Planning in PE
Alex Sporticus This blog post is adapted from Teaching about planning in pre-service physical education teacher education: A collaborative self-study and is part of my evolving thoughts about how we teach planning to novice PE teachers. The way we teach novices PE teachers to plan is problematic. There is a resistant taken for granted assumption that […]
The Fasting of the Word (III)
Dave Wardman [Part One] [Part Two] [🔗] Umbral-affinity For those of you who have read the first Cerberus Essay: a further umbral quality of Cerberus is that of ‘umbral-affinity’. This is a property of ‘metaphysical and false-value resonance’ between people afflicted by the same head of Cerberus. They will subconsciously seek out methods […]
The Fasting of the Word (II)
Dave Wardman [Part One] [5] from word-fasting to ideation-fasting Just as one progresses with physical exercises when they no longer elicit a potent change within the organism, so it is too with the fasting of Cerberus. Charged-words are just the tips of the tendrils of the extent of Cerberus’ covert infiltration of the […]
The Fasting of the Word (I)
Dave Wardman [an early prototype of a C3rberus basic white work ‘philosob3t’ Wickerword Diagram] [*] fasting Traditionally the practice of ‘fasting’, the voluntary abstinence from food, is associated with health, longevity, or religious austerities. Often fasts are undertaken for reasons of purification, be they spiritual or metabolic. As mentioned last post, fasting is also […]
Harvesting Stillness in a World of Perpetual Motion (Part 2)
Ramon Castellanos [Part One] The Hunter Who Sit’s Quietly In a Blind This state of perpetual inner and outer motion are not innate or inherent qualities of the human animal. We were not ‘designed’ for it. It erodes our biological systems, strains the spirit and muffle’s the whispers of the soul. For the […]
Movement Alienation
Jason Round THE WHAT: The concept of ‘Movement alienation’ encourages us to take a step back & consider how & what we engage with in terms of our physical practice. It also proposes that we can be more connected with & aware of how we are moving at any time – to truly experience […]
Harvesting Stillness in a World of Perpetual Motion (Part 1)
Ramon Castellanos Perpetual motion The tirade of ceaseless action. The ongoing barrage of doing that fills our awareness. ‘Normal’. The siren song of modernity, and the echo of concrete jungles always hums with an underlying sense of ‘doing’, for contemporary civilization would ask us to remain: ‘On’. Our society is not designed for ‘still […]
Anxiety & Thought Spirals of Doom
Chandler Stevens Yesterday I met with a couple of new clients, each of whom struggles with nervousness and worry despite years of experience in therapy. Within half an hour it was evident that in all those years they hadn’t been taught a basic fact about their feelings: There’s a big difference between […]
Structures, Symbols, and Sensory Junctions
Jim Freda The Deep core body plan can also be called a graphic, a map, lens, or schematic. The symbolic content is very minimal so how it is interpreted is an important part of it’s value. I like the word plan because it indicates intention, design, cooperation, and complexity. To call it a map […]
Creating Lasting Adaptations (Part 1)
Austin Einhorn So you want to help an athlete move a different way—a tweak of their squat or forehand. Whatever it is, you need to ensure athletes have the ingredients for the final product. Those ingredients are the five-tier hierarchy I mentioned in the last post. Awareness—of the movement and access to it. Endurance—sustaining […]
Stage Fright & the Nervous System (Part 2)
Amelia Chan [Part One] I cannot even tell you how often students come to me asking for a lesson right before an audition or a performance. Or this: I’ll contact you for a lesson when I’ve practiced and “learned” my piece/program. It is such a classical music world thing where all our lives, […]
Stage Fright & the Nervous System (Part 1)
Amelia Chan Just a few thoughts on this huge topic. When it comes to stage fright, first of all I’d like to point out that what I personally find to be a key missing element from most discussions is the WHAT it is. All the following are valid elements in the cause of stage […]
Giving AF (Part 2): Awareness Before Advice
Jereme Sanders Part 1: Trust and Honesty “To give a person an opinion one must first judge well whether that person is of the disposition to receive it or not” – Yamamoto Tsunetomo, Hagakure The next step, which should be happening concurrently with the first, is that of our awareness of the […]
Giving AF (Part 1): Trust & Honesty
Jereme Sanders [AF in this instance means ‘Actionable Feedback’, but secondary title to this series is “Student Centered Teaching Practices”] As a teacher we want to make sure we find the right answers for the problems that arise in our students. The answer may not always be the ones we are used to, […]
Thinking with the Body
Chandler Stevens It only took us 400 years, but we’re finally remembering that the body is the foundation of our cognitive function, meaning that our mental health and performance is developed from the bottom up. Perhaps more significant: the way that you carry yourself (that is, what you do with the body – how […]
Interoception & Integration
Jim Freda “The heart of healing lies in our ability to listen, to see, to perceive, more than in our application of technique.” (Myers 2020). “In order to change, people need to become aware of their sensations and the way that their bodies interact with the world around them. Physical self-awareness is the first […]
Redefining ‘Muscle Firing’
Tom Morrison Have you ever been told or thought that a certain muscle just isn’t firing? Unfortunately, a muscle firing has nothing to do with cool laser beams shooting from your double bicep pose… much to my immense disappointment… but instead it’s a much more confusing term that has people scratching their heads […]
“Sensemaking” & the Senses
Seth Dellinger “NOW it all makes sense!” Hear those words in your head and yes, perhaps you are in the midst of a life-changing insight. But it’s also possible that you just opened the door to a dangerous delusion with significant consequences for your way of being in the world. Both mental moves involve similar […]
When Performance meets Awareness
Jenn Pilotti & Adarian Barr *Weekly conversations between these two can be found at Women Running Cafe.
Guarded Movement
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