The Art is Long: Big Health and the New Warrior Activist
I would learn that the capacities to keep a beat and mirror other people’s movements are both related to empathy.
Kelly McGonigal • The Joy of Movement: How exercise helps us find happiness, hope, connection, and courage
To blend effectively one must act from a state of feeling and sensing; this requires us to live fully in our body. Blending asks us to be with someone in an extraordinarily intimate fierceness, to join with others in order to negotiate separateness, to transform aggression from discord to accord. This doesn’t mean compliance, acquiescence, or submi
... See moreRichard Strozzi-Heckler • The Leadership Dojo: Build Your Foundation as an Exemplary Leader
“A mind is so closely shaped by the body and destined to serve it that only one mind could possibly arise in it. No body, never mind. For any body, never more than one mind. … Body-minded minds help save the body.”
Karin Rugman • Moving Consciously: Somatic Transformations through Dance, Yoga, and Touch
When you let yourself be moved by music, you lay down tracks in your nervous system, pathways for joy to traverse when you hear that song again. I know that when I choose to dance today, I am building muscle memories of joy, giving my future self more songs to be moved by.