I’m always on the hunt for new ways to efficiently warm up into juggling. When it’s done well warming up into juggling is more than just warming up the muscles, it’s opening the body, especially the shoulders and chest, It’s loosening and protecting our tendons. Aligning the body, focusing the mind and charging us up without tiring us out too …
Functional Juggling Warm Ups – [Pearls of Juggling Articles]
There are many ways to warm into juggling. – This includes the juggler’s all time favourite… of not warming up at all! 🙂 Some of us train progressively with props, starting off perhaps with just one prop. Others enjoy jogging, (or joggling), skipping a rope, push and pull up type exercises… Others like Yoga based exercises and perhaps Feldenkreis or Alexander …
Pearls of Juggling articles no. III – Taiji and yoga: philosophy and practice for juggling training
I’ve been immersed in this topic for quite some time. How can Yoga and Taiji integrate with juggling? What can we learn from these disciplines that may help us to improve our juggling and increase its all-round benefits? I’d like to share some thoughts with you and my hope is that these will allow you to get even more …
Finding the Game – Pearls of Juggling Articles #2
FINDING THE GAME! In my book, Pearls of Juggling, there’s a recurring theme that I find very interesting and which I keep turning to, not just throughout the whole book but also throughout most of my work as a whole. This theme is what I call FINDING THE GAME. Finding the game is what makes juggling FUN – it’s also …
Fluid Juggling – Pearls of Juggling Articles
“Like a graceful vase, a cat, even when motionless, seems to flow.” George F. Will Fluid juggling is the term I have coined for my work on Juggling and Movement. It is the moment in which we stop “practising” and instead just have fun with our props and body at our current level of technique. The emphasis is on …