Remember to actually get up and practice along with these if you are in a spot where you can get down.
Here is the first lesson:
Bouncing up and down, then switching feet to experiment with weight shifts.
All dancing happens from the feet up although neurological phenomena travel down to the feet and color your movement and experience. These are called descending tracts in spine
Here is the first demo.
Bouncing is also important for fascial health. Tune into the joints. Feel the bracing motion as your bounce down and the effortless "pop" that happens when you bounce up. If you can pay attention to the breath as well (lot to ask)
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In the same way that people find a drug of choice like Heroin or Religion or Sports, we each also have a different plant medicine that draws us into its machinations. For me that is Iboga, not ayahuasca. More on Iboga here:
That being said, I'm fascinated by ayahuasca and its rapid ascension to most known of the very intense transformative psychedelics and I want to try to piece together the pharmacology and signficance of it even though the US federal government makes that incredibly hard.
I don't think people who weren't there can understand how fascinating and beautiful it was to live in San Francisco in the years 2008-2015.
Tech optimism was universal, yet SF also had the full flowering of transformational psychology. The wierdos had finally won.
There wasn't yet the hint that this tech thing might sweep across the world and cause the kind of transformation that would come with unintended consequences, some of which would rattle the very core of who we think we are. Looking back now, it seems a bit naive.
If you had the right university degree, you could come in and participate in this gold rush where everyone was changing the world with the assumption that that change would bring only the Good. 20 years old were becoming millionaires and it seemed like anyone could do it.
The best analogy I have for helping to visualize this devilishly difficult piece of anatomy to visualize is to see it as the forest through which the cells of your body wander and attach to. This stuff is really bizarre.
Before moving on, if you want to understand the overarching category to which the ECM belongs, check out this thread on connective tissue, with links to other types of connective tissue:
About 4 years ago, I found myself at the lowest point of my life. A chronic health issue had left me bedridden and I finally gave up, knowing that I could not handle it by myself any longer. I started looking for people who could guide me out of the abyss.
I had been meditating for at least 10 years at this point. I was an autodidact, self-taught. I had done maybe 5 or 6 ten-day meditation retreats. I had significant experience with meditation yet still I was stuck in a way that I could not see an exit.
So I thought I would find someone who was more experienced than me to show me a way out. I found someone on Quora who kept on answering my questions with seemingly solid historical answers about traditional forms of meditation.
It seems that just like the fall of the Berlin Wall and the end of World War II before it, we have now transitioned into something new, a new state of the global political order.
What shall we call it? Will China be the king domino or are we in store for something novel?
I think often times we are blinded by history and many today see the rise of China in the same way that the US rose during World War II.
Yet China has intense demographics that make elderly Europe look like a youthful child. Russia certainly isn't going to be the savior.
I wonder if we are currently entering a stage where we entirely reject the western philosophical tradition yet fail to replace it with anything else that unifies the world.
I'm unhappy about the loss of the western philosophical tradition so I could be pessimistic on this.
What I'm really enjoying about Pilates so far is it's distinct lack of "super-spirituality" and its entire focus on the human body and its interaction with various props. I've found that traditional Yoga is more about destroying this idea that we are just the body.
Paradoxically, pilates is more realistic about just training the body in order to live a happy and healthy life as opposed to modern yoga which celebrates the sensuality of the body and traps us into mere sensuality while pretending to be "super-spiritual", look at Instagram