02 Alignment

Date: 
Thursday, February 16, 2023 - 20:00 to 21:45
Room: 
Small Classroom
Student should bring: 

nagado bachi (usually larger diameter, harder "kashi" wood)
earplugs

Class syllabus: 

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

Teacher(s): 
Yeeman Mui
Attendance: 
Chris Phua
Daniel Olsen
Abi Sangco
Silvia Võ
Barbara Woods
Nat Roman
Images: 

Classes in this Course

Date Title
Wed, February 08, 2023 01 The Concept of Ki 氣
Thu, February 16, 2023 02 Alignment
Wed, February 22, 2023 03 interconnection
Wed, March 08, 2023 04 Efforless
Wed, March 15, 2023 05 Fluidity
Wed, March 22, 2023 06
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