Mat Lab
Focus on Principles

Perform and/or teach this routine with focus on employing Opposition Principles.
Do the same routine with focus on Reciprocal Enervation.
Discuss how changing the focus on one principle or another without changing the choreography changes the experience.

Kinesiology hip roll
Leg kick series – Lying on the side, forward & back, up & down, hot potato
Mermaid from sitting to one arm balance
Exercise on six
Kneeling lunge – center to front and back to center
Kneeling lunge – center to side and back to center
Sitting spiral or turn around the back
Crab
Boomerang
Feldenkrais clock
Teaser series – 1, 2, 3
Hips high series with arm support – Beats, Double leg circles, Bicycle
Roll-up with arms held by the ears and then modified with arms forward
Neck pull
Roll-over
Hip flexor stretch with one knee bent
Hip flexor stretch with both legs straight
Open leg rocker
Swan
Swimmer
Row-back
Saw – same arm and leg
Saw – opposite arm and leg
Knee kick – double knees with chest expansion
Stomach massage – lying on the back [straight back], sitting [round back]
Trainer assisted tower
Bridge
S ingle leg bridge
Trainer assisted monkey
Monkey roll
Stand and sit
Hundreds, modified hundreds
Leg circles – single leg and double leg (double ‘D’)
Corrective rest position

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