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  • Question kit for the day after

    Gear is good. Knowledge is better. A frame of mind is both. Who am I ? Do you define by history ? training ? belonging to a tribe or culture ? Perhaps values 🙂 What do I not see ? A shadow can be cast by many things and nothing at all. Questioning the projection…

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  • Breath meditation – The long sixty

    Place your body in the push up position on your fists. Keep your torso aligned and breathe. Count sixty breaths as slowly as your body allows. Feel each phase of breathing and only move on when the need arises. Let your pulse come into your awareness all over the body. Let the tension leave naturally…

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  • Captured in your mind

    Your leg is caught by your opponent and you try to pull it back. Your arms are caught by two tall smelly guys in an alley and you try to squirm free. You are caught first in your mind. Let us reverse engineer this paradigm into something that works a shorter route with less derailment…

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  • Notes from class: Making choices

    It is evident that as we use our muscles and nervous system well, they get better and we move and work in better efficiency and effectiveness. Let us use the same simple but not easy mechanism to improve our awareness to making choices (lead the chariot instead of being one of the horses) and making…

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  • Notes from class: Horizons

    We walk and look in lines as we are taught. We naturally walk and see in arches and the hold the horizon and gravity has on us amounts to a great lever on our movement. Here are a series of plays to release the hold we manifest from our perception of the horizon and gravity.…

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  • Ten movements for a healthy mobile back

    Here are ten movements that will ease you into greater mobility and health. They require a little bit of time and not extra equipment.   The turning turtle – Place yourself on your back and raise all limbs in the air including your head. Breathe and move all your limbs and body to turn back…

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  • Notes from Class: levers holds And joint manipulation

    There are countless holds levers and ways to manipulate the joints. There are however a few ways to play with the body to bring our  innate knowledge into awareness. That way we are able to create those on the move and without trying to force one way over the other. Principles for the play: Our…

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  • Fix the chain

    Fix the chain

    Everyone is strong at something. You could be very good in one or two things but we are all lacking in some attributes. Our minds, bodies and hearts are interconected and each affects the other and the same goes for our small groups of families, workplaces and societies. Lets take the body as an example.…

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  • The miracle of a minute a day

    You can read a book at one minute a day. You can learn a new skill in one minute a day. Your can stay healthy in one minute a day. You can grow your wealth in one minute a day. Choose to invest a little instead of spending. Choose to read the bible or another…

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  • Choose wisely

    Choose wisely

    We are raised with a set of beliefs we are supposed to operate by and thus succeed in being a part of current society and maintain the status qua. Let’s ask a few questions and see where that leads us as people  instead of cogs in the grand machine. There is a beginning and an…

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