Calendar
Monday, January 5: Break ends, classes resume.
Friday, January 23: Neo Game Night! 6-8PM
Saturday, February 7: Fire and Ice Day (Steam and Cold Plunge. All welcome) 10AM-12PM
Saturday, February 14: Couples Thai Massage Workshop with Megan and Cesar ($50 per couple. Limit 3 couples) 10AM-12PM
Happy New Year Stillness Family!
We’ve missed everyone over the Winter Break, and are excited to get back to training, learning, and growing with you all!
The Western New Year begins in the middle of a season, but our training calendar leans more on natural rhythms. Culture tends to push us to speed up and keep up with more around the holidays, followed by a rush of resolutions, new goals, and routines. In the natural world, winter is typically a time to slow down, ground ourselves (animals burrow and rest, plants recede), and build our energetic reserves for the seasons ahead.
We are smack in the middle of our winter training cycle. Our physical training is focused more on building foundational strength that will carry us through skills we build in the summer and spring. Our technical training is leaning more heavily into martial work.
From a technical standpoint, youth students tend to spend their first few fall/winter seasons learning general martial fundamentals (stances, movement, falling and rolling skills), basic grappling positions, and basic striking techniques in order to build strength and coordination to build on later. Moving into the tween/teen years, we’re now expanding footwork, introducing more wrestling positions and techniques, and dipping our toes into the world of Jujutsu. The three main forms of Jujutsu our students have been learning techniques from this fall/winter are Aikido, Judo, and Brazilian Jiu Jitsu. In the second half of winter, students will be learning how to move between the positions they’ve learned in previous years, as well as building their arsenal of unarmed self defense techniques.
We’ve got some exciting specials planned this winter, and we look forward to seeing you there!
INTRODUCING: MAVIS CAMP!
Please join us in welcoming Mavis and the Banks/Camp family to Stillness Academy!
Mavis is a Camp Stillness veteran, and we are thrilled to have her joining the crew! Here’s a clip of the group playing together at our 2024 camp. Good times!
SEE YOU IN THE NEXT UPDATE!
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