Balance Beam

solid moves and good music to boot...Enjoy!

shhhhhhh....

 “Sound is the mark of inefficiency.”
Gravity is king! How you move around gravity will define whether you’re an efficient – or inefficient – mover. Remind yourself of the quote above when working on your transitions, jumps and landings. Think of it as moving with a certain self-respect, with grace, elegantly, softly, efficiently – like a cat. The less sound you make, the better.

Saturday Cartoon

by me.

Zaragoza, März 2014 © Laía Argüelles

Phrases

I've been thinking a lot about transitions in my own practice recently, like really really precise foot work when climbing and noticing the subtle shifts in weight when doing floor work, and how important awareness in those small linking movements improve the quality of the shapes with bigger demands on the body.

It's been a really nice theme for my classes this week too. To prepare for class I've been making little 'movement riddles' for my self. I'll start with a particular asana or pattern (I think of it as a phrase) and then break that phrase down to the most basic elements try it with pauses, linked with more fluid movement,  then reversed and maybe inverted...I end up holding acres of movement in my head, what I'm going to teach always starts like a broken jigsaw. In getting students to use these phrases to inquire about their own movement we learn together. I love that. 

 

How To Listen To The Space Between Your Thoughts

Yumi Sakugawa

Merve Ozaslan

Works by Merve Ozaslan

Glaciers move in tides.
So do mountains.
So do all things.

- John Muir, Letters from Alaska

 

 

Images by:

1. Joe Nigel Coleman 

2. Nicoletta Branco 

3. Öykü Öge

Transitions

“In the space between chaos and shape there was another chance.”

― Jeanette Winterson, The World and Other Places: Stories