hand skin

Heavy lifting (without gloves), hand balancing on carpet (no yoga mat!!) and bouldering.

Skin

"Playing with surfaces is probably where my brain is as well as my own body. Looking at the difference between a set of monkey bars, which would never occur in nature, and then looking at trees. Not just their angles, but also the textures of the bark. All the things you would touch would not have been smooth, they would bite into your skin and require that your skin strengthen.

Our skin is a big limitation to our health. The muscles of the entire body has to pass through either the hand or the feet if you’re doing something with body weight, and yet the skin has never been exposed to anything natural. Even if you are barefoot the nutrient you consume the most is a flat man-made surface.

I’m observing how everything is flat and smooth in my whole life. Nothing has asked the skin to the party. Nothing has asked the skin to participate in your body’s way of moving. Walking on different surfaces just for the sake of the skin. Playing with grip, diameter, and how that changes muscle recruitment."

--Katy Bowman via Liberated Bodies

Nikos Economopoulos

Nikos Economopoulos sees natural human movement everywhere...or at least I see it in his photos...

women in clothes

Sheila Heti, Heidi Julavits and Leanne Shapton have created a book entitled Women in Clothes, which is about women’s relationship to style and why women wear what they wear. For the book, Gus Powell photographed Zosia Mamet reenacting memorable fashion poses that Shapton pulled from magazines.

I'm really enjoying this book!
I love dressing up, but clearing out my wardrobe this week got me thinking...for someone so interested in 'moving well' I have an awful lot of stuff that restricts natural movment, from shoes to skirts to bras!
I'm now weeding out the stuff that makes me move more like a robot then a human being.
Except for the gold shoes with a mini disco balls on the heel that I can't walk in (taxi shoes!) they are staying...

 

Fell Runner