A GUIDE TO HELP THE BODY TO RID ITSELF OF SICKNESS BREATHE – Inhale and exhale through the nose for better control and filtration. Let each next breath come to you by listening to the body needs and you will breathe more calmly and be more connected to what your body is telling you.… Read More LETTING SICKNESS OUT THE DOOR
We understand machines. There are defined lines of compression and depression, there are defined lines of movement and there is a defined intent to each and every part. Let us consider a less obvious machine. Let us explore the key to that machine and breathe-move our way to endless intuition. We begin on the ground as… Read More Notes from class: Spinal fluidity
Once you can feel yourself breathing, you can open your sphere to connecting to others on the basic level. This applies to bodywork, to martial art and simply being aware. Place your open hand on your partner and feel them breathing. It is easy on the chest area and more challenging in the limbs… Read More Breathing is a bridge
Here are proven methods of increasing the ability of hands and fingers. They come to make us more capable and less fragile in a world of impact and shearing. Make yourself strong so you can do the work you want done. Hanging on rough surfaces – We all hanged on rounded bars on gym classes.… Read More Strong hands
All the power in our bodies come out once punctured well. It is well illustrated in a crowd where we cannot pay attention to all individuals and must swim in streams of perceptions and assumptions. We can grow as people from accepting and moving from this feeling of a small fish in the ocean. Step… Read More Swim with the sharks
We break weather we overload our spine or if we completely avoid loading it. Being smart about it will keep us both able and mobile. Let’s start. Make your breath the regulator of beginning and end. The tempo setter. Stand a step away from the wall and place the top of your head on it… Read More Notes from Class: Save your back
Boom Boom Boom is what we expect from a fight scene in a movie or even a knife fight. There is a reason historical swords and harness (plate and shield) are lighter than what we use today. In a fight it is about letting yourself in without letting yourself get hammered. Begin with giving permission… Read More Notes from Class: Letting yourself in
Here is a progression of games to play. They come to bring to light the virtue of continuity and as a quality to change your encounters from collisions to freedom within the meelee. Have a partner place a fist or foot on you. Tense and then relax your frame to achieve two goals. First… Read More Notes from Class: Continuity
Place your body in the push up position on your fists. Keep your torso aligned and breathe. Count sixty breaths as slowly as your body allows. Feel each phase of breathing and only move on when the need arises. Let your pulse come into your awareness all over the body. Let the tension leave naturally… Read More Breath meditation – The long sixty
Your leg is caught by your opponent and you try to pull it back. Your arms are caught by two tall smelly guys in an alley and you try to squirm free. You are caught first in your mind. Let us reverse engineer this paradigm into something that works a shorter route with less derailment… Read More Captured in your mind
