things in situations beyond just sitting down and focusing all your attention on it." 

Hailey stood up with a smile and a nod, taking her time to maintain her smooth breathing as she did. She kept hold of Romana's hand, and looked toward a gap between the trees that started a natural-looking path.

"How about this way?"

She lost the rhythm for a moment, but picked it back up.

"Sounds lovely." 

She rises and walks hand in hand, a little tingle spreading through her hand that calms the slight fluctuation that runs through her as her breath hitches. 

"There's a lot of different ways to think about walking meditation. The first one, and probably what you thought of when I mentioned the idea, is more or less the same sort of thing as sitting meditation, where you have the extra focus beyond just your breath of the cadence of your steps, having the two cycling together, gradually pulling together into a more harmonious state as you watch the world around you go by." 

Hailey nodded softly, considering her stride more fully, then drawing back to her breath, gradually discovering a rhythm between the two as she walked, the gentle motion steadying her enough that in some ways the breathing was even easier to maintain than sitting. The gentle nudges from her mentor certainly didn't hurt, though. She looked around at the well-kept trees and bushes along the path, smiling.

She smiled back, and let the silence fill the air for a while. 

She nodded, satisfied, after a short while. 

"It can also be useful to think of it as something a bit more then that, though. That each breath and step you take is something more substantial, part of your practice and path, guided by your instincts of how to fight and how to move, and of course..." 

She squeezes her hand gently. 

"How to calm your thoughts, and stay in the moment. It takes a while before it becomes natural, but it's worth taking the time to make the way you move natively bleed together with how you step when you need the precision, just to get it down automatically and keep your form in place for when you need it." 

What a thought! Every step and breath was part of the road forward, part of her growth and refinement. She stepped just a bit lighter and smoother, and smiled warmly at Romana, nodding.

"It's a traditional part of this sort of art especially, so you should take a moment to feel what your technique has, there, both in the fist technique and the meditation sub-section."