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  • The stick crawl

    The stick crawl

    Take a sturdy stick and ten paces of clear ground. Crawl back and forth using these variations to clear tension and build good movement all over. Guidelines: Keep breathing. Let the breath make the pace of movement Relax your eyes. Let yourself see what your body is showing you. Avoid making noise. Noise is garbage…

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  • Notes from class: Removing the Frame

    One of the constants in life is our shape. We hold it as a given with tension and angles and our perception of horizon. Let’s dismantle this chain over us and relearn through awareness and honesty to join in battle instead of clash. Stand and with your inhale, tense the outside line of your frame.…

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  • Notes from class: Spinal Freedom

    It is as easy to forget ourselves as it is easy to wake up. Here are a progression of work to wake up our shoulders hips and spine and bring about greater freedom and health in movement and in thought. Let your breath lead the movement in both tempo and depth. Start standing with your…

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  • Working with Tension

    We are told to relax all the time. That usually does the opposite as we try to relax and create even more tension and disharmony within. Let’s play with tension instead of making it the enemy and learn to move it to our side. Do this: Start standing and tense a part of your body.…

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  • Notes from class – Invisible in plain sight

    Freedom is very tangible. You feel it, you see it, you know it. It is also one of the easiest qualities to loose by pursuing a moment of it which already lies in the past. Here are three methods to preserve ourselves from pursuing freedom and thus attaining it. The invisible touch – Touch hands…

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  • The lifetime chalange – one a day and one a week

    Here is a life chalange. Simple but with long term affect. Every day – Learn one thing – It can be a movement, a word, how to fix a machine and how to take a better photograph. Just learn at least one thing every day. Every week – Teach one thing – Teach your child…

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  • Avoiding lower back pain with daily natural movement

    Many back pain issue are a result of harmful movement patterns. We can always move towards health and well being with a little bit of consistency and awareness. Here are  movements to do before you get out of bed and before you close your eyes. They will pay forward with greater health and mobility in…

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  • How to start with Russian martial art

    The humanist movement is named so as it puts the person in the center of all things. I agree with them on this particular choice. You matter most. Divide the choice into three smaller choices and find what is right for you right now: Find the right teacher for you. It does not have to…

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  • make any work – breath work

    We walk, we talk and we move about each day without notice of our breath. We can release inner stores of ability with a tiny elevation and a bit of consistancy. Do this once a day, every day and your life and practice will elevate exponentially: Walking is now a breath practice – once a…

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  • Notes from class: Releasing the fear response

    Releasing fear response play Through play you get to know others truly but also you get to meet yourself. Here are ways to play with the fear response and move with and beyond it. Stand on one leg and close your eyes. Breathe continuously and have a partner push and shove you in any place…

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