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Place a stick over your spine and press it to it using both arms. Now start moving the stick using your spine and see in how many directions and ways you can do this. Note how this affects your limbs and head and work so your breath leads the movement. To relax sit on your…
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Note that your posture affects your mood and energy in the same way that your mood affects your posture. If the face is relaxed it is easier to relax within and if the spine is bent forward and the shoulders fall it is hard to see the heavens and see the birds overhead. Pay attention…
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Take any movement from winding your wristwatch to rolling and do it on the inhale allowing the movement to be withing this phase completely from start to finish, Repeat for the exhale and the pause and remember to avoid rushing through the movement and allowing yourself to relax even if you panic a bit. Accept…
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Take a couple of partners and run this drill session: First have both partners walk through you with a fist to the body and you simply move to avoid getting hit while focusing on keeping breathing. Next place both hands at the back of the neck and repeat the drill with the focus of keeping…
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Start in the static push up and for a few breaths move your ankles so your entire body moves from the legs and you relax your fist so the fingers and palm feel the tension move through them and allow the arm to align as a total so you are always aligned and relaxed. Have…
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Patience is a great quality in life when applied properly, as a teacher you must let the student create his own body of knowledge even if you think you see the way ahead of time and as a student you must avoid mimicking the teachers movement which seems more affective than your own movement. The…
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When you roll consider that two forces are pushing or pulling you in different directions (or more than two) and relax and allow your body to find the logical solution while staying as relaxed and aligned as possible so you can continue to move and breath freely. For example if you are pushed back in…
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Note to yourself that the inhale is also a way to suck tension from your body and prepare it the exhale. If you inhale and allow your body to tense up from the rising pressure within it will damage your health and movement a lot. Freedom lies in recognizing the tension within and letting it…
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Don’t think about the end when you do the work. Shortcuts tend to cut us short. Think of a knife moving and reaching the resting spot of it’s movement and the same blade getting cut short on it’s path. When does it make more sense to guide it and from which point in the trajectory…
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Start by taking a friend by hand or arm and walk with him in a crowded place like a grocery store or a busy street and your job is to avoid hitting your partner into any person or object. Change places and work this drill closing first the eye you shoot less with (guns, balls…
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Sharon Friedman - Vigilance and Tranquility 