One-hand Juggle

One-hand Juggle

Aim: Reconnect body and mind; improve focus, reflexes and hand-eye coordination.

Level: 3
Duration: 10-15 min

Joyfully controlling ups and downs.

Instructions:

A simplified way of juggling with two balls, which most can learn by themselves or with a facilitator from this instruction and practice during 1–10-minute breaks from office work with one hand, eventually even while talking on a phone.

  • Give your brain a break, and take 10 minutes off from your job activities.
  • Make sure you have enough space around you, so you don't break anything
  • Stand up and take a comfortable standing position - your knees slightly balanced, your spine loosened up.
  • Take one of the balls into one hand. Leave the second hand empty, you can put it behind your back making it easier to focus on the juggling hand.
  • Throw one of the balls straight up into the air, so it goes around 50-70 cm up in the air and then falls down into your hand again. (Repeat this until you feel comfortable with it or feel you are in control)
  • Put the second ball in your hand and repeat the previous step 5 but this time before you catch the first ball throw the second ball straight up into the air and catch the first ball coming down, then catch the second ball coming down. (You have done one repetition now)
  • When you feel comfortable with doing a repetition, keep raising the number of repetitions until it becomes fluent.
  • Your goal is to keep both balls juggling in the air continuously, none of them staying in your hand for longer than 1 second and none of them falling on the ground.

Advice

You may stay on step 5 and also instead of juggling balls use anything from an apple to a crumpled paper ball.