nagado bachi (usually larger diameter, harder "kashi" wood)
earplugs
Opening:
- Alignment, Balance, Fluidity
- name, pronouns
- "name one texture that brings you joy"
Warmup
- full body warmup
Alignment and Drumrolls
- apply the same concept of feeling the air/ki through your spine to build upper body awareness
- to feel the alignment of shoulder, arms, and lower body
- to feel the space around our body
Stance
- finding ease and flow in your body with the way you stand
- dying cockroaches / shaking the water off
- music "As the River Flow" LAU.RA REWORK https://www.beatport.com/track/as-the-river-flows/12866421
light saber exercise
- purpose: posture awareness, and the concept of initiating from your core, and "letting go" of the arms
- notice the elbow joint has to relax / let the elbow drop
basic kata / 4-8-16-32-16-8 drills to music + POWER UP exercise
Cool Down and free play to decompress
Improvisation to music
- purpose: to listen and connect with each other while looking inward
Heart Sutra × Ikkyu-ji Temple,Kyoto / Kanho Yakushiji
https://youtu.be/gm4hTcRhoqI
