I must start with a piece from environmentalist Paul Hawken. He writes in The Ecology of Commerce – A Declaration of Sustainability: “In our pursuit of growth at any cost, we have mimicked an immature ecosystem with unlimited resources. A mature economic system would appreciate an ancient forest [...]
Research shows that having abundant social support trumps healthy lifestyle habits. Malcolm Gladwell wrote about this phenomena in his first chapter of Outliers where he tells the tale of The Roseta Effect. The Roseta Effect is named after Italian immigrants (originally from a town in Italy called Roseta Valfotore) [...]
A few days back I had a Skype chat with my dear friend and dance teacher Elia Mrak. It was unrehearsed and REALLY FUN! He and I are gearing up for a weekend workshop in Vancouver, BC, we want to give people an idea about our philosophies, our teaching [...]
If some higher God-like source were to tell me I could only teach one movement lesson for the rest of my life it would be this: Teaching people how to move from standing on two feet to lying on the ground completely flat on their backs and then to [...]
I will admit that this weekend my body has been sore. The good kind of sore. Here's Why I did an intense series of "leg exercises" the other day at the local YMCA. I put leg exercises in quotations because it wasn't a generic squat or machine-driven leg exercise [...]
Not too long ago a good friend of mine said to me, "You know, if I had to run for my life, I'd die." At the time she was struggling with knee and hip issues that were causing a lot of pain. The thought of having to run for [...]
When we are doing dynamic activities, such as skiing, we want our big muscle groups to be on-line in such a way that they get active when the time is appropriate, and then inhibited when they are no longer needed. The key words for optimal sports performance are Adaptability and Resiliency. Not [...]
Years ago, must have been in ~2004/05, I remember seeing this person I'm writing about in the recreation centre I use to work at. I remember thinking how all his "nitty gritty exercises" were doing more harm than help.  But I was too shy to say, "Hey, I could show [...]
"It's appalling how we disuse the body." Says Steve Paxton, the founder of contact dance improvisation. I've written about what he speaks about, his ethos if you will, in a blog post from last year titled "Would you drive a Ferrarri that way?." Check out the video below. If [...]
Every now and then, I come across a person that I get a smitten with. Their writing, ideas, art, creativity and basically their guts to do what they love, go for it, and never look back. I've met a lot of these people and am blessed to have them [...]
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