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 […]

The Temperament of Impatience

Dave Wardman   “I learn it every day of my life, learn it with a pain I am grateful for: patience is everything!”  — Rainier Maria Rilke   A few days back I posted the above quotation into the Physical Alchemy Facebook group with this added preface text: [🌌] ‘C2rberus hates this one simple hack’. […]

A Taxonomy of Triggers (Part 2)

Dave Wardman   Properly understood the different classes and orders of triggering should yield a few key insights: 1) there are different classes of trigger. This means that there are different alchemical ‘works’ available to a human being – some being related to timeline issues, some unrelated to them [and thusly being ‘atemporal’, in a […]

A Taxonomy of Triggers (Part 1)

Dave Wardman   The observation of ‘trending’ phenomena on social media is essentially a study of the currents of a disenchanted sea or ocean. Categories of information, imagery, art, word and online behaviour all give us detail on the anatomy of Cerberus [the allegorical beast used within Physical Alchemy to represent the subliminal, specific ‘disenchantement […]

Body Cartography

Dave Wardman       [Feature Photo by Mikhail Nilov via Pexels.]  

The 3-Phase Repatterning Stretching Cycle

Dave Wardman   The last essay served as an introduction to the art of repatterning stretching:  its lore, heuristics, principles, aphorisms, and more.  It was largely theorum.  This second essay in a series of ‘class essays’ [essays designed to aid people dive into the repatterning stretching more fluidly] is more of the ‘applied theorum’ flavour. […]

Human Crossbow

Dave Wardman   [*] the human crossbow [ base ingredient ] I remember receiving a message from a very excited [K] about a ‘fantastic new pec stretch’, whilst he was overseas [japan?] teaching workshops. The stretch was, of course, the stretch that would go on to become known as ‘the human crossbow‘ [or ‘the crossbow’]. There is […]

The Shoulder Anchor

Dave Wardman   [*] the shoulder anchor    [a.k.a ‘shoulder push-down’, artist formerly known as ‘shoulder depression’] [base ingredient] Let us turn our attention, on this here Day of the Moon, to a real ‘crowd pleaser’ of a stretch.. at least in its basic form. The ‘shoulder push-down’; performed with one partner assisting from behind with two hands […]

Memetic Cadavery

Dave Wardman   [*] memetic cadavery I   Recently I shared a meme to this group entitled ’20-something year old thiiinkers’.   Now the attention-wave hath passed, I shall dissect it in terms of a ‘commentary on the disenchantment features’ it is poking fun at. On the other side of the earth it is still the […]

Terrestial Nostos

Dave Wardman   * ‘nostos’ is a Greek term connected to the Odyssey that means ‘homecoming’/’returning home via sea after long adventures’ but that carries with it an idea of spiritual homecoming.. perhaps even coming back to the beginning on a different level that when one left.   [*] terrestrial nostos After terrestrial nostos [νόστος]* I […]

A Culinary Metaphor (Describing Physical Alchemy)

Dave Wardman   People keep asking me:  what is Physical Alchemy?  How does it differ from other physical methods? How is it similar? Are you just re-badging known methods with new terminology?!   ‘Just what do you think you’re doing, Dave?‘ Up until this point I have usually opted to answer this question in reverse: […]

Neurobation

Dave Wardman   Neurobation: the tedious and unnecessary use of brain science terminology when every day words will suffice. It’s a thang. Caste your gaze around social media and you will not doubt its increased prevalence. It has strongly entered the physical work sphere. It has even proceeded into the C2rberus and C1rberus segmentation of the […]

Qu3stions

Dave Wardman   [*] ‘questions’, qu3stions, questions [Day 12 of 60] This video we take a dive into the ‘questioning of questions’. Meta, I know – but that is where I reside. Between the seeming binary of: dictatorial ‘no questioning’ and free-for-all clusterfuckery, is a third way. The mindshape filter allows us to look into what makes […]

The Dissonant Whispers

Dave Wardman   [*] the dissonant whispers This triangle [in link above until I can figure out how to resize it for Dreamwidth] is of course the inner triadic nucleus of an enneagram concerning the life-cycle of the Physical Alchemy Facebook group.*  Dissonance is the 3-point.  Education the 6-point.  Inspiration the 9-point.  I am telling you […]

General Preparatory Studies

Dave Wardman   I had three quotes in mind for this piece but have only found two of them. Not to matter, as this will be a topic that I will return to a number of times and add depth to.  It is something I have an ongoing curiosity with. The basic premise is something along […]

The Body Alchemical (the Yoga Post)

Dave Wardman   ‘In contemporary yoga practices we often jump into the third limb, of āsana, and end up with a fragmented and imbalanced yoga practice, because it has no roots.  The rooting of a practice occurs when one starts at the beginning with the ethical codes that Patañjali outlines as the stepping-stones to further […]

Circle, Triangle, Square

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Amnesia of the Felt Senses

Dave Wardman   There is many times more information available on stretching than when I began studying and practicing it. There are many aspects to this – auspicious, suspicious and inauspicious. Much of the research and debate focuses on the efficacy (or lack thereof) of its use in improving range of movement and its therapeutic […]