Tree Wrestling is my quick start guide to Standing the State designed for both newbies and experienced practitioners looking to go deeper.

Tree Wrestling was born out of my frustration with Standing the State. For many years now, folks have reached out to me that having spent s

Tree Wrestling works by realigning our intellectual understandings with the experiences we create during the practice. Its designed to...

The first step in Tree Wrestling is making our tree. We want to imagine that we are hugging a tree that is custom fitted to us.

Feelization by its very nature is going to introduce tension into our posture/shape. Some of this tension will serve the Integrated State..

Applying vectors of strength is how we put the wrestling in Tree Wrestling. Into the feeling of our tree we are going to try our strength

We want to pay close attention to the feelings we induce while exploring the fundamental vectors in the fundamental shapes.

Anything we Memory Banked in creating our Tree Feeling is fair game. Think of it as rebuilding our tree with Recall instead of the.........

Uniting Vectors of Strength is where are diligence and achievements in the previous aspect/stages of Tree Wrestling really starts to pay off

The next step is to begin exploring our vectors, recalling them one at a time within our Tree Feeling.

This One Feeling can be expressed in many ways, lets call them lifting, pressing, pushing, pulling, shifting, twisting, turning, splitting,

What you think you should feel is not necessarily what you will feel by following this procedure, it certainly was not for me.

I guess my point is take away the take away's. Take them away from a limited focus on fighting and apply them in the other activities......