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A simple thing: Put both hands at shoulder width on the ground and now go to the ground as low as you can superman style. Now pass the entire body through your hands and the ground with no lifting of hands and extend to your comfort level (no use to brag in the hospital) and…
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Pulse awareness: Start by staying at a position you are cmfortable in. On the ground, sitting or standing up. Feel for the pulse with your hand on your temples, sides of neck or heart (positioned from the middle of the chest and to your left) if you can do this without the hand it’s better…
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A few things from this sting in the bush: Your health: so many people injure themselves with improper tightness and weak ligements and tendons it’s amazing to watch. It becomes even more apparent in times of strife but the healthy survive. Not the big and so called strong. Be modest and a small target. Drawing…
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concepts and body movement: For example instead of bringing your shoulders up relax the back muscles and let the inhale bring your chest up. Instead of bringing your shoulders back bring your hips below your shoulders as you get up or stand and as you sit bring your feet under your seat to better get…
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Intension: Movement wise systema isn’t all that different than other arts. It is the intension that makes the difference. Take for example the 5 minutes push up drill. If you do it to learn to soften your fists on the ground, breath away tension in the back and calm than it serves a purpose. If…
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Pity: to feel for another person in trouble is a human thing but to take pity takes away from both of you. he feels another human sees him as less and you consider your fellow man below you. Both pride and humiliation bring an imbalance that leads us as usuall to a morphed look on…
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Learning the value of breath and whole body movement is easy to show. Start by hopping on one leg and holding your breath with a limp body. Advance to hopping along your breath and you may find that it actually lifts you up. From that go to hopping with an upright posture and see how…
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A nice bit about hitting and taking hits. Try this in a group of three and stand in a row two facing each other and one behind the other. Start by hitting each other a few times and than have the back guy hit the person in front of him with the intent on the…
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working body and mind mobility progress using the joint freedom and aliveness. Strat by leaning on a wall or a person and keeping the base of one finger on him/it start to rotate the body so you use it as a pivot point and go back and forth in different ways. For example going to…
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Try to move smoothly like a man going to sleep after a long day. No unnecesary power and no unneeded movement. Consider how making fast jerky movements agitate the person you are working with and actually cover less space than a smooth unhurried movement.
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Sharon Friedman - Vigilance and Tranquility 