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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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Take two round car mirrors (the small curved mirrors people glue to their side mirrors for a better view) and hold one in each hand. Now learn to check all the surface of your body for anything that might need care. This requires some hand eye coordination on your part and can be taken and…
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Take a shoe lace and tie your ankles together with enough distance for one step forward. Now move around a bit. Walk in all directions, turn and see how you handle yourself in this. Sit down and roll around and make use of what you have to keep mobile. Now with a partner move away…
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Sit on your behind and raise your soulders as your arms are relaxed. Now tense up the shoulders slowly till they are very tense and now start to move the torso and head relaxed from side to side and arch forward and backwards as the shoulders remain tensed up. Note how the arms move in…
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Anger takes you away from the basics of feeling and acting on your own wishes. To calm oyurself down you need to return to the basics and taking them away is a good way to bring your awareness back to them. Stand and hold your breath, Tense the part of your body where you feel…
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Stand upright and breathe. Feel your chest and stomach moving and notice how they move and in what directions throughout the action. Now slowly relax and release the tension from the top of the spine to the base of the hips letting the head and than torso curve forward and relax at the end of…
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Stand on one foot and relax. Shake your body and free leg and move so it doens’t effect the leg on the ground. Now balance on the heel and than on the foot a few moments and relax in each position. Now close your eyes and count out loud to 300 breaths and relax again.…
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Sharon Friedman - Vigilance and Tranquility 