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  • Notes from class: moving tension

    RELAX is a horrible word. Most times we tense up when we hear it or think it because we add more activation without intention. Let us take another road and that will make all the difference. Let us make natural tension our friend. It serves a purpose and keeps us upright. It can be a…

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  • Time is everywhere

    Busy ? Time is what you make it. Make time work for you. Brush your teeth ? Stand on one leg and close your eyes. Move your head and let the excess move out. Walking to the bus or car ? Do a breath pyramid and walk softly. Sitting at work ? Tense and relax…

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  • Notes from class: Sight and body movement

    It is easy to focus on something out of the norm. Notice the everyday things so your vision is not guided but floating. Look forward and tense and relax different parts of your face. Note how tension and relaxing affects your sight and exhale to let go of excess. Place one hand in front of…

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  • Nine books to read before the storm

    There is knowledge that is good for an instance and there is awareness and ability that makes an instance. The Good Psychopath’s Guide to Success This book glimpses on thought process in a different and goal oriented way. It will be beneficial to know and sometimes practice the approach within these pages. The Quiet Professional   This book glimpses…

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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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