Thailand Intensive With Ido Portal (May 2024)
It was something special, as usual. Every day started at 7 AM, and finished at 10PM, and between those hours we worked ON movement THROUGH movements, and wrestled our way through mazes, labyrinths, and allegories.
Ido’s class was, amongst other things, a brutal awakening of what work ethic looks like, a study of models of recalibration, a course in upgrading how we manage the body, and a practice of structure. It provided examples of how to work on a technique to get more than the technique - but to draw from it something far more precious than the technique.
Odelia’s class was a journey below the surface of techniques, and into the hidden depths of ground work. The treasure that was offered there: how to create new relationships within the body. This exploration of intra-corporal organization percolates upwards to the surface of techniques, but at the same time creates a layer of freedom in movement than no accumulation of techniques can provide.
Some other fun things that came up along the way…
the shocking inefficiencies of how we use various sources of energy - from the psychological, to the caloric, to the respiratory, and of course the contractile.
how to engage work beyond the reps, using the cognitive faculty in THE RIGHT way (and not for the sake of escapism)
developing ourselves in a balanced way, with a proper relationship between the aspects we develop
And the most elusive of them all - how to get good at WHAT YOU DON’T DO. Finally, the secret formula was shared. Bad news for most: it’s nothing less than 24/7 practice. But of course, that’s the best news of all.
