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Pressing tension
We are so used to pain and tension that we do not even know how it is possible to live without it. One example is the high level of tension in the legs and how it affects the hips turnout and our mobility and general health. The way to press this excess out of the…
Meditation with a meat hook
There are lessons that can be taught by words and others that require experience to blend together, thought, feeling and sensation. One such lesson is that of the meat hook or any hook once it sinks in our flesh or makes that needle like entrance in our skin. I recall no fondly moving through the…
In praise of TENSION
Tension is vilified. Tension is maligned. Tension is vital to everyone’s life. Working with tension is vital to all martial. Resisting partners, heavy tools, hard ground. All these promote our awareness to our own tension and when to use it and when to discard the tension or in my own phrasing, the structure of tension.…