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Body, Movement and Nervous System Articles
¡THE B❌DY BL⭕️G!
FIND YOUR X
Where we talk about all the Xs—whether they live in Texas or the body, and no matter the weather.
Support the Foot, Not the Compensation
The foot is not a block at the bottom of the body. It is the body meeting the world. Follow the Fluid Vernacular Vertical Vertebrate Foot from calcaneus and talus through gait, pelvis, deep core, rib cage and cranium—and discover the difference between supporting the foot and supporting its compensations.
The Tango Body Method
Our first Spanish word is: Abrazo. Hug. And that may be a very good place to begin, because before tango becomes steps, figures, technique, leading, following, musicality or anything else we might eventually call dancing, two vertical human bodies have to meet. But first, there is only one. Yours. DANCING WITH MYSELF Stand up and notice. There you are. A vertical vertebrate balanced on two relatively small feet, with a heavy head at the top, a long articulated spine underneat
Your Mystic Body Manifesto
Presto — Find Your Square One! Not everyone loves square one. You roll the dice. “Go back to square one.” It feels like losing. We want to get ahead. We want to know what’s next. We want to leap across the board. But your body is not a board game. It is a living organism—of movement, perception, and possibility. So we return. Not as punishment. As orientation. Stand up. Land on your own two feet. Barefoot, or in socks. Feel the ground. This is the crux: Your feet are not here
Sitting Duck Yoga
The Fine Art of Not Giving a Quack. There is letting go, and then there is Let Go. Most of us are already quite familiar with the first: We let go when we get a massage. We let go in Savasana (the Yoga nap). We let go on vacation, in the bathtub, after the second glass of wine, during a walk in the woods or for twelve miraculous minutes before somebody sends us a text that requires an immediate and unnecessarily complicated response. Then we pick everything back up. This is p
The Spine That Holds Itself
A Low Back Remedy There is a peculiar thing humans do when they are worried about their backs: they hold them. We tighten the abdomen, stiffen the lumbar, pull the shoulders back, brace the core and generally try to make ourselves into something structurally reassuring. If the back feels vulnerable, it seems perfectly reasonable to hold it more. If something hurts, hold it still. If something feels weak, make it stronger. If the spine seems unstable, stabilize it. This can wo
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