Juggling: A meditative practice. Many jugglers, especially in the beginning, fall into an almost meditative state when training, where time and tiredness no longer exist – you could find yourself juggling for hours and barely realize it. Juggling is an excellent way of overcoming negative conditioning and beliefs we hold about ourselves. It is a …
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 …
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– This includes the juggler’s all time favourite… of not warming up at all! There are many ways to warm into juggling. 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 …
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 …
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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 …
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“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 …
This last year, I’ve been researching playfulness in greater depth. It has always been an important part of my juggling work as a performer and teacher, and I just decided to dive in a little deeper. What I’ve seen is that play and playfulness can be a solid healthy base for any activity and it …
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Translated into German by Chris Blessing, original article here. In meinem Buch, Perlen des Jonglierens, gibt es ein wiederkehrendes Thema, das ich sehr interessant finde und dem ich mich nicht nur im ganzen Buch zuwende, sondern auch in einem großen Teil meiner gesamten Arbeit. Dieses Thema nenne ich DAS SPIEL FINDEN. Das Spiel zu finden, …
We’re launching the crowdfund for the first of a series of new language editions in GERMAN! Seems, to me like we’ve been talking about the possibility of this for ages. If you are reading this now the chances are you already have a copy in English. We’re doing this project for all the jugglers that …
This year we created 8 movements with one ball and gave them names inspired by the ones often given to Chinese exercises. We called them “Esercizi di legatura”. That in Italian means something like “Binding exercises”. These exercises cover a large variety of throws and catches while connecting the body to the throws and catches. …
