Month: September 2009

Start by laying on the ground with your limbs to the sides and simply breathing and relaxing on the ground. Let every part in turn press to the ground and rise from it and note how this affect the rest of you. Now do the same drill using two parts at a time and you will enjoy more freedom of movement from this.

Have a partner walk to you and walk through you using his feet a few times from all directions and do the same for him. Have your partner roll over your body without standing and than rolling but all in one sequence and avoid holding your breath. The contact will come. Look to being able to prolong any breath phase to stay comfortable and to shift the pressure within using tension selection in your various awareness locations.

Have your partner stand next to you and you move without sitting up to find ways to move and direct him using all parts of you and yes using your head as well (biting his shoes can lead to some strange looks and a case of bad breath 🙂 Next have your partner walk through you and you move to stay comfortable and in a way you can always keep moving. Avoid getting into uncomfortable positions. Next have him come to you and you while both in movement redirect his movement paying attention to his sight and spine direction. Keep breathing and avoid fixating yourself to the ground in a push. Feel where the door is already open for this type of work.

Next lie down face up and than face down and have your partner hit you from all direction using his limbs and body. Keep breathing and make yourself as comfortable as possible. Make sure you spread your awareness in your entire body and work on feeling the pulse everywhere.

Have your partner or more than one person attack you while prone and find a way to move so you are not hit. Running, throwing objects, kicking, rolling and so on. Choose to fight when you thing it is the right thing to do. Avoid letting others decide for you.

Smile.

Start with one partner standing and the other moves around him and closer and further all the time keeping at least one limb on him without any pressure and simply sliding on his or her form. Let the breath start each movement and relax your form from your joints to your tendons to your tissue. Continue to posing your partner in any way such as one arm up and repeating the drill to find how you can move inside his form and use the no eyes method as well to become more aware of your skill and different feelings here.
Continue to squatting a few centimeters and doing the same work while minding that your eyes are free to look where your body is heading (or is it the other way around) and avoiding focusing on the partner and in thus fixating and levering your own movement.
Continue to doing the same work in different heights while your partner slowly changes form and placement and now work on letting the arms and legs roll and slide on his body and limbs and head so as to release the point of contact and making it float and move around according to the movement and tension you feel in yourself and in your partner.
Continue to work where you are on one leg and find out how you can still move even if you are on one leg without leaning on your partner.
Continue to working where there is no contact between you and the partner and it is formed when you are contacted by him and after that you enter where his body is.

Remember to breath and smiling is allowed.