Keiko program 2018-08-25

• Taimyo Kata

Keiko program - 2018-08-18

• Kenko Taiso - the deeper you go, the further you reach

Keiko program 2018-08-04

• Head/shoulders rotations
  • standing up, rotate slowly and completely the head within a plane at 45 degree angle with the plane of your body.
  • then, other 45 degree
  • again, starting with looking over your shoulder at 45 degree angle (opposite rotation)
  • again, involving the hands / arms: windmill rotations
  • Aosola Taiso
• Gauguin - Matrix exercise
  • same idea as before, but together with partner
  • first, both cut diagonally, using same side, through partner body - it won't work if your energies don't meet at the center of the earth, resp. (opposite rotation) top of the sky
  • second, using Gauguin's form (Where do we come from/What are we/Where are we going): one partner brings energy from far behind to far ahead - through other partner's shoulder. Other partner, after a while, accompanies the first partner's movement with his own (opposite) movement. Contact, but no pressure.
• Gedan Barai, soft, open-handed, Kihon - forward and backward
• same energy and steps but with TSGS A-E (A through oneself) both hands stepping forward, TSGS-I both hands stepping backwards (open-hands)
• Taimyo Kata part I - complete
• Tenshingoso Kumite - standing up, one hand / both hands / variations
• catch ball, sitting on the floor
  • roll a small ball on the floor, various ways (TSGS-I, TSGS-O(bowling), TSGS-E(elbow forward))
    Stretch as you go and reach forward, playfully.
  • Then send the ball as you come back rolling - slightly over partner's head
• catch ball, standing up - like tennis serve / volley-ball smash: let the arm completely unfold to vertical, before releasing the ball (fingers finish pointing forward). Drive the movement from the center / Tanden. The ball should make a nice parabola, ending up precisely at the middle of each other's forehead (looking up).

Keiko program 2018-07-28

• Ao-sola Taiso
• Kenko Taiso
• Feldenkrais stretching on the floor
• Toitsu Kihon - Kiri Harai
  • individual series: jodan / chudan / gedan
  • 3 cuts series: jodan-chudan-gedan
• Eiko kumite - tsunami

Keiko program 2018-07-21

• Kenko Taiso
• Tenshingoso
• Wakame Taiso

Keiko program 2018-07-14

• Massage
• Stretching on the floor
  • lying on your back, folding / unfolding your body by corkskrewing "heaven" = the horizon over your head
  • same thing with one leg pushing from folded position - crawling on your back
• step, same feeling - take hanmi, then corkskrew body brings back-foot forward (heaven now is vertically above)
• same thing, with mae geri
• maegeri and tsuki (together) stepping, with receiver - same idea, starting everything from the center. Tsuki starts from head-level, like in boxing.
• tsuki only - do not pull back the hand in front, but wrap your body along extended arm as you bring the other hand forward; both hand movements should spiral naturally. Tsuki now starts from hip-level, like in karate. Hands are opened, and relaxed.
• same thing with partner holding wrists
• Denzel Washington's walk
  • walk, fully relaxed, moving left side of your upper body forward as your right foot advances, then right side of your upper body forward as your left foot advances, etc.
  • imagine bouncing a ball on the ground with your hands (alternating hands) as you walk
• Closing

Keiko program 2018-07-07

• Kenko Taiso
• Stretching - Buddha sequence
• TSGS A-Um back-to-back on the floor
• Taimyo Kata