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My preferred pronoun is _____________.
I love the texture of ________.

intro:
body work
guidance and references through imagery
- to bring awareness to our own body
- to build connection with our own body
- to build connection with the instrument
- everyone is different and have their own pace of connection with their body

Chi/ki Experiment
- the word "Qi" (qi-gong 氣功) shares the same character/kanji as "ki" (ki-ai 氣合)
(however the character for Tai Chi 太極 is different from Qi/Ki 氣)
- "Qi" or "ki" is a major component of our body that can be easily overlooked

Alignment
- 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

Warm up:
1) tai chi arm swing warm up exercise
- purpose: posture awareness, and the concept of initiating from your core, and "letting go" of the arms
2) den den daiko arm swing exercise
- purpose: initiating from core, imagine a tiny pulley on the top of your head that guide the direction
3) Arm swing and glide across the room (with water bottles)
- in order to keep the water from splashing, one need to engage the core and be able to fully relax the arm
4) Frog Hop
- purpose: core workout and control. imagine stepping on hardboiled egg to engage the core for controlling the landing of our feet
5) Frog Hop with arm swing/water bottles
4) dying cockroaches for 2 minutes
- purpose: "shake it up" shake up the qi/ki throughout your entire body

Key points about using water bottles
- follow the flow of water
- understanding the flow from "initial energy"
- the "velocity" of the flow
- the direction of the flow.

alignment of body with drum
- air bachi to check posture and allignment
- 2 minutes drum roll gradually from soft to loud, focus on posture

2 minutes roll
- focus on breathing and bring your awareness to where tension happen

Mountains
- gradually get louder and back to soft as one big group and then smaller groups
- bring awareness to where tension happen
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breathing/kegel exercise chest/torso > belly
- breath in > jelly fish (relax muscle below your belly button, i.e. pelvis floor muscle)
- breath out > jelly fish goes up (tighten up pelvic floor muscle in an upward motion)

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