Linklater Warm-Up Video (Click for Written Instructions)
Start in "actor neutral."
1) Skin tapping
Stop and appreciate
2) Loosen flesh and muscles (massage)
Stop and appreciate
3) Shake out bones (work foot, up to knee, whole leg, pelvis, spine undulation, rib cage, bounce shoulder blades, roll shoulders, hands, elbows, arms, throw arms, neck rolls)
Balance skull on spine
4) Yawn (up and down, sideways) and stretch to sides, up
5) Drop hands, elbows, shoulder, head, whole body (imagine tailbone is highest point and the rest of you is dangling from your tailbone, relax unnecessary muscles)
6) Roll up one vertebrae at a time (loosen stomach)
7) Close eyes, focus on breath, note your diaphragm, inhale and exhale (sigh of relief)
8) Keep eyes closed, notice your daily breathing, start exhaling on a ”huh” and “huh-huh” (high to low pitch)
9) Huh-mmm (high to low pitch)
10) Speak huh-muh
11) Blow through lips - lips mmmmuh, huh
12) Hum, roll the neck
13) Hum, roll over, roll back up (at top, bounce knees with open mouth)
14) Above, but at top open and bounce shoulders
15) Above, but at top open and jump whole body
16) Shake it out on a huh