Movement Archery

How do you relate to your environment?

Floorwork teaches us to listen again to gravity, to the ground, and to the forces that shape the body.

In a time when so much of our attention is pulled away from physical reality, this practice brings us back to a simple question: how do we move with what surrounds us?

The floor gives resistance and support. The body responds. It can flow or crash, and somewhere between the two, a creative conversation begins.

Follow the steps of the sequence and pay attention to the tip in the middle. Learning it gradually can become a small journey into your relationship with gravity, the ground, and the space around you.

New live workshops and intensives are coming soon, including events at our space, where we will explore floorwork, partnering, and the wider intelligence of moving.

This sequence may seem challenging, but taking it one step at a time reveals that with patience and attention to detail, it is much simpler than it first appears. The difficult part is getting all the different elements to connect and flow together.

Floorwork often breaks when the mind arrives too early.
Your attention has already moved on to the next transition, while the body is still inside the current situation.

This is a lesson we can learn again and again.

It is all about placing the attention in the right place.
The floor is constantly giving information: weight, pressure, friction, direction, timing.
When we anticipate too much, we stop listening to the movement we are actually inside. The next action becomes less clear because the current one was never fully completed.

So while practicing this tutorial, try to stay with the movement that is happening now.
Feel the ground, follow the weight, and let the next movement appear from the one you are already doing.

To go deeper, explore more floorwork in our online course, or join The Archery Pass for a full year of access to our online practice library.

A new collaborative workshop around movement intelligence on the floor is also coming this October.

Link in the first comment and our website 🏹

The hips are a strange place. Anatomically, physically, and biographically.

They hold tension, rhythm, fear, grounding, sensuality, protection, power.
So much of our relationship with the world passes through this area of the body.

Over the years, I’ve noticed that improving the hips is rarely about “opening” them aggressively. More often, it’s about restoring dialogue between weight, breath and direction. Between softness and commitment.

I’ve trained my whole life, and my flexibility in this area has always been quite available. But last summer I started noticing lower back pain, and it improved when I began to approach my hips in a more playful and creative way.

This small shift changed the way I walk, train, fall and behave.

We’re currently building a new online Movement Archery course around the hips, pelvis and lower back.
A space for people of all ages and backgrounds to explore mobility, coordination, fluidity and support through a creative and thoughtful practice.

More to come very soon. Stay tuned 🍃