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How We Form and Move with Joanne Avison’

Grab a cup of tea, take a seat (or squat) and have a listen to this fascinating podcast from Joanne Avison on Liberated Body.  This will change the way you think about the body and how you move.  Here’s the synopsis:

Joanne Avison, author of Yoga, Fascia, Anatomy, and Movement, talks with me about fascia and why it has been overlooked historically (which includes a fascinating tour through the history of anatomy and its relationship to the Catholic church), how we form embryologically and what implications that has for biomechanics vs. biotensegrity (or biomechanics vs. biomotion). We also discuss what that changes when we have to reconfigure the language we use about movement and the body.

Click here for the interview.




‘In the first movement, our infancy as a species, we felt no separation from the natural world around us. Trees, rocks, and plants surrounded us with a living presence as intimate and pulsing as our own bodies. In that primal intimacy, which anthropologists call “participation mystique,” we were as one with our world as a child in the mother’s womb.

Then self-consciousness arose and gave us distance on our world. We needed that distance in order to make decisions and strategies, in order to measure, judge and to monitor our judgments. With the emergence of free-will, the fall out of the Garden of Eden, the second movement began — the lonely and heroic journey of the ego. Nowadays, yearning to reclaim a sense of wholeness, some of us tend to disparage that movement of separation from nature, but it brought us great gains for which we can be grateful. The distanced and observing eye brought us tools of science, and a priceless view of the vast, orderly intricacy of our world. The recognition of our individuality brought us trial by jury and the Bill of Rights.

Now, harvesting these gains, we are ready to return. The third movement begins. Having gained distance and sophistication of perception, we can turn and recognize who we have been all along. Now it can dawn on us: we are our world knowing itself. We can relinquish our separateness. We can come home again — and participate in our world in a richer, more responsible and poignantly beautiful way than before, in our infancy.’  Joanna Macy, World as Lover, World as Self

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Move Me

Posted on by Emma

Take part in this really interesting and exciting project created by Rachel Johnston. It will make you really think about how and why you move the way you do…

Here are the details:

**** ABOUT MOVE ME ****

Move Me is an ever evolving survey designed to prompt people to think more deeply about their bodies in terms of movement choices, habits and patterns.Created, curated and edited by Rachel Johnston, a yoga teacher and artist living and working in London, the project is about commonality; The one thing we all have in common is that we have to move to live.

Our most basic movement choices can mould us, literally. It is through choices of movement and the cellular loads created that our bodies become our autobiography. These choices and imperatives also demonstrate the connection between our appearance and our habits of mind, express our values and our politics, bond us with friends/family and function as our armor or disguise.

Human beings are not built to float. They need an earthly anchor of meaning and care so they don’t get lost in confusion. This survey, with your help, is my contribution to that anchor of meaning. The information gathered is being used on an ongoing blog and as part of an art project, both aim to express a riot of opinion and give a snapshot of the complexity of modern movement decisions with cultural influences: an ethnography of individual emotion; a portrait of the human body today revealing impulses that influence our daily ritual of being.

Anyone who has a body is invited to take part!

THANK YOU for taking the time to have a look. If you would like to be a part of the project then head over to the survey page or contact Rachel directly.