Month: January 2008

Dead Sea Aikido

Not your average aikido seminar! The photo is from an aikido seminar lead by Miles Kessler and Patrick Cassidy, by the Dead Sea with training in a Bedouin tent. (Also …
31st January 2008
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Randori

My friend Lance Giroux of Allied Ronin forwards this from his blog site for us to read. He’s been integrating the underlying concepts of aikido into public, academic and corporate …
30th January 2008
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Stephen Hawking’s Bodymind

I was posed an interesting question by one of my Holistics students the other day: “If mind and body are so integrated how come Stephen Hawking is so clever?” In …
25th January 2008
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ethnosphere

Anthropologist Wade Davis on language extinction, growing up in caves, voodoo, poetry, mind altering drugs and “shit knives.” This is better than anything on TY today. http://youtube.com/watch?v=bL7vK0pOvKI
24th January 2008
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BBC Stress Report

Apparently “Work stress changes your body.” Could that be because stress is a bodily phenomena? OK, sarcasm aside, the BBC has reported a study showing that stress leads to heart …
23rd January 2008
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Gyms are Bad

I’m really angry with gyms, the exercise industry and the manipulation of the body I see around me. The exercise industry and gyms are bad for all of us. Here’s …
22nd January 2008
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Life Lens

There’s an interesting blog entry here about ways to look at things – life lenses if you will: Reverse lens: “What would the other person in this conflict say, and …
21st January 2008
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Conscious Embodiment

Conscious Embodiment is a practice developed by Wendy Palmer Sensei of California that explores centre and habitual patterns through the body. Wendy Palmer is a 6th degree black belt in …
17th January 2008
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