Dry Bathing is sweeping the hands down the body to brush off any excess energy accumulated through the day from stress or activities, social engagements, or recreated from kinesthetic mirroring with others. The brushing off is a physical and symbolic mindset practice for letting go of extra energy and mimicked impressions of the body tension picked up on from others, while it also provides soothing sensation with palms and fingertips.

Energy Shaking or Qi Shaking is a way to simultaneously relax and enliven the nervous system and muscles. Shaking can be a way to prepare readiness response time for instinctual movement. It can also be done to shake off any ongoing freeze response or held muscular or postural tension from stress, repetitive movements, or prolonged standing, sitting or activities.

Heel Drops, inspired from Qi Gong, are a way to reconnection with the ground we stand on, and bring awareness to shifting our center of gravity back from our toes to the back body and mid-foot. Rising up slowly onto toes like a calf raise and dropping back down by landing heavy in the heels with an added arm swing can defuse extra energy and resettle us into our footing, as we are reminded that the Earth meets us with equal reinforcement.

The Hug and Breathe is a way of regrouping when overextension has occurred, be it mental, sensory, energetic, emotional or physical. Frim but comfortably flexible compression can collect our attention back into our own physical body, skin and being, as it offers beneficial sensory connection with our nervous system and pressure receptors, while we bring our awareness into presence with the ebb and flow of our steady breathing in the resilience of the living moment.

Tapotement is a sports massage technique that can simultaneously activate and calm nervous systems with rhythmic anticipation and contact. The space seems to invite the nervous system to listen with full sensory receptivity and the contact lands with weighty intentionally benevolent applied attention to the muscles.