Month: December 2008

Paul Linden Seminar in Dublin

I’m not long back from Dublin where I trained with my mentor Paul Linden Sensei. Hosted by Fiona Kelty and Chierchini Sensei of the Aikido Organisation of Ireland. I’ve previously …

Body Swapping

“It sounds like a lost episode of The Twilight Zone. A man enters a laboratory, dons a special headset and shakes hands with a woman sitting across from him. In …

Play Training Photos

Here are some play training photos from The Body and Therapy Workshop – from the section inspired by Fred Donaldson’s Original Play. Great connection and a lot of fun – …

Embodied Training Photos

Here are some photos from last weekend’s successful embodied training workshop in Brighton, which bought together people interested in the body in business, somatics and embodied leadership. We shared our …

Cheng Hsin Seminar UK (Wales)

Cheng Hsin is the most sophisticated martial art I have come across in 11 years of world travel and exploration, making my beloved aikido look crude by comparison. It can …

What is Embodied Cognition?

Wikipedia says: Philosophers, cognitive scientists and artificial intelligence researchers who study embodied cognition and the embodied mind believe that the nature of the human mind is largely determined by the …