Similies and Metaphors used in Suzuki and Viewpoints training*

1. When practicing the four basic movements, one through to four, you must not be like a tree swaying in the wind; you must be like a concrete obelix.
2. When sliding forwarded in basic no#1. imagine you are pulling a car, full of children, out of a dam with your peliv area.
3. When sliding forwarded in basic no#1. imagine you are pulling a sledge, full of children, out of a dam with your pelivic area.
4. The bottom half of your body is like a stone pedestel and the top half of your body is is bouquet of flowers.
5. The bottom half of your body is like earth, the top; sky.
6. The bottom half is fire, top; water or nuclear reactor and peace on earth.
7. Your diaphram is a tyre
8. When turning in the Slow Ten Walking imagine you are attempting to turn the earth on its axis and begin to spin it in the opposite direction. Or imagine you are moving a cement building on its foundations 180 degrees
9. When practising Basic No#1 imagine you are working against a string current of water. When you are wlaking you are pushing against the current.
10. In basic no#4 your pelvic region is like a corkscrew.
11. Become more shapely in the shapeiness.
12. We are not zombies.
13. You are a sports car not a toyota carola
14. Tom (leopard print/bike shorts guy/lovely guy/brilliant teacher): Say 'I' when I say your name like you are in a classroom and the teacher has asked the class what 2+2 is and you know the answer and you put up your hand as if to say 'I, I, I know the answer!'"
15. Don't forget to breathe...or you will die.
16. Taken from Lee Strasberg method acting school:

Student: I'm tired of 'being' a cat.

Teacher: I had to be a monkey for 6 months for Lee Strasberg before I got to progress

And Yes! Acting is a real job...

I think.

*please note these are actually quite useful when training as they allow the imaginative engagement with the work. The instructors realise and make note of the often...strageness of this use of language.