SEAN CIALL SWORD CIRCLE Meeting Schedule

1. Applied Breathing & Relaxation Sunday Sept 6^th 2-4 PM at Kung Fu Studio

· Strikes & kicks – Leaning basic striking & kicking

· Joint locks – Learning to use joint locks to control people & how to counter them.

· Slow sparring practice - Integrating Slow sparring with breathing & relaxation techniques

2. Breathing & Relaxation – Theory Friday Sept 18 7-9 PM At Capitol Hill

• Theory of breathing
• The Physiology of breathing
• Types of Breathing
• Breathing exercises
• Theory of Relaxation
• Understanding the risk of stress & tension
• Managing & Countering Stress thru breathing & self hypnosis
• Relaxation exercises

3. Sean Ciall Falling Seminar (It is recommended you attend the 2 Breathing & Relaxation sessions) Sunday Oct 4^th 2-4 PM at Kung Fu Studio

• Understanding the fear of falling
• Basic Falling Techniques
• Basic Rolling techniques
• Survival Rolling & Falling

4. Learning to Enhance Personal Awareness Friday Oct 16^th 7-9 PM At Capitol Hill

• Types of awareness
• Techniques for enhancing awareness
• Awareness Exercises
• Field exercise – Practicing sensing threats & remote influencing in an Urban environment

5. Offensive & Defensive blade combat – learning to use a knife for offensive & defensive work as well as weapon disarming. Sunday Nov 1^st 2-4 PM at Kung Fu Studio
• Integrating Breathing/Relaxation/Awareness/Visualization/Energy into blade work
• Basic offensive Knife work
• Basic defensive Knife work
• Slow sparring practicing weapon on weapon & weapon disarms. Emphasis on integrating BRAVE into sparring

6. Introduction to The Subconscious, Visualization & Basic Energy Work Friday Nov 20th 7-9 PM At Capitol Hill

• Theory of the subconscious
• Learning to use & manage the subconscious
• Exercises for using & accessing the subconscious
• Learning to visualize
• Applying visualization to situation
• Visualization & hypnosis
• Visualization Exercises
• Understanding energy
• Learning to manage, manipulate & recognize energy
• Energy Exercises

7. Hypnosis, NLP And enhanced Awareness Application Sunday Dec 6^th 2-4 PM at Kung Fu Studio
• Applying basic sports hypnosis to close quarter combat
• Recognizing immediate threats of conflict at the subconscious level
• Using NLP to defuse conflicts
• Dealing with Multiple attacks (unarmed & armed)
• Maintaining awareness under high stress conditions

8. Hypnosis & NLP – Theory - Friday Dec 18^th 7-9 PM At Capitol Hill

• Introduction to Hypnotism
• Theory of Hypnosis
• Using Hypnosis to manage the body
• Basic sports Hypnosis
• Learning Self hypnosis
• Basic Hypnosis session
• Introduction to NLP
• Theory of NLP
• Basic NLP exercises
• How NLP & Hypnosis work together
• Basic Hypnosis/NLP session