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Posted on May 4, 2015 12:35 pm by Emma

‘The environmental crisis has deep attitudinal roots.  To restore our environment we need to heal our relationship with it, and that means healing the split in the psyche that cuts us off from the material world.  It means revisioning the relation of mind and matter.  The bulldozing of nature and the abuse of our own bodies reveal the depth of this separation, the fear it engenders, and the need to control… Matter itself, if we attend to it mindfully and gracefully, can help liberate us from delusion; for it is mind, not matter, that is in bondage.’  Joanna Macy, World as Lover, World as Self




Posted on April 30, 2015 2:46 pm by Emma

Sensing your own body is more complicated than you realize

Proprioception

‘Close your eyes and touch your nose. If everything is working properly, this should be easy because your brain can sense your body, as well as its position and movement through space. This is called proprioception.’  Full article here

Interoception“Proprioception is when you hold your arms out, close your eyes, and you can touch your nose. If you just hold your arm out and close your eyes, how do you know you have an arm? The internal subjective experience of an arm: that’s interoception. It generally goes along slower pathways.“ Source

Interoception

‘Proprioception is when you hold your arms out, close your eyes, and you can touch your nose. If you just hold your arm out and close your eyes, how do you know you have an arm? The internal subjective experience of an arm: that’s interoception. It generally goes along slower pathways.

Interoception connects differently in the brain, it’s much more associated with consciousness.’  From here

Dissociation

‘There’s a real skill to be in the body and it’s really hard work and it’s often our mind likes to do things quickly and there’s this quick default assumption that our body is there, and often it’s not often there as much as it could be.’

Click here to listen to the full podcast with Steve Haines.




Spring

Posted on March 23, 2015 8:34 am by Emma

“It was one of those March days when the sun shines hot and the wind blows cold: when it is summer in the light, and winter in the shade.” Charles Dickens, Great Expectations

This week’s classes are all about spring cleaning.  We’ll be rooting down to spring up, spending time twisting, balancing, and listening to how our feet communicate with our body.




Disconnection

Posted on November 3, 2014 12:00 pm by Emma

‘Disconnection from the body is a cultural epidemic. We are taught to control the body by way of the mind, which is considered far superior. But the body has an intelligence whose mysteries the mind has yet to fathom. We read in books how to eat, how to make love, how much sleep to get, and impose these practices on the body rather than listening from within. Without the body as a unifying figure of existence, we become fragmented. We repress our aliveness and become machine-like, easily manipulated. We lose our testing ground for truth.’

Anodea Judith Eastern Body Western Mind.




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