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stand a pace or a bit more from the wall facing either direction and lean toward the wall with your feet relaxed and flat on the ground. Let one limb move from the body to contact the wall and direct and smooth your approach until your body is relaxed against the wall. use the same…
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One person stands before you and you use your hand to turn him so he doesn’t see you. It makes sense to do so if a person is acting hostile at times. Do this drill slowly so you find where he is open to the turning and use the lightest touch of your fingertips first…
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Take a knife and start walking. hold it in different positions while keeping yourself comfortable and relaxed and see how you can work with the knife using just the body movement. Repeat the drill while sitting on your behind and moving about and also prone on the ground taking care to keep breathing and relaxing…
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Stand between two partners and have them push you using one hand or fist from one to the other and at the same time turn you to face the other. In this drill focus on avoiding breath stops to think and work with the breath and not by manipulating it so you learn to use…
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Here are a series of drills to teach the feel and idea behind one of the short work tactics: 1 Start walking using the square breathing method and matching your breaths to your heartbeats and breath (one step per pulse and expanding the breath according to the pulse count) keep your arms up in different positions…
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Start at the static push up position and have a partner lift up your feet using his hands. Your partner will walk in different directions and change directions and speed at will. You move using your body and arms and fists to remain relaxed and comfortable as possible. Remember to keep breathing and to find…
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There are physical aspects for prayers though stance is not among them because even a nice wave stance is still a constant that can be written down as an equation. Prayer comes to bring more life out of you and connect you to yourself. Prayer can come to you in the form of a vision…
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Tense the front of your neck and than the left side and the back and than the right side creating a circle of tension and relax in the opposite directions. Do this on the inhale and than on the exhale. Now bend your neck in some way and repeat the drill. Do this several times…
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The ten minutes static push up can seem intimidating and at first you may feel a lot of tension building as you fight the tension instead of releasing it with the breath. Consider this way to reaching the mark: Place a timer for ten minutes and start it. For every minute keep the static push…
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Thomas Aquinas made this argument in the 13th century, writing, “If a thing can be done adequately by means of one, it is superfluous to do it by means of several; for we observe that nature does not employ two instruments where one suffices. In short: have a partner or more come at you and…
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Sharon Friedman - Vigilance and Tranquility 