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  • Podcast: The Tonic System

    An interdisciplinary and embodied meditation on the tonic system for all you somatic movement and body arts practitioners. 14min listen Read more

  • The cerebellar transform is the core.

    The cerebellar transform is the core.

    The cerebellar transform is the core. It appears to be a structural requirement in the physics of living things that there exists not only an outside and inside but a generative core in which is located the identity of the organism. The addition of the generative core makes perfect sense given the entire vertebrate phylum… Read more

  • Join me for the Natural Resonance Festival!

    I will present on embodied cognition and the cerebellar transform, through movement and music, in a community discussion panel: April 13 9am PST This video is a quick meditation on my topic… It’s a $10 ticket to the festival: https://www.naturalresonance.world/store/p/festival-ticket-2026 Schedule: https://www.naturalresonance.world/2026-nrf-events Read more

  • The tripartite synapse and the tonic neural tripod of mental balance.

    The tripartite synapse and the tonic neural tripod of mental balance. What we had always thought about the synapse, since Sherrington gave it its name, meaning “to grasp together” (syn-apse) Is that neurons communicated between each other in pairs. They were binary. Each neuron has thousands of synapses located along the branching dendrites, facilitating pattern… Read more

  • Where do you know the meaning of these words?: Self attention, the cerebellar transform, and the sensitive bony landmarks of the proprioceptive core. Anatomy is full of homologies, elements in a repeating pattern that is self validating, self evidencing, and generative. It should come as no surprise that a matching revolution follows quickly on the… Read more

  • The Generative Core

    The Generative Core

    The Generative Core The generative core is a characteristic shared by all living organisms and is a part of the perceptual model of life. While everything including inanimate matter, from a rock to a river or even a pair of pants and a tuba, all have an outside and an inside, only complex living systems… Read more