Intention & Attention
Nicki Miller The visual says it all.
Embracing Discomfort
Seth Dellinger “When you realize that suffering and discomfort are the call to inquiry, you may actually begin to look forward to uncomfortable feelings” – Byron Katie When I was a child, perhaps five or eight years old, I realized that some letters in the alphabet were ‘girls’ and some letters were ‘boys.’ […]
PE as an Existential Subject
Alex Sporticus “The existential thought, although comprised of diverse ideas and perspectives, describes self-awareness and the capacity to ask questions about our existence as the essential quality that makes us human. We are ‘thrown’ in to this existence, which is not of our choosing, and thus we will start out with certain possibilities and […]
The Thing About Daoism Is… (part 2)
Dare Carrasquillo Disclaimer: This article and my work are directed towards people who practice cultivation deliberately. My writing is primarily written to and for people who can take responsibility for their own life. People who work to help others – their students, clients, communities, etc. As such it may “skip over” very beginner level […]
The Thing About Daoism Is… (part 1)
Dare Carrasquillo “But, Actually…” For all the mytho-poetic rhetoric around hermits, enlightenment, non-action and immortality, Daoism is fundamentally about none of that whatsoever. At least, not in the ways that materialists think. …and if you think that somehow, you’ve escaped materialist philosophy, well, that’s how they got you. It’s baked in. Materialism, Scientism, Theism… […]
On Worth & Value
Gokce Sevinc Hall View this post on Instagram A post shared by Gökçe Sevinç Hall (@joy_g_wild)
Setbacks Are Normal
Tom Morrison When you start to feel like your body’s falling apart, it’s hard to know if you’re doing the right thing to fix it. After all, we have the Internet now… unlimited access to information of why things are right, or wrong, or right/wrong, or wrong sometimes but right others, and if […]
Bones, Grips, & the ‘Shameful’ Front of Pelvis
Jim Freda From the August 2024 Thinkmovement Co-Lab.
Waste, Resources, & Reserves
Nick Konow View this post on Instagram A post shared by N I C K K O N O W (@worldmvmnt)
Postural Cause & Effect
Jordan Terry View this post on Instagram A post shared by Adaptable Polarity (@adaptable_polarity) View this post on Instagram A post shared by @gioti_semertzidi
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 […]
Play with Purpose
Alex Sporticus A games-based approach can be mistakenly considered as a game-as-teacher approach. This is because children can learn from playing the game. The mistake is not that children can learn from playing the game. Of course they can. Children in PE can learn: nothing at all something without us something from peers something […]
Cartoontra (Deathclown Rules #3)
Dare Carrasquillo Tantra: The Sanskrit word ‘Tantra’ derives from the verbal root tan, meaning ‘to weave’, or ‘compose’, and refers to a type of instructional text, often written as a dialogue between a god and a goddess1. According to Padoux, the verbal root Tan means: “to extend”, “to spread”, “to spin out”, “weave”, “display”, […]
Theater of Precarity (Deathclown Rules #2)
Dare Carrasquillo [Part 1] Precarity (also precariousness) is a precarious existence, lacking in predictability, job security, material or psychological welfare. The social class defined by this condition has been termed the precariat. –from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Precarity Theater of Precarity is a theatrical application of death practice. Death practice means many things to many people and cultures, but I spent 8 months in 2022-2023 explaining […]
Correction is Needed for Mastery
Brendan Lea Transcription: Hello ladies and gentlemen, Brendan Lea from Consciousness and Skill Worldwide. Welcome back! As you can see, I’ve made some changes, which is probably the first thing I want to talk about. Here is what I would like to talk to you about in this video: The relationship between […]
Bottlenecks of (Deep) Practice
Ramon Castellanos The Imbalances are Fractal If life itself is the practice, then the areas we neglect within practice, show us where we choose not to go (or are afraid to go). We all have unique dispositions, and these are best honored, so balanced development can often be asymmetrical, but not completely devoid of […]
Red, Black, & White Paths
Dare Carrasquillo (Sohei) “An Ode to ming/ Charles, my teacher.” 1.Red path talk: the red path is ruthless. It demands honesty beyond human preferences. The red path teaches by taking away, it is a path of conflict, of friction, of constant pressures. Most of us only have some red path leaning, some have […]
A Spectrum of Teaching Styles
Alex Sporticus “Teaching needs to be deliberate as we don’t want to succeed at random, but we want to gain a deeper understanding of our successes and failures.” (Mosston, 1966). Mosston and Ashworth’s Spectrum of Teaching Styles (SoTS) offers PE Teachers, both novice and expert, a clear framework of teaching within the subject. […]
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 […]