Any movement and any activity can bring on new lessons and learning. Here is a simple movement exercise and obstacles on the way to further the learning gained from them. One can repeat a movement ten thousand times and learn nothing. One can hone a movement ten thousand times and learn everything. The smart gorilla… Read More The obstacles are the learning
Many wake up and jump out of their bed. Here is a protocol to prepare the body for a smoother entrance into the day using breath and awareness. Remember – Take care of the mechanism First – breathe and listen for the pulse (placing your hand on the side of the neck or just being… Read More Morning breath work
Complicated things are made of simpler and simpler things ? Let’s assume they are all the same and see how this works. Avoid learning how to open all keys and instead learn how a house is made. Let us take a push to the back of the head and play with it and see if… Read More One simple push
In this video we follow a wider mindset. Instead of trying to control the situation, we work to be aware and thus control ourselves and further more. Instead of focusing on our motives and moves, we aim to see the reflection of the other within ourselves. If you know the enemy and know yourself you… Read More Instead of technique – become the air
In this video we do a sensitivity drill to learn how to move as one and avoid being reactive as a drum. The pressure a knife needs to penetrate flesh is the same as used by one finger. Be aware and move. Avoid being a pin cushion hero.
Blunt impact comes in many forms. Preparing to give and receive impact can greatly clear the fog of imaginary outcome and grow your awareness to your thoughts, feelings and your physical body. Practice these methods of movement with consistency and attention and you will feel progress in your impact. Solo work: Rest your arms on… Read More Strikes 101
Here are three mobility movements for the shoulders, spine and hips. All involve moving two patterns of movement together to create human movement. We are more than one tool playing in the dark. Shoulder mobility comes to release held tension and fixation in the shoulder and upper spine. Spine mobility comes to release rigidity of… Read More Twisted mobility
A man who marched for an internal eternity is different than the man who have yet to embark on one. You cannot prepare for life although many books say otherwise but you can prepare yourself for yourself. Confused ? Just wait. I cannot prepare a student for everything as a teacher. I have no key that… Read More STRIP
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
