October 2017
∞OS: Implementation of Wave Dynamics Principles into Everyday Life
∞OS (eightos) – is an operating system for the bodymind. Its task is to supply operational support for human activity and practice and to enhance our interactions with our environment. This practice is based on combining Systema Russian martial art, Noguchi Taiso Japanese body work, Vipassana meditation and other techniques. The body is shifted into the natural work mode, which is based on wave-like and spiral movement (hence the 8 in the name of the practice). Working with other people…
Find out more »∞OS: Delivering and Receiving Impact
We will work on delivering and receiving impact. The main idea is to develop a practice where you can create an affect without letting it affect you back and also receiving affect in a way that localizes the impact and transmits it through the system and out of it. We will start with a general warmup and slow impact moving on to faster impact and more intensity, combining the exercises with some wrestling and floor work to cool down and…
Find out more »December 2017
∞OS: Bodymind Operating System and Crossdisciplinary Scaling
∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞ RSVP FORM: https://goo.gl/forms/95K42gUWFaep7Yav1 ∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞ ∞OS – https://8os.io/ – is a bodymind operating system. We use physical experience to apply new behavioral patterns on individual and collective levels. On the 3rd and 4th of December we will host two sessions in Paris where users can try out our operating system and install some of the procedures into their bodymind hardware. The Initiation Session on the 3rd of December will include a 3-hour physical practice to introduce the new patterns and procedures based on…
Find out more »∞OS API Practice Exchange Session with Isabel Lewis
For this ∞OS session we will explore interoperability of practices, which is at the basis of ∞OS approach. What happens when we put different practices together in the same context? How do they influence each other (if at all)? What is the subjective experience of that? For this session we will invite Isabel Lewis to present her interactive physical practice (visual sense + smell) in the first part and will then move on to the touch in frame of ∞OS…
Find out more »January 2018
∞OS + Moving Hands Like Clouds
For this session we invite Diego Agulló to share his practice "Moving hands like clouds" and to then integrate his ideas into our ∞OS training. Here's some description of what Diego does: On this Introductory session to pushing hands practice we will exercise energy generation and listening power to increase the sensitivity to feel the direction and strength of a partner's intention.
Find out more »February 2018
Regular ∞OS Training
In this regular training we will focus on exploring the concepts of direct impulse, assimilation and redirection using the exercises with punches and wrestling techniques.
Find out more »June 2018
Introduction to ∞OS
∞OS is a bodymind operating system based on implementing oscillatory dynamics in everyday interaction through physical practice. In this introductory session, which is a part of ∞OS Hidden Agency residency during "Welt Ohne Aussen" exhibition at Martin Gropius Bau, I will demonstrate the main principles of ∞OS and also our special learning method where we use physical metaphors to implement new patterns of behavior into everyday life. In our practice we combine elements from Systema Russian martial art, Noguchi Taiso…
Find out more »March 2019
Activation and Response: Fluidity, Giving and Receiving (Strikes)
In this session we will explore some of the Systema principles and work with the pushes and strikes. We will learn the different strategies of sending an impulse into a body (or any other structure) as well as the different strategies of receiving them. We will then escalate both the speed and intensity and observe the changes in the dynamics of the activation and response behavior. We will also explore the different strategies to recover (using burst-breathing and soft movement), which…
Find out more »April 2019
∞OS: Assimilation and Redirection
In this session we will work with the concepts of assimilation and redirection, exploring their effect on our behavior through physical movement and interactive exercises. We will see how adaptability may be improved if we react to an incoming impulse with assimilative response: accepting and integrating its in~tension or redirecting it towards a different set of coordinates. Continuing our work based on the fluid body movement and strikes we will gather the new movement patterns together to see how they…
Find out more »Control, Evasion, Contact, In~tention
In this session we will explore the concepts of contact, control, evasion and in~tention using the body. We will work with the sticks to have a direct embodied experience of connection and leader/follower roles. We will then move on to a really nice work focused on evasion and redirecting in~tention through space.JTNDaDIlM0VHZXQlMjBhJTIwc3BvdCUzQSUzQyUyRmgyJTNFJTBBJTNDdGl0by13aWRnZXQlMjBldmVudCUzRCUyMjhvcyUyRmJlcmxpbi0wNDE3JTIyJTNFJTNDJTJGdGl0by13aWRnZXQlM0U=
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