By Sarah Marklund
Location: Umea, Sweden
So, we finally started our indoors girls workshop about a month ago. The 30th november me and AnnSofie (a girl who also practises here) had a workshop for girls in our association plus two new ones (we were 11 in total). We focused on the mental stuff that always seems to be there and often seems to be in the way of practise. Since we often get the message that the girls mental blocks seem to be a bit different from the guys, or maybe affect them stronger, we wanted to put our best efforts into working with these things. Mental blocks are extra obstacles we create in our mind, often to protect ourselves from being hurt.
Our aim was to activate thinking about why we react as we do when we are afraid of something or just not used to a certain exercise. Then we wanted to try to have some fun while we challenge these reactions. We will try to have these workshops once a month for as long as we feel it is a good thing.
We did some exercises in view points - we made some statements and then people would say if they felt the statements were true to them or not. We got some wonderful discussions going! It was great to hear what others was thinking and how they work when meeting new challenges. Later we made a small course, very simple, where we had to lead someone else through it by guiding them with words or touch. This was an exercise of a trust and collaboration between each other. After that we all got to fall or jump backwards from a bar in the gym, landing on our butts on a big soft mattress. It was a lot of fun and many of the girls came to overcome the scary bit of falling backwards. We raised one of the bars and also jumped from a higher position, but this time not backwards since the height was the obstacle now. After this, two whole hours had run by, and we were ready to gather up before going home in the snow and darkness that defines Umeå this time of year.
You can contact Sarah about girls’ classes at sarah.upkf (at) gmail.com or
for more information go to www.upkf.se
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