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Women’s Day, or awareness of negative enculturation

The forthcoming Women’s Day gives me another opportunity to talk about raising awareness of our enculturation. Celebrations and ceremonies, in all societies and cultures, often have an enlightened meaning. But in many cases they merely perpetuate a passive enculturation without offering any practice of enlightened discernment or intellectual emancipation.I’m not particularly fond of celebrations, I…

Breathing, what’s the point?

I was climbing mountain this morning together with thinking of that question asked by a student after our yesterday Awareness Through Movement lesson. Her question was like this: 为什么呼吸要在运行中,交叉?意义何在? Which I understand in this way: Why do we coordinate those movements with our breath? Why do we cross in the middle, designing a “8”? What’s…

Consistent Dialogue and Happiness

Do you remember how you felt during that conversation when the other person kept interrupting you, seeming not to pay attention to what you were saying? Frustrated? Disappointed? Angry? Maybe all of the above… Listening Listening to the other without interrupting.Listening without waiting for our turn to speak.Listening not without judging, but listening while being…

From Inside Out

You have probably heard the sentence: “From inside out”, referring to the ability our inner world has to express towards the outside, to become the expression of our potential. Both used in some spiritual practices and psychology schools. With Inside Moves and Feldenkrais Method, we explore this fundamental pattern of our body being organized for…