On this episode anatomy expert, bodyworker and yoga teacher Gary Carter joins Mark to discuss a depth approach to aesthetics, Scaravelli yoga, bodybuilding, dissection, fascia, ageing, Brazil, the fight-flight response and more! https://www.naturalbodies.co.uk/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2E6JRY9885Y http://www.gilhedley.com/ https://functionalfascia.com/
Aikido and meditation teacher Miles Kessler from Tel Aviv about coming down from the mountain and being of service. A wide ranging conversation including discussion on martial arts, form and creativity, ethics, Middle East peace work and online marketing. Evolution Of Response – https://store.theintegraldojo.com/p/eor-chart-download Centering Tutorial – http://theintegraldojo.com/centering/
This episode eco-psychologist and counsellor Dr Adrian Harris joins Mark to discuss the power of place and science. Links to relevant sites: Eco-therapy research: http://www.adrianharris.org/ecotherapy/research.htm Bodymind Place: http://www.bodymindplace.org Eco-psychology UK https://www.ecopsychology.org.uk/ Review: ‘The Body Knows Its Mind. The surprising power of the physical environment to influence how you think and feel’. (Recommended book …
Want to get it together under pressure? On this episode Mark introduces the idea of centring and state regulation, offers some practical exercises and tips for teaching centring safely and effectively.
In the first podcast Mark gives a thorough description of what embodiment is and is not; where it comes from, and tells his own embodied story through addiction, aikido, war zones and taking the work to business.
[et_pb_section bb_built=”1″ admin_label=”section” _builder_version=”3.0.47″ custom_padding=”0px|0px|0px|0px”][et_pb_row admin_label=”row” _builder_version=”3.0.47″ background_size=”initial” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″][et_pb_text admin_label=”Text” _builder_version=”3.0.47″ background_size=”initial” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat”] There are many different processes that can contribute to a sense of certainty in Aikido. Some are very different from others, but they all can have similar consequences. In this paper, we are going to consider some illustrative stories …
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A lot of my life has centred on first fighting, then coming to love the archetypal father. In a feminised society where boys are largely raised by women and masculinity mocked, repressed and despised, this is a hard journey. The world now embodies the supposedly caring but tyrannical mother of both state and counter culture. She …
Whatever the form, the purpose of terrorism is to produce a fight-flight state that perpetuates violence. Scared people hurt people, and hurt people hurt yet MORE people. This is the cycle of: violence-hindbrain dominance – more violence. This fight-flight reaction causes neo-cortical inhibition (you get stupid) and blocks the social engagement system (you get mean). …
We live in a badly self-regulated disconnected time. Basically we’re lonely toddlers in tantrum land. And yeah, me included many days. People buy shit they don’t need and do shit that hurts them to fill a void that can only be filled by meaning and community. We are cut off from ourselves, others and the …
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Practical resilience tools for troubled times So it’s all gone a bit crazy, right? Given the state of politics and the world generally right now, I thought I’d offer a few tips on keeping your head in the insanity. Well, more like keeping your body as those around lose theirs and blame it on you …
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