* reverse vector is a term taken from navigation. It means the opposite direction or going back on your tracks. Ig you are rolling forward than point your fingers to where you are going. They don’t have to be rigid unless you find it useful for your movement or they can point to where you…

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There is one girl in my ballet class that has natural flexibility that is amazing. She can do the splits in the air and a bridge without effort. She is also pretty and a great person but that is not the point right now 🙂 Consider this if you are rolling and finding that you…

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To relax and learn to move freely try this. Lie down and sink each body part as you inhale or exhale into the ground. Move the neck free from the head. The forearm free from the hand or shoulder and so on. This in itself has a good effect on you but try this too…

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Try this. Relax the diagfram down and let the air come in. Let it rest inside and when you feel the time is right relax it again in the other direction. This is the least amount of effort and a very relaxing way to breath. Expand this to the rest of the body in slow…

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The fist: To grow and maintain a healthy strong hand there are many good drills. Here are a few of them: Do the static push up on the fists flat on the floor. Do not lock your elbows to keep from harming yourself and spread the mass on the whole fist. Walk on your hand…

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If you get up with stiff shoulders and tensing and relaxing them with breath still leaves some untouched spots, try this: put your hands together at the back and put them on a wall a chair or whatever can support them and let your body  lower itself and start to move in that lowered position.…

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Doors. Most of us “encounter” this contraption in many form throughout the day. Each time we go through a sliding door, a regular hinged door, a revolving door and even an electric eye door we get a chance to learn about ourselves. As you go for the handle check if you are standing in a…

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After each roll there is a get up at it’s proper time. Experiment how you do so on a regular roll over the shoulder and than add to it. Try rolling with straight legs so you end up with legs ahead of you on the ground and see if there is momentoun you can use…

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Try breathing as loudly as you can like a horrid clearing of the throat. Now slowly lessen the sound you are making till there is none, you hear and repeat. It’s the same as tensing up to learn to relax only audiobly rather than muscular. Another thing would be to open hand slap your sides…

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A very simple drill that will help you relax when working with tension and let’s face it, your own tension. Tense up the body in different forms. On the ground, hands before you and at the sides and back, head bent and so on and as you relax and breath move in a wave like…

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