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  • Tension release through awareness and breathing

    In this class we go over: Breath and tension awareness Sync the breath and pulse – open the gate between conscious and unconscious Body and alignment relaxation Sway and roll to grow into our own alignment Play as a higher means of expression and learning

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  • Recognizing anomalies

    A student request for drills to recognize anomalies. Especially negative ones. Take a group of people and make sure they know the safety rules and create rules of engagement to fit their physical abilities and mental preparation level. This will vary for soldier, police officers, civilians and will vary between city people and country people.

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  • Love ?

    Love ?

    I was a young sun burned soldier in the previous millennia. A conscript of the IDF infantry. We were taught in basic training to call terrorists dirties and other such names and to pursue the enemy with blinds on our eyes. Our training staff was only slightly older and their immaturity was evident in their

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  • Maintaining sanity in Chaos

    A student asked me how to act during the current stage in politics in my country, Israel. Hyenas only pray on the lone or old lion and this is the cause of current events. Many lost their lives, their health and their innocence and it is not over yet. Everyone is susceptible to poison in

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  • Turn on the off switch

    Turn on the off switch may be a confusing title. Let’s delve into it. Telling someone to relax falls on death ears. If we knew we were tense, we would relax by ourselves. For this purpose, we aim to become more aware of the base levels of tension through deliberate increase of tension and breath

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  • Strike deep but not with force

    Our bodies and minds are built with a level of tolerance. Our bodies joints, connective tissue, muscles and all other systems are built to perform in different conditions and evolution and our behavior created a biological machine with the ability to survive and even thrive in conditions that would kill many other animals on this

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  • Dangerous Games for dangerous times

    Our brains are composed of layers. They have names which carry meanings for every breathing human. The trick is to have the layers working together and not against one another. conformity, Fear, anger, pain. All of them are tools and energy to be used or discarded at the right time. We all make these choices.

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  • An antidote to fear

    Take an attack and watch each and every martial art have their own response to it. Many have similarities and all have their own twists on the answer to the question, Will this be my last day? When asked a question, we also answer it with our own filters of what exists. Our own paradigms

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  • The push vs hit question

    The mechanics of pushing and pulling are simple and obvious. We create a platform of tension whether dynamic or static using our frame and from that we use body and limbs and sometimes our heads to apply pressure extending and contracting our muscles and through our joints and bone structure. Things are more complex as

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