Intelligence
Disconnect to Reconnect
What have we gained from our modern existence? What have primitive cultures been in relentless defiance to preserve? Is it fire making, shelter building, hunting and foraging skills? Why look for food when you can buy them? Why make clothes or furniture when these can easily be purchased online? Why gather around a fire when the internet is accessible through…
Read MoreAdaptation – Movement Infrastructure Reboot
The Enigma of the human brain began to unravel in the Inagural talk by Santiago Ramón y Cajal at the International Medical Congress held in Rome in 1894. Cajal was the first to suggest that the flow of information in neurons passes from the axons of the presynaptic cell to the dendrites of the postsynaptic cell – “the law of…
Read MoreThe Human Body – An Instrument for the State of Flow
We work tirelessly to manage our busy lives while taking care of our body acquires a secondary priority. When our body’s take the backseat in our lives, it begins to accumulate physical ailments such as chronic back pain, weak joints and mental aliments such as depression, anxiety and ADHD. By bringing our awareness back into the…
Read MoreEvolution of Locomotion
This post has been Co-authored with Leticia from the Montessori Community. Our landscape shapes our movement. When a kid grows up in the forest, their movement patterns are adapted to the subtleties of moving on uneven surfaces and their senses magnified to create a multi sensory map to predicting the world around them. Our modern landscape…
Read MoreLucy – Flirting with Reality?
The recent movie – Lucy invites a Paradigm shift. The movie dwells on some neuroscientifcally bewildering possibilities. The movie relies on the fact that humans use 10% of the capacity of their brains. The movie then follows the character “Lucy” who progressively unlocks 100% of her brain capacity. Here I explore some of the mind-blowing concepts from the movie –…
Read MoreThe Secret Language of Movement
What is movement? Where does it come from? Human movement patterns include but are not exclusive to – running, jumping, swimming, crawling, rolling, pulling, lifting, twisting, inverting and climbing. In this blog post I will reverse engineer movement and trace it back to its neural origins. I will explore concepts of movement efficiency, body intelligence,…
Read MoreParadox of Time
Time is an illusion. A phantom extension of our brains’ evolutionary development. The architecture of the human brain is not much different from that of other vertebrate species. The primitive regions of the brain still share the same function across vertebrates. One structure of the brain that is evolutionarily conserved and is inherently linked to…
Read MoreGenuine expression of Emotion
Emotions are neither Good nor Bad. But then, why do we have emotions in the first place? We often find ourselves driven by media dictated images, preferred standards of behavior and selective social trends. However – where is the space to express your true emotions. Why is there discomfort in expressing what we really feel?…
Read MoreMove with Presence
Movement is an experience. There is great beauty in the recognition of your own movement. Moving is in our innate nature. However to truly enjoy movement – Presence is necessary. Despite the disconnection from nature, our modern cities have an abundance of activities where presence is necessary in movement. Yoga, dance, ancient martial arts such…
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