• Through meditation, find yourself in a state of calm prior to starting your exercises. That includes achieving singularity of seating and "losing your body," concentrating specifically on an arm, or leg. Keep your spinal cord, sight and breath alive throughout that preparation. (Feel free to use the recording of the guided facilitation session held in class.)
• Keep exercises mundane, and don't worry about any "plot" (what is going on?), or "character" (who am I?). Use Demidov's advice in the article titled Silk Thread (BA-C, Glossary, p. 786).
• Don't allow yourself to become exhausted. Take frequent breaks. Even fifteen minutes a day may be enough (plus another fifteen minutes or so to generate calm prior to exercising), as long as you exercise daily. Take notes of what you've done on a given day.
• If you notice "watching" yourself to the point that it interferes with your work, assign an object in the space to take the function of the watcher (chair, table, etc.).
• Only do what you feel like doing, and what you are capable of doing.

Source: Demidov Acting Certificate Course, Winter Homework

"Read the theme you just "picked". Lets' say, you picked "mosquito bites" – immediately, without any thinking, yield to spontaneous sensations, movements, thought – to everything that comes to you as a reaction to the words you read."

"Don't rush to move to the next theme, until you've exhausted the previous theme. Rest for a few minutes, then take another theme. No need to exercise many themes in one session, so that not to get accustomed to approximating the truth."

Three precepts

1. Assign "who is watching"
2. "Life as normal"; no extraordinary events
3. "Public solitude": I am alone in the space

Direct quotes from Demidov Scales and the Scale Exercises Examples sheet