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This is a good drill to unwind the body after a long time with armour or heavy gear on or just a lot of standing. Lie on your back and bring the knees to the stomach. bring the feet toward the head and grasp the bottom of the toes with your hands. Now breath in…
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Walk with your eyes closed and arms overhead. Have partenrs stnad in your way in various ways and hights and have them place things in your way like boxes bags and the like and note how you react and how you change your reaction as time passes. Later start on one side of the location…
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Have a partenr hold your foot or place it in a loop hung on a post or wall and find out how you can do full circles both ways. Try with and without sitting down to turn the rest of the way and find your own way to get from A to B. Squat with…
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Looking at things from the other end. Consider wall walking. You walk with your fists up and down the wall and most of the time your head is in your fists. Do the drill with the focus on the placement of the feet and the support the body gives through its needed form along the…
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In the army we were tested on going through the drills and shooting our rifles and other tools with a coin balanced on the end of the barrel and so on. You can do the same for yourself and balance a coin or anything else on the back of your hand as you walk and…
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It is very easy to get cought in the beauty of the motion and to force smooth round movement even when there is no need or purpose for them. Try to swing something heavy and strange in shape. A garden chair (not near your mothers glass collection) will do as you first swing it around…
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Learning from mistakes and accidents is a good way to keep your spirits and keep moving. A bad fall where you bang your head can either make you feel sorry for yourself or help you learn more about how you move. For example if you slide or jump forward and cling to the footing of…
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To ready your nervous system for work without movement, feel the blood flow in each hand finger seperately and than move through the section of your face as you understand (chin, cheeks, forehead) and become aware of the tactile information it gives you. If you can do the same for each toe seperately and than…
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When you go to hit the neck, the head or anything overhead there is a tendency to raise the shoulder even if you don’t need to. Try to move so only the parts you need are activated (the same as using the least amount of tension to keep upright and to move) Start by raising…
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Take a staff or any other long tool you can think of and place the end on your partner or an object you can use for this like an old soda and so on. Push your partner with the end and learn to relax and feel through the tool where your partner is aware and…
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Sharon Friedman - Vigilance and Tranquility 