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Discovering Joy Through Embodied Exercise
As philosopher Doug Anderson observed, “Movement has the power to bring us fully to what is most human about us.”
Kelly McGonigal • The Joy of Movement: How exercise helps us find happiness, hope, connection, and courage
Ideas emerge from bodily practices in two very different forms: from what is done to us, and what we do, both just going about our lives—infant handling, walking, sitting, breathing, studying; and deliberately chosen activities such as exercise regimens, dance, diet, and meditation practices.
Don Hanlon Johnson • Diverse Bodies, Diverse Practices: Toward an Inclusive Somatics
The body has a natural longing to feel its energy unleashed and coursing through limbs, activating a full, sensational wakefulness to the present.
Philip Shepherd • Deep Fitness: The Mindful, Science-Based Strength-Training Method to Transform Your Well-Being in Just 30 Minutes a Week
Exercise has, at various times in my life, rescued me from isolation and despair, fostered courage and hope, reminded me how to experience joy, and given me a place to belong.
Kelly McGonigal • The Joy of Movement: How exercise helps us find happiness, hope, connection, and courage
As I had come to reinhabit my emotions more fully, I noticed that my body also required its own loving attention and that it was not enough to see and understand or even to feel with love and compassion—I had to move further down the chakras. I learned that if I am to live a spiritual life, I must be able to embody it in every action: in the way I
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