Freedom is an interesting concept. To me, one foundational freedom is the freedom to move our bodies. This includes movements that occur within our own bodies, like heart beating, breathing, and intestinal movements. More obvious ones may be: Do you have the freedom to reach overhead? Touch the floor? Step over fallen tree? Run away… Read More Foundational Freedom
Broadly speaking, there are two phases of relaxation. The first involves relaxing whole-body tensions. This is where the body transforms from readiness-for-movement to beginning-relaxation. The body begins to separate into functional units, but postural changes cannot occur yet. This first phase is the goal in a Massage with me. We may need to re-establish this… Read More Phases of Relaxation
No-Form is a standing form of meditation borrowed from Antero’s Paratheatre, which borrowed it from Zen. I have been experimenting with applying it to various movement and awareness practice outside of the Paratheatre context. It seems any movement practice achieves a greater wholeness and perspective when incorporating stillness – the lack of movement, or the… Read More Ruminations on No-Form and Movement Practice
AEOD’s are ways of offering our bodies and beings to the planetary forces in various ways. I base the AEOD’s around the current sign position of the Sun, Moon, Mars, and Saturn. There are an unlimited number of ways of valid AEOD’s, this is experimental work. Maybe one of my ideas gives you an idea… Read More Astrological Embodiment of the Day – Week of 3/4-3/11
AEOD’s are ways of offering our bodies and beings to the planetary forces in various ways. I base the AEOD’s around the current sign position of the Sun, Moon, Mars, and Saturn. There are an unlimited number of ways of valid AEOD’s, this is experimental work. Maybe one of my ideas gives you an idea… Read More Astrological Embodiment of the Day – Week of 2/26-3/4
For this, we’ll separate the body into 4 basic regions: head/neck, core/back, shoulder/arm/hand, and hip/leg/foot. We’ll use some basic geometry to map our bodies in space, probably familiar for most of you from school. We’ll use the 3D space mapped by 3 linear dimensions oriented at right angles to each other. We will use this… Read More Full Body Stretching
Below I have outlined a basic system of posture and movement which focuses on spiraling contractile fields. One intended benefit of approaching the body through such a system is to ease the process of approaching the whole body, instead of just focusing on basic movements. Geometry is another problem. While straight lines are a very… Read More Spiral Movement 101
Evolutionary Embodiment 