Category: embodiment
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The Paradigm Shift and the Body: Meaningful Change Happens From Within
The Paradigm Shift and the Body: Meaningful Change Happens From Within. I am in a pretty unusual position. I am a healer, historian and a somatic social theorist with an anatomically specific focus on the role that the body plays in psychology, culture and history. I did my undergraduate work at Columbia and doctoral research…
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A Handful of Bones
I teach a handful of bones along the axial line, part of the myofascial synergy called the deep core by Thomas Myers. It’s our postural center. The bones are central, prominent coordination centers facilitating interoception, stability and balance. They are shaped like grips and levers and are practically speaking bony servomechanisms for co-operating or conscious…
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The Paradigm Shift is Interoception.
Simple as that.
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Meaning, Value and Moral Priority
Meaning, value and moral priority come from within life itself. They don’t emerge from intellectual activity, no matter how impressive or authoritative it seems. The problem with our world is that it has been born from bad faith. Neither the invisible hand of the market nor the homeostatic properties of the natural world are going…
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A Theory of Biomechanical Enlightenment: Metastability, the Interoceptive Sensorymotor System and Consilience
AI is a form of machine learning that requires an unsustainable and exponentially taxing amount of human and environmental resources. I argue that rather than a top down control type of technological approach to AI characteristic of modern science we look to the nature of the complexity of life itself and seek an organic and…
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I am excited about this
I have recently found a new approach to the deep core that I am really loving. It is a form of bioenergetics taught by a chiropractor that focuses on meditative activation of the anchor sites of the axial line. She uses chakra sites but takes a very practical and physical approach to it. These anchor…
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A Prospective Guide for Muscle Monks
(What follows is my comment on a wonderful post on becoming a Tea Monk on Substack by the Peaceful Revolutionary.) I have decided to become a Muscle Monk. I use capital letters sometimes because it is very important. I loved your piece/peace on becoming a tea monk and will have to read this new author,…
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Prosocial Embodiment Workshop 6: Embodying Prosociality
Embodying Prosociality Prosocial Embodiment Circle: Workshop 6 Monday August 26 2024 @ 3-4:30pm PDTRSVP: https://calendar.app.google/BLMHayRFr89WVhRe6 —– Evolution happens in the body and at Prosocial Embodiment we deal with it in the body. How do we embody Prosociality? It is a simple but profound question. What does it mean to embody something? What does it mean to…
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Postural Collapse
A post on thread in Deep Adaptation Forum about “What is Collapse?” ———-My very serious focus is on what I call postural collapse. This means the collapse of our structure. In the fight, flight and play dead spectrum of the defense cascade when we are overwhelmed we collapse. Even a small amount of trauma can…
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Embodied Cognition and Collective Intelligence
It is very clear that in nature there is an evolutionary drive to greater and greater levels of complexity—but not without harmony, integration and, sustainability. From this perspective it would seem inevitable that something like collective intelligence would eventually emerge in the course of human cultural evolution. Indeed we can already identify in the ecosystem…
Three Bones Theory 