tensegrity/recapitulation/erasing_personal_history
Erasing Personal History
Hannover, 2001
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Erasing personal history Stand in basic Tensegrity stance.
Lift shoulders up and then sink into low stance bending knees.
Shift weight to left and right a couple of times, locate your centre of balance.
Right hand comes up vertical, left arm horizontal. Form window (energies A and B from 'dreaming' in Westwood series).
Arms come down to your sides.
Fan the V spot bring energy with both arms 5 times.
Hit with back of left wrist and at the same time step forward with the right leg, two more hits and steps; Hit downwards towards V spot with open right palm whilst at the same time kicking with the left leg forwards. Repeat twice each time alternating the hand that hits and kicking with the opposite leg.
Starting with the right hand and left leg take 6 steps backwards till you end up in starting position.(left leg is forward, right leg back right hand is by the right hip). Strike with heel of right hand to right vital centre, then strike to the V spot of double in front of you,with back of the left wrist (don't step forwards), and then punch with the right fist to V spot in front of your double.
Take step forward so that both feet are parallel.
Right leg comes forward as the whole body rotates 090 degrees to the left so that both feet are parallel and with the elbow of the right hand strike sideways. The palm of the left hand supports the right hand fist. As you strike the whole body shifts to the right.
Left leg comes all the way behind the right leg, and while keeping your centre of gravity low and back straight, pivot 180 degrees to your left and repeat elbow strike with the left hand, then turn 90 degrees to left, feet parallel and strike with the heels of both palms low in front of you at height of midsection.
Take a small step with the left foot forward and from there do a 'round house kick' with the right leg striking the left vital centre whilst at the same time striking with a left 'roundhouse punch' in front of you at the height of the face. Repeat twice more each time kicking and punching simultaneously.
Starting with the right leg do 'scraping the mud of energy' 6 times stepping backwards till you end at your original position.
[ignacio: A little addition to your description. After the pass for the enegies A & B left side, we take a step forward to left behind our personal history. Then continue with the passes for de V spot from Westwood series as you describe.]
The next series of passes are from the last three passes from the first part of Westwood series to do with the centre for decisions.
Step forwards with the left leg and at the same time the right hand does the first pass from moving the AP from back to front.
Step forwards with the right leg and at the same time the left hand does the second pass from moving the AP from back to front.
Step forwards with the left leg and at the same time the right hand does the 3d and last pass from moving the AP from back to front.
Take 3 steps back so that you're back in the position where you started.
second part of this pass --> the five point connection pass
*source: http://www.hot.ee/tonal/english/english.htm*
Alternate Description
Erasing personal history
I far as I was taught second hand, this pass is practically identical to what was taught in Hanover, Germany.
Lift the hands inhaling, exhaling lower the hands palms facing the body to the lower disk as if putting them in frontal pockets.
Inhaling raise the toes of the left foot, exhale lower. Do on the right. repeat.
Inhaling arch the base of the toes on the left, exhale lower. Do on the right.
Repeat.
Sway or lean from left to right a few times and finally come to center.
Do 'Playing out the A and B type energy' from the Westwood Dreaming series right side only.
Do 'Stirring energy around the center for decisions with a bent wrist' from Westwood center for decisions series.
Do the faning motion left and right 5 times then strike with the right with the back of the wrist in front the the V spot while stepping forward with the left, then strike with the left step with the right and strike with the right step with the left.
Keep stepping forward but bring the left hand overhead slapping down as the right leg kicks straight up, they meet but don't touch. Repeat with the right hand left leg, left hand right leg.
Turn the body on. Retreat to where you started by stepping backward while concurrently fending the opposite hand accross the body.
Assume horse stance and strike to the lower disk with the right heal of the hand fingers pointing right. Strike the V spot with back of the left wrist.
Then strike the same area with the right fist. Repeat starting with the right.
Step forward with the left and pivot to the right, strike forward (to the original position) with the left elbow, right palm over left fist an inch or 2 away at the same time taking a little hop moving the whole body with the strike. Feet are kept parrallel.
Step behind with the right foot and turn the whole body 180 to the left and strike with the right elbow mirror of above.
Pivot left facing front again and strike with the heals of both hands at the lower disk.
Step forward with the left and hook with the left fist while kicking laterally with the right causing a compression in the mid-section. Kick with the outside of the foot like a side-kick. Repeat right fist left kick, left hook right kick.
Retreat scraping off the mud of energy to original position.
From: "z" <byron.zlts@v...> - http://insensciety.com/notes/index.html