(found here)

Practice.

When moving what do you chose to  focus on?
The small details or the bigger picture?
Watch how your attention shifts between the two.
What happens to the movement when your focus is broken? Can you keep bringing it back to the task in hand?

It is the moment by moment focus on how you feel as you are feeling it that will keep you safe. 

(Illustrations by Lauren Nassef)

Etereas / Animation Shortfilm from Flaminguettes on Vimeo.

N. Dash

N. Dash creates works across mediums that emphasize the hand-working of materials. Beautiful.

1. Untitled, 2012. Fiber, silver gelatin print
2.  Groundings (4), 2012. Linen, rabbit skin glue, wood support
3.  Healer (1000), 2011. Indigo, linen, wood support
4.  August 11, 2010. Indigo pigment, paper
5.  Commuter, 2011. Graphite on paper

See more here.

Tell all the truth, but tell it slant
Success in circuit lies

  -- Emily Dickinson

hmmmm...

(Found here)

"Each one of us has lived through some devastation, some loneliness, some weather superstorm or spiritual superstorm, when we look at each other we must say, I understand. I understand how you feel because I have been there myself. We must support each other and empathize with each other because each of us is more alike than we are unalike. "

--Maya Angelou

Joan

Dialog

Dialog, 1977 by Rudolf Bonvie

I feel, therefore I am.

In the middle of the 17th century, Spinoza took on Descartes and lost.

According to Descartes' famous dualist theory, human beings were composed of physical bodies and immaterial minds. Spinoza disagreed. In ''The Ethics,'' his masterwork, published after his death in 1677, he argued that body and mind are not two separate entities but one continuous substance.

As for Descartes' view of the mind as a reasoning machine, Spinoza thought that was dead wrong. Reason, he insisted, is shot through with emotion. More radical still, he claimed that thoughts and feelings are not primarily reactions to external events but first and foremost about the body. In fact, he suggested, the mind exists purely for the body's sake, to ensure its survival.

For his beliefs, Spinoza was vilified and -- for extended periods -- ignored. Descartes, on the other hand, was immortalized as a visionary. His rationalist doctrine shaped the course of modern philosophy and became part of the cultural bedrock....

Read the full article by Emily Eakin in The New York Times.

"Wisdom tells me I am nothing, love tells me I am everything, and between the two my life flows."

-- Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

Kiki Smith, Coming Forth, 2008

Feel it.

Quote from From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler. by E.L. Konigsburg.

(found here)

Trisha Brown

Movement Drawings by Trisha Brown

(Images from Chantal Anderson , Mii Y and me)

Dialog

Rudolf Bonvie, Dialog

The Square Circle

The Square Circle on Nowness.com

"Boxing is a beautiful thing. It's a triumph of a persons soul over there fears, over their anxieties."

Some of the benefits of this movement stuff are hard to articulate without heavy use of nutty metaphor and the like. I'm especially fond of the mental and physical feeling of spaciousness it creates within.

I do yoga because it makes me feel happy on the inside. It's one of the most precious tools I've ever been given. I teach yoga because I want other people to have that tool too.

Pina

"... exercise is not purely physical, as if we might carve off the flesh, leaving the spirit behind. And this is a crucial philosophical message: of wholeness. The human condition involves a continual to-and-fro between the body and the mind. In fact, the nouns make these aspects of self seem more divided than they are. Thinking is embodied, and acting is mindful. We are not a ghost in a machine, to use philosopher Gilbert Ryle's phrase: we are bodies, and these bodies are conscious."

-- Damon Young

I look at my own body
With eyes no longer blind—
And I see that my own hands can make
The world that’s in my mind.  

-- Langston Hughes

(Found here)

Sunday Tune

Sunday Tune

Friday!

(Image found here)

Jean-Baptiste Courtier

Natation Synchronisée by Jean-Baptiste Courtier

Secret Yoga Club

Pop-Up Yoga Studio
The Secret Yoga Club at Celestine Eleven!

Classes are drop-in, no booking required and donations are welcome. Mats are provided and all classes will be a gentle flow for all levels. 

Come because we can help you feel warm and alive and it's ALWAYS advisable to spend a bit of time doing the things that make your insides feel soft.

Be sure to arrive early!

Please see HERE for the schedule (I'm on Mondays at 19:30 - 20:30, but go to what ever you can, it's a brilliant group of teachers.)  

(image by Gabrielle Hales)

Friday!

(From mollyrstern)

“Cultures cherish artists because they are people who can say, Look at that.”

— Marilynne Robinson