This post is related to AIS but is also very important in “technique free” body context. It relates to the hip socket. In one of the exercises that we were doing at the AIS workshop, a cross body leg stretch that used the adductors (inner thigh) to stretch the abductors (side of the buttocks/hips) one [...]

Practicing
Life Skills
Most of the things that we can practice with the dance of shiva can be applied to anything we do. They include:

learning to break complex tasks into simpler ones,
sensing and choosing options,
knowing what we are doing before we do it.

One of the advantages of the Dance of Shiva is that it provides a good [...]

In Malcolm Gladwell’s book Outliers I believe the opening of the book is the most important and telling part. (A village in Pennsylvania where people are very healthy and it’s not because of their diet.) That the people who are most healthiest are those who interact with other people.
What does interaction involve?
Speaking and listening in [...]

Art and Plumbing-You do art when you make change that matters, and do it via a connection with an individual. A great waitress or conductor or politician can make art. So can David, who cleans the tables at Dean and Deluca. Art isn’t the job, it’s the attitude you bring to the job and work [...]

A baby isn’t necessarily a hassle but it can be a challenge when you are trying to get things done or do some of the things that we enjoy. Leo Babauta wrote an entry about dealing with disruption here.
My own feelings are that if time is limited because of disruptions then we may [...]