The Talus
Jordan Terry “The human talus has no muscular attachments, which makes it a truly unique and important bone. It is also considered a keystone of the body.” View this post on Instagram A post shared by Adaptable Polarity (@adaptable_polarity)
Guest Post #7 – Translating Point of Contact
Nicole Uno Fist to False-Grip | Ground to Rings As body angles change to adjust exercises, (whether to make them easier or more difficult), it can also cause thinking to shift away from concept-based objectives and toward specific task-based objectives. Typically, task-based objectives beg to be completed rather than understood. On one end […]
The Transverse Arch
Christine Ruffolo Everything I know about the transverse arch, I owe to Adarian Barr. The following is my attempt to take his words and concepts and relate them to my own body and understanding. It is, in effect, my translation. The layers and spirals in which I learn and interpret are laid out here […]
Breathwork & Posture
Gary Stockdale
Sleep & Decision Making
Tyler Wall
Start with Universe – Structure (Part 4)
Jordan Terry Part 1 of this series. Part 2 of this series. Part 3 of this series. Humans have a fluidity to them that buildings (even tensegrity building structures) rarely have. “When energy becomes manifest, it immediately sets up a polarized dynamic, creating the fundamental form of energetic flow called the Torus. Everything, […]
Start with Universe – Structure (Part 3)
Jordan Terry Part 1 of this series. Part 2 of this series. “Tensegrity in this sense is an applied principle– a map of the nature of structure.” In my opinion, this is right in line with Gary Ward and his Flow Motion Model, which provides a map to human structure and movement. As […]
Start with Universe – Structure (Part 1)
Jordan Terry “Start With Universe” – Buckminster Fuller “One of Bucky’s primary tenets is, `Start with Universe.’ The initial relevant context is the whole Universe, and from there you peel away irrelevancies until you find the scale and relationships that are most relevant to the inquiry at hand. As a comprehensivist, he was naturally […]
Capitalizing on Color
Christine Ruffolo It’s been about a month since the Embodiment Conference came and went. Since, there have been many claims and a good amount of evidence that the headpiece to the summit, Mark Walsh, isn’t a great guy. As someone who spoke at his summit, I’ve been sitting with possible courses of action (which […]
Neo-Guild Structure for the 21st Century
Dave Wardman [*] Historical perspectives One of the long term projects happening behind the scenes at Physical Alchemy involves changes to the architecture behind the method and rekindling of the idea of a Guild as a central hub for education. In medieval cities people gathered together in guilds based on their crafts. These […]