Untitled, David Horvitz, 2016

grays anatomy

Georgia O'Keeffe

Feldenkrais Method in action

Cy Twombly

Pierre Verger - Capoeira, Salvador, Brasil, 1946-1948

Nancy Spero

how things spread

live with your hands unfolded

Son: What are your dreams for me?
Dad: My dream is for you to beable to live out your dreams. I like this old proverb that talks about when children are born they come out with their fists closed because that's where they keep all their gifts. As you grow your hands learn to unfold because you are learning to release your gifts to the world. So, for the rest of your life I want to see you live with your hands unfolded.

Why We Are Digging Up Old Bones

The remains of Cervantes have been discovered. Art history sleuth Silvani Vicenti thinks he has identified the remains of the woman we know as the Mona Lisa. The Archbishop of Canterbury has just conducted the funeral of Richard III in Leicester Cathedral. On Front Row the sociologist Tiffany Jenkins explains our fascination with bones of cultural and historic significance. Listen here. 

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Illustration by Yumi Sakugawa

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Interesting stuff about Dr Andreo Spina's Functional Range Conditioning and his clinical thought process. If you work with bodies click play!
MS Podcast with Dr. Andreo Spina

put your movement cap on...

Today I just have THIS podcast from Katy Bowman for Well Rounded Athlete . It is fascinating.
I'm currently reading Katy's book Move your DNA and as a result I now walk EVERYWHERE I can and have stopped using the furniture in my flat...currently typing this sitting in a squat.
Check it out...I shall leave you with some of the best quotes.

“You adapt to what you do most frequently….not what you do with the best of intentions.”

“You have ‘casted’ your body by walking only on flat, level ground.”

“We’re all overdosing on Vitamin Sit On Your Butt.”

“We’re bent on trying to fix our problems, without changing the environment in which the problem was created.”

(Found here)

Staying with the note

Do you ever listen to music to meditate? It's one of my favorite methods. It doesn't matter what the music is, it just has to be something you enjoy listening to.

Press play.
Sit back.
Listen with attention to every single note, word, beat and silence.

Meditation should be enjoyable. We only consistently do things we actually like doing!

(image found here.)

The Inflated Tear

“The Inflated Tear” sounded like the entire spectrum of the history of African-American music rolled into one four-minute song: old slavery spirituals, work songs, field hollers, soul, modern jazz, and early blues. It was like a Duke Ellington reed section, yet more emotional, more intimate, with a sound that ached of centuries. It was like listening to the inside of someone’s heart.

Songs Of Our Lives: Rahsaan Roland Kirk’s “The Inflated Tear” by May Cobb

Source: therumpus.net

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