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

Keiko program - 2018-06-23

• self-body-acquaintance
  • finding comfortable sitting position, = zero tension. If necessary, then start from lying down.
  • vary around this position, stretching and/or sitting up, always smooth, always back the same way to full release position.
  • All the way to standing up (Feldenkrais way). and back (same).
• standing up (advanced) Japanese traditional way: from sitting on your heels
  1. getting on to your toes. relax
  2. moving one foot slightly forward. relax
  3. pushing up. relax
  4. both feet parallel. relax
  5. all the way back. relax
• standing up (advanced) variations: once the whole workflow is figured out and smooth, then
  • repeat, holding out one's hands, as if holding a tray (tea ceremony)
  • take hanmi right from step 1 (traditional martial arts) - as if being pulled forward, from sitting on your heels, by a string attached to your navel
• Wakame Taiso
  • finding standing up release position (aka. "wakame mode") as per the outcome of the first part (= the turning point between going up and going down, Feldenkrais way)
  • upon partner's push, let body memory exercise: last in first out - as soon, but not sooner, as nothing comes in. all the way back to (standing-up-) release position. and stay.
  • and again, on partner's input.
• Eiko Dai
  • Eiko means Glory - initially from Eiko no Ken: Sword of Glory
  • cutting sky by pulling (kiri harai) / cutting earth by pushing (kiri komi)
  • imagine zen monastery prayer wheels, which one spins in passing, except here: one above. one below.
  • simulate with your hands above. simulate with your feet below (the wheels, not the push - or actually both). both wheels spin in opposite directions.
  • centering the action in one's koshi, see (and feel) the wheels above and below spin while walking (running) - as if, again, pulled by the navel.
  • free wheels (= forget about them. just follow tanden, "riding the sea of Chi")

Keiko program 2018-05-26

• Kenko Taiso
• Wakame Taiso
• Tenshingoso

Keiko program 2018-05-12

• Jo jutsu
  • warming up
  • Jodan Kion
  • catch Jo
• Taimyo Kata

Keiko program 2018-05-05

• Warming up / Stretching
• Toitsukihon
• Taimyo Kata