@0xDB: could you spoiler at least the description of the exercise? I suspect I'm not meant to be reading that yet, interesting as it sounds. I'll be doing the same once I get to 2A and onwards.
(I really appreciate that Nicolaides is a thoughtful teacher here, and understands that frontloading on information can have a stifling effect.
That said, I did skip to the last page and then rewind til I found the final schedule, just so I could figure out how many 3-hour sets there were in total. I found the answer acceptable)
Gesture gets me absurdly pumped up physically (I think I got maybe 2-3 hours of sleep last night, but I feel totally fine, fantastic even.. it's quite bizarre.). The 'really feel the action' part of it is like.. theatre, without worrying about an audience. Each drawing is like a little sprint.
(sorry, no pics yet. I do have more, but the logistics of photographing meters and meters of drawings requires some thought.. I'm thinking maybe a wire-mesh bedframe plus excessive amounts of clothes pegs. Or I could just hang them on the clothesline, which would be vaguely surreal.)