Movement Archery

Movement Archery Expressing and communicating philosophy, nature and arts through dance and movement practice

by Tom Weksler and Roser Tutusaus

30/08/2026

Following our recent posts on spinal movement, this is one of the ideas that changed my practice most: The River of My Spine.

A way of feeling the spine not as separate parts, but as a continuous, moving structure through the whole body.

Comment SPINE and we’ll send you Roser’s spinal improvisation practice.

Upcoming Movement Archery workshops:

🇮🇸 Reykjavík - 26-27 September
🇪🇸 Barcelona - 26-31 October - SOLD OUT
🇬🇧 London - 14-15 November
🇳🇴 Oslo - 21-22 November

More info through the link in bio.

28/08/2026

The closer we get to the floor, the more possibilities of support we have, but also the less space we have to move.
Knowing how to organize the body with more or less space, and which coordinations become useful in each situation, is a big part of what I understand as skill and quality of movement.

It is important to understand that this knowledge is not capacity dependent. It means it is not about how much we can move something, but knowing what to move and when.

I am a strong believer that the more the space shrinks, the more the spine should become our tool. The hips on the floor are fundamental. Without knowing where they are and what to do with them, we will be very limited. But further freedom and actual expression come from being able to reorganise the spine around them.

Even something as small as changing from facing the floor to facing the ceiling completely changes the movement situation. So the more sensitive we become to these changes, the freer we can become close to the ground. In the next reel, we’ll share some tools for incorporating more spinal movement into improvisation.

Comment SPINE and I’ll send you a longer YouTube lesson focused on opening more possibilities in the spine with a partner, and developing more awareness and freedom in lower-level movement.

If you’d like to study with us in person, our upcoming The Quality of Moving workshops are:

🇮🇸 Reykjavík - 26-27 September
🇪🇸 Barcelona - 26-31 October SOLD OUT
🇬🇧 London - 14-15 November
🇳🇴 Oslo - 21-22 November

More information through the link in bio 🏹

25/08/2026

I think both hardness and softness are qualities. Both are fundamental for moving through space.
The problem begins when either of them becomes our only desired goal.
We can become very good at being soft, fluid and relaxed. Or very good at creating tension, force and impact. Both can be useful, at the risk of becoming over-habitual.
For me, a practice of quality is not really about accumulating more capacities or pushing one quality further and further. It is about becoming sensitive to what the movement situation asks from me and being able to respond naturally and efficiently.
Hardness and softness. Tension and release. Resistance and surrender. None is complete without the other.
The interesting territory is somewhere in between, where things are more nuanced and ambiguous.
This is a central part of what we work with in The Quality of Moving: developing both the what and the how of movement. Creating variability and freedom, while resisting the limitations of our own biases.
We currently have places open for Reykjavík, London and Oslo.
If you’d like to go a little deeper into this approach, comment QUALITY and I’ll send you some further reading together with information about the upcoming workshops 🏹

24/08/2026

I often think about the spine through the relationship between its two ends - the head and the tail.

When this connection becomes clearer, the movement of the spine can become more available in many directions: rotations, curves, arches, spirals, and eventually more complex movement.

The connection between head and tail also allows the whole structure to contract and expand, creating more efficiency and variability in movement and speed. I find it especially potent in lower movement, close to the ground.

These are 9 simple drills I use to explore that relationship. The point is not really how far you can move, but how the movement travels while integrating the whole structure.

Try a few and notice how your whole body can feel more alive afterwards, whether you go into weightlifting, dance, yoga, or almost any other physical activity.

We explore this much further in The Spine, our online course at , and in our live workshops.

If you want more material around this, comment SPINE and we’ll point you towards it.

20/08/2026

Partnering is a very direct way of practising adaptability.

Another person constantly changes the situation: their timing, weight, intention, resistance, attention. You cannot execute exactly what you had planned because the conditions are never entirely yours.

With time, this becomes less about compromising your movement and more about becoming responsive to what is actually happening.
And perhaps that is why partnering can teach us something useful for solo movement too.

We explore this kind of work as part of The Quality of Moving workshops.

🇮🇸 Reykjavík · September
🇬🇧 London · November
🇳🇴 Oslo · November

17/08/2026

Partnering becomes much more interesting when we stop thinking about two people performing separate actions and start thinking about one living ecosystem.

The Flying Rabbit asks for a complex negotiation with gravity, weight, timing and direction.
The steps can be learned separately, but eventually the flow that allows the force to redirect into a loop depends on something less visible: complete listening.

It sounds cliché, but emptying your mind and paying full attention to the weight, direction and rhythm of the other body is what makes the difference between doing the move and letting go into it.

And you probably know which one we prefer.

A small partnering study from the Movement Archery practice.

13/08/2026

One of the most important ways to expand movement is to expand the levels where we are comfortable moving through.
Standing, crouching, supporting weight through the hands, sitting, lying down. Each level is a world of its own and it changes our relationship with gravity and with the space available to us.

Just think how breaking revolutionised the world of dance, or how BJJ changed the world of fighting by developing an entire universe close to the ground. And on the other hand, imagine trying to practise yoga using only standing postures or only seated postures - you’ll get a very partial practice.

In that sense, distance from the ground can easily become a dogma. You move where you are already familiar with movement and all else is outside of perception. So if we don’t keep opening new heights and possibilities, we also limit the ways the body can organise itself.

Over time, I think this matters more and more. I see people age and lose the ability to get in and out of the floor. I want to live in my body longer than what is socially acceptable.

A sustainable movement practice is not only about having more movements, but about having more possibilities within movement. And that’s why principles and quality matter more than quantity.

This is one of the ideas we explore in The Quality of Moving:

🇮🇸 26-27 September - Reykjavíkgentlegiant

🇬🇧 14-15 November - London


🇳🇴 21-22 November - Oslo

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