Sharon Friedman – Vigilance and Tranquility

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  • simple and effective movement drills

    simple and effective movement drills

    Here are simple and effective movement drills with no weights or gadgets or a T shirt to buy. Just listen to yourself and keep healthy and moving.

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  • hitting like a rope

    hitting like a rope

    If you have ever worked on a sailboat, you know to be weary of a rope on the loose. In these two videos we show how to both unleash and recoil this rope within ourselves. Keep safe and see each other as people instead of targets.

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  • Natural movement on the ground and standing up series 2

    Natural movement on the ground and standing up series 2

    In these two series, we will explore the keys to returning to our natural movement. This will bring the body to balance and freedom alike and open new wells of creativity and ability in the diligent explorer. In this stage we have: standing hip twist and ground Psoas bend

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  • Natural movement on the ground and standing up series 1

    Natural movement on the ground and standing up series 1

    In these two series, we will explore the keys to returning to our natural movement. This will bring the body to balance and freedom alike and open new wells of creativity and ability in the diligent explorer. In this stage we have: standing hip relaxation and ground turning

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  • cutting the tension

    cutting the tension

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  • Footless and handless

    Footless and handless

    This drill helps in getting past the push/pull movement and into moving ourselves as one unit. Continuous attention to this practice will give you more fluidity in motion and thought. Solo version: Sit and start moving from one side of the area to the other with no contact with the ground with either your feet

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  • Ten simple ways to avoid violence

    Ten simple ways to avoid violence

    1.       MAKE FRIENDS – it is nice to have people watch your back and it is easier to fight a group when you are a part of a group yourself. 2.       BE IN THE MOMENT – Consider what you will say in the interview or how to plot your course in the night operation but

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  • The pistol squat

    The pistol squat

    Here are a series of drills for an easy transition from ground to standing and moving. The hard work is paying attention. Move like a human and things will go your way.

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  • TEN COMMANDMENTS OF CONTINOUS LEARNING

    TEN COMMANDMENTS OF CONTINOUS LEARNING

    Know there is a solution but remember it may not be in the direction you cast your nets. Find joy in the little steps and letting the work make up the form of the whole. Be consistent in paying attention to detail. Let your point of view evolve with your work. Every part of the

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  • The performer and the martial artist

    The performer and the martial artist

    It is a given statement to almost everyone that you have to push and pull to move people and that you need support for this effort. We are modeled as pulleys and beams, elastic and hard and it is all true but we are ignoring three simple things. The first is that we are dynamic

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