Why We Play on The Embodiment Podcast
Podcast with Mark Walsh of The Embodiment Podcast where we talk about play, dreams and imagery, auto-regulation, why we do sports, how to maximise learning transfer, developing qualities, nonsense, Fighting Monkey Practice, movement culture, Instagram, nonsense, image hygiene and more 👇
Only when I rest, I realize how tired I really am: one tactic to stop skipping practice
It's only when I rest, that I realize how tired I really am." This is a sentence I have heard so often. One thing I believe in is that our body is always speaking to us about our current state.
Every Day is Burnout Day
Every day is burnout day. You can have a burnout right now and you should. There’s a key that gives access. Do it every morning every evening, every moment, of every day. Burnout is the best thing that can happen to you.
Habitual posture. Habitual emotion. Habitual thought.
Our habitual postures are connected to habitual emotions and habitual thoughts in a strange dance — if you have a certain association, then you take a certain posture and have a certain feeling.
Interview on Vegetative Training with Inge-Jarl Clausen
Are you looking for a powerful method to release old tension, heal past trauma, and unlock your full potential? Vegetative Training, developed by Wilhelm Reich, offers a unique approach to recovery and self-healing. By systematizing instinctive body language and guiding you through spontaneous, biologically determined movements, Vegetative Training can help you address the root causes of emotional and physical disturbances stored in your body. Experience the transformative power of this method and discover how it can improve your overall well-being and performance.
I practice because I tend to forget
I often take notes on the experiences of my clients. One of them told me last week “I tend to forget” when speaking of a practice experience he had. A great reason to practice.
Avoiding what will eat me alive
What I’m trying to avoid is the thing that will eat me in a while.
From the inside constructions once built are close to collapse
Hot melted clay
Today I tuned the movement of my arms so well with the movement of my breathing.
Today I got my life coaching
Today I got my life coaching from that purple-red leaf colored tree I always see when I enter the park whose branches said:
Once I truly spoke with a man
Once I truly spoke
With a man who barely said
A word. In fact, there’s not a
Word he said that I remember.
Seeing the wall standing in the room
Seeing the wall standing in the room
Figuring out architecture of my feet
Restless calves letting go into the wooden floor
Dancing dots playing out their work on the white
Teaching without teaching: the indirect method of education
Man is a self-developing organism which means that man cannot develop under compulsion but only through internal freedom, which is one’s understanding (knowledge + being) that a man can evolve.
Story of my tensions
Story of my tensions
Story of my breathing
Story of rhythm of my heart beating
Story of my narratives
I can't just go stand and ‘do cleaning practice’
I can't just go stand and 'do cleaning practice'
But I can stay in front of it.
Somehow then the cleaning of my psyche
Starts to happen by itself.
When you asked me that first question
When you asked me
That first question
I was launched again
From story into passenger seat.
Make shopping list
Walking past the shops
They all try to sell me
Something, one better tagline
Than other.
Not many people can sit on a bench
Not many people can sit on a bench.
The best time of the year to start is end winter
taking its final steps towards spring. The mixture
of the cold wind with the gentleness of the rays