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Walk down a street and try to notice if a person is right handed or left handed. Some are ambidextrous so take note of that too. You can check from time to time by asking a question and offering a map for orientation. Remember another person can do the same for you and put you…
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to learn to be aware of the distance you move during a roll and to control it roll without walking. This means you take a few minutes (10) to roll without walking. You stand and roll and come back to a standing position without any steps. Move like this from spot to spot and relax…
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Have a partner take a heavy stick and have him move it in hitting moves very close to your body. Tense up and hold your breath as he does this to become aware of the natural fear reaction in the body. After you do this for him as well keep tensing up but breathe normally…
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Place your fist in front of you and try to relax it as much as you can without changing form. Now tense it all the way slowly with breathing and keep it like this for a few breaths. Do this a few times and than change the position of the arm and repeat. Now take…
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Take a stick the size of a broom stick and press on the ends in both palms. Sit on a chair and see how you can move while still pressing on the stick and note what you can see around you. If you can, have a friend move around you and move so you always…
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Take a stick and a telephone pole or something that can serve as an obstacle (a whole is also something and the lack of ground or sound can tell you a lot about what is around you) and work with a partner using a stick to check how you can use the stick to control…
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Take all your shoes and sandles and put them on one by one. With each pair sit down and get up without using your hands in at least two different ways and than do the same as you hold a stick behind you with your elbow pits. This is a very silly thing to do…
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Another way to align your spine and the four points of shoulders and hips is to stand and walk as you imagine your arm pulling and lifting a heavy load like buckets of water. This will naturally align your spine to carry the load without harming yourself and relax the shoulders and spine accordingally. If…
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Lie on the ground and roll a bit to unwind it. Now as you inhale press the back of your head to the ground while keeping the rest of the body stays relaxed and relax completely on the exhale. Now press in order the back of the neck, the spine between the shoulder blades, the…