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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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Have a partner press the knife tip to you and allow the tip to move you as a whole without tensing or trying to navigate away at first. You may try to compare trying to work straight away without relaxing and feeling and note where you feel the blade run deeper. Once you clean part…
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Many times we have ideas on how to make something work and we follow through with the plan and end with nothing close to what we had in mind. It can be a good thing but consider when you learn to have the goal in mind all the time. For example if you want to…
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Have two partners hold one of your limbs and relax yourself. Feel where you tense up against their touch and simply allow the relaxation to take the punch from their hold. Breathe without stop and work on where you feel you are comfortable to move and note as well how this effects your partners in…
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Take a stick and place it over your shoulders and place your forearms on it to come over the stick and point forward. Now lie on the ground and relax. Tense and relax your body in this position and than press each part in turn into the ground while relaxing the neighboring parts. Now slowly…
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Some people are uncomfortable working with more than one partner and I wrote with on purpose. If you want to learn to move with more than one body start by moving them yourself. have two partners hold your arms sitting or standing and you move your body with the breath to learn to move them…
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In most public spaces today we have many reflective surfaces like mirrors, clean shiny glass and metal and lots more. Walk slowly and without moving your head to look observe in how many ways you are visible around you. Note that many people can see you without looking at you by seeing your reflection. Now…
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Take a very deep inhale starting with the diaphragm adding the inter-coastal muscles (your ribs) and ending with your shoulders. Feel and sense how your body shape and tension is affected through this and slowly exhale in the reverse fashion. Repeat the drill with a fist or the end of a stick pressed into you…
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Sharon Friedman - Vigilance and Tranquility 