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Greta got annoyed while playing the violin because all the attention was on Gregor for coming out of the room.

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I'm at Kokikai Aikido Summer Camp this weekend. I'm very happy to see people I've known for many years and to work with instructors, including Maruyama Sensei, who are able to give me advice that really applies to my body and my practice. One great nugget of teaching came early in the weekend, when Veronica Burrows Sensei, (my teacher's teacher) talked about a way of moving my arms that makes throws both softer and more powerful.

It's a bit hard to explain "on paper," but I'll try. I learned in yoga that if you hold your arms over your head with your thumbs pointing towards the back of your body, and then rotate your arms so that the elbows come toward each other, you are externally rotating the shoulders. When you do this you can feel that your shoulder blades settle over your back. Most of us sit, stand and walk with our shoulders hunched i.e. internally rotated.

So, as you stand normally, if you lift your arm with your shoulders externally rotated (think of letting your shoulder blade settle nicely over the back of the ribcage) it allows the chest to be more open, and you can lift your arm more softly and naturally. Then the movement of lifting your arm can more easily originate from the center of the body rather than the top of the arm.

Roni Sensei then held her arms out as if she were in position for ballroom dancing, saying "You can hold this position for a long time, because it's comfortable."

Aha! (Music-Aikido moment!) I have difficulty holding the violin for long periods of time and her posture gave me a clue as to what to do to help that!

I knew I was on the right track when, a short time later, Sensei stood up in front of the class, demonstrating a completely different throw, and held his arms out in the same way. Then he made the motion of playing a violin with his arms.

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Learning Violin-Playing Posture in Kokikai Aikido

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I'm at Kokikai Aikido Summer Camp this weekend. I'm very happy to see people I've known for many years and to work with instructors, including Maruyama Sensei, who are able to give me advice that really applies to my body and my practice.

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And they all lived happily ever after...except for Gregor.

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And they all lived happily ever after...except for Gregor.

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Ms. Shelby

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Three Boarders...if they liked music...which they do not!

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Three Boarders...if they liked music...which they do not!

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Ms. Shelby

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When his sister shut the door on him.

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Grete didn't clean his room so it became dusty and dirty.

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Free photo Old Broken Abandoned House Vintage Dirty Room - Max Pixel

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Old Broken Abandoned House Vintage Dirty Room photo, resolution 4288×2848 pixel, Image type JPEG, free download and free for commercial use.

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The father always sat in his chair.

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The apple stays lodged into gregors side even until death. The apple is now rotten and moldy and as he is losing feeling he states that the soreness of that area is very faint and continues to become fainter.

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the new cleaning lady wasn't necessarily scared of gregor. Instead of running away, when gregor instinctively ran towards her, she lifted a chair and was ready to strike him with it.

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There are three business seeming men who are in the house and practically own a room so the family could get more money

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Father refuses to take off his uniform although it's dirty. Still has polished clean golden buttons

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Gregor's sister soon stopped cleaning the dirt off his floor and didn't clean his room as well.

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The apartment was too big for what the needed, but they didn't move because they couldn't move Gregor. They could've used a box with holes.

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The apartment was too big for what the needed, but they didn't move because they couldn't move Gregor. They could've used a box with holes.

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Pierce

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The sister tells her parents that they should all try and get rid of "it". She also said that "things can't go on like this."

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The sister loves to play her violin, and the family is "completely absorbed" by the violin playing.

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Gregor stopped eating and would only take a bite of food for fun.

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The family keeps throwing useless junk into Gregor's room because there was no room anywhere else.

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They hire a cleaning lady that is not scared of Gregor and she talks to him like a friend.

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His father continues to wear his suit in the house and even sleeping

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His father continues to wear his suit in the house and even sleeping

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Pierce

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The apple continues to be a source of pain and suffering for Gregor.

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The apple continues to be a source of pain and suffering for Gregor.

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Ms. Shelby

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Gregor's father was blaming his mother for not letting Grete clean Gregor's room and he was screaming at Grete because she would never be allowed to clean it again.

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Gregor,s mother put pails of water in his room, for cleaning. Gregor was irritated by the dampness