Firstly, welcome back. It’s been a wee while since Neil and I posted on this site. We’ve been busy in the background focusing on writing academic papers, delivering workshops and gathering some initial exploratory data. Amidst all this we realised we’ve been uncharacteristically silent.
Last week’s CMF Conference in Birmingham was, therefore, the ideal opportunity to change all that.
We offered a friendly invite to any and all attendees to come along to the park and train in some radically embodied compassion, FCMA style. See some pictures of what went on below…….
Those who came joined in a warm up, some fierce breathing, some static stance work (from both Wing Chun and TKD) and some basic punching. We then moved into a partner drill, with variations along the theme of compassionate maai and staying in relational space during conflict. We demonstrated several non-harmful wrist grab releases and moved into more vigorous kiap/kiai striking (on pads), before warming down with ha breath and shaking it all off.
A big thank you to all who attended and especially Graham Music for linking the work we’d done during our time together to the theme of his brilliant keynote speech at the Conference.
See you all soon.
Syd and Neil
