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.