Health - General
- Everyone and anyone can dance, because dancing is not only about performing. Dance is not even about being together, you can dance alone. Dance is not about dancing to music, you can dance in silence. So of course everybody can dance — and not only can, should .
from Ohad Naharin - The Talks by Emma Robertson
Lael Johnson added 2d ago
Dance is for all who desire to move expressively, with rhythm, or in the spirit of the moment. Dance is global and primal, not just for those who train to perform on stage. As somatic innovator Gabrielle Roth liked to say: “If you have a body, you are a dancer.”
from Moving Consciously: Somatic Transformations through Dance, Yoga, and Touch by Karin Rugman
Lael Johnson added 4d ago
Yoga, which is considered a “top-down” practice (meaning that the brain sets the intentions that the body follows), can be an especially powerful means of helping the mind settle into the present moment by focusing our attention as we practice channeling our breath and challenging our body.
from How to Do the Work: Recognize Your Patterns, Heal from Your Past, and Create Your Self by Nicole LePera
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"Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of a cancer cell."
– Edward AbbeyLael Johnson added 12d ago
- Technology moves fast. Biology moves slowly
Lael Johnson added 16d ago
massage is physical therapy
Lael Johnson added 1mo ago
- The human body employs hundreds of feedback loops to keep your blood pressure, body temperature, glucose levels, calcium levels, and many other processes at a stable equilibrium.
from The Paradox of Behavior Change by James Clear
Lael Johnson added 1mo ago
- Often during busy days, breathing becomes shallow, using only the top part of the lungs. But the best oxygen exchange happens at the bases of your lungs.
Lael Johnson added 1mo ago