Category: embodied

Lessons from Russia

Things working in Russia taught me last year: – traumatised people like certainty, but mystery is also a form of defence – advice is not something you ask for it’s …

Objectification

Objectification isn’t something that just happens to women in sexist adverts. Objectification is the central theme of the modern world – turning people into objects, human beings into cogs in …

Viewing the body objectively

A glory of Western medicine, science and art is to view the body objectively. This has been a truly great achievement that we all benefit from daily, not to be …

Freedom of Movement

Freedom of movement is a basic UN Human right, yet this needs to be taken more literally. Being able to move and therefore to feel, is freedom of being. All …

Ways to stop war

Ways to stop war: – do internal peace work like meditation and yoga – stop supporting companies which benefit from war – stop voting for politicians who make war – …

Embodied Yoga Principles Workshop in Moscow

Some great pictures from an Embodied Yoga Principles workshop in Moscow. Yoga with an emphasis on self-knowledge and transfer to life (not body-beautiful athleticism or hindu mythology). Where else do …

Media’s Mental Pollution

I’m tired of being subjected to images like this when I wait for a train. Questions: – why are most fashion models children? – why are those children sexualised? – …