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take a not too sharp a knife or a pencil and stab your partner swiftly. When you work slowly many times you will lie to yourself and let it sink a bit before you move. You need to be aware of your movement all the time (breathing) and choose your action in a way that…
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Place your palm on your partners chest and have him strike you slowly. Feel his movement through the contact and move so you are not hurt. Remember to choose your action rather than react and to keep relaxed. Have him work on hitting you without resorting to the right left pendulum so you don’t develop…
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Work in tensing and relaxing your body parts and in waves and in whole in steps. Count five heart beats to full tension and five to relaxation and let the count rise so you learn to control even small amounts of tension. Another drill for this is to try to increase the tension more and…
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Have a partner come to hit you and move away with your body and with turn of your body relax the shoulders and let the arm swing and hit his arm relaxed. The purpose is not deflect since you moved away but to make him think about himself and through the strike concentrate tension in…
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Lace your fingers lightly over the back of your neck and make it so the shoulders are relaxed and the hands are not touching the back of the neck. Stand and lift your knee slowly to chest level and down a few times and notice how your posture and alignment change. Now climb a flight…
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A bit of water training: Stand in the water at mid thigh depth and walk. Start slowly and try to make as little a wave as you can. If you have a partner have him close his eyes and sense your arrival. This is a good way to learn to walk softly. Next walk or…
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Tension is a form of movement in stasis
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Have a partner place his hand on you and push. Move that part of you which is in contact with his hand away from the hand and note how this effects his movements in different ways. Now repeat and instead of moving away press that part or move as a whole in an angle to…
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Lie on the ground with a partner at arm’s length and have him push you with one hand. Move with the direction of the push and add to this by using your body to turn and twist him. For example if you are both on your backs and he places and pushes your chest you…
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Stand comfortably and lace your fingers behind your neck but without them touching the back of the neck. relax your knees and hips and walk around a bit as you keep avoiding this contact and keeping the shoulders and neck as relaxed as possible. Now squat as much as you can down while keeping this…
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Sharon Friedman - Vigilance and Tranquility 