The research and application of physical intelligence is mainly devised in Plasma physical intelligence training and in two derrivatives of Plasma physical intelligence training: Plasma massage and Plasma therapy,

Physical intelligence is basically ability and readiness to create new movement patterns and swiftly integrate them into the existing net of movement patterns in order to adjust to given situation or/and create new situation.

In order to do that one needs is to produce a physical state of the body that will enable one to create necessary or needed new movement patterns.

In Plasma there are several types of approaches to reach that creative physical state (and could be called like technique, method, workshop, training...). Strictly speaking it is not a technique or a method. It rather transmits unobligatory set of tools for one to be able to be in the state of readiness. And what is more important, it encourages each and everyone to look for creative usage of the tools that are suggested, created or learned somewhere else.

So the basic question is not what is correct or not, but what works (functions) for you and what not. The criteria for what works or not is not in Plasma it is in each of us. Thsu is unique. Even it is not something set. It is indicator of where our interest lies in certain moment. So this criterium is not something fixed for life, but extremely dynamical thing. And Plasma is also about this: about extremely dynamical and unstable states in our body and how to recognize them and work with them creatively and even more to use them to be able to highten our physical intelligence.

There are no preliminary movement patterns imposed, Plasma takes off from the movement patterns already present in the bodies of participants. This immediately calls for creative doing of the training. The participant is encouraged to work from and with its own sources of imagination, knowledge, intuition, sensation and abilities. Through this one recognizes its own movement patterns quicker and easily, becomes aware of one's own movement strategies and tools and does not lose on certain specialisations.

So Plasma is perfect to be paired with techniues or methods since it approaches movement in the discrete (descrete like in math) way. Plasma does not approach movement from dance point of view or sport or scientific (though of course it corresponds with these approaches and draws tools from them). It enables one to come in touch with his/her own understanding of movement, explore it and develop it.

Plasma physical intelligence training (Phit)

As mentioned before Plasma has many approaches, that can be labeled as contemporary dance class, training, workshop, method. All in all, the exercises are not difficult in a tradional terms. But pose a challenge to even highly skilled and experienced dancer to call on other strategies to resolve certain movement challenges proposed in the exercise or movement suggestion.

Plasma also stresses overlooked feature of movement: imagination, that is not connected only to visualisation but sensation (for example spacetime sensation) and other features of imagination. There is whole training that is very physical and yet playful and imagination envigourating.

Plasma does not reduce technical ability or strength. Rather opposite. It is physically demanding training that enables dancers to better understand some of the traditional movement patterns (floor work, rolling, jumps, plie, tandue, acrobatics...). For what is worth it is strong training on its own without relating to other more traditional and normal approaches. Again, it of course connctes to them, but does not depend on them.

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