Movement class video segments
If you missed Pantheacon, you missed out on some great workshops, including mine. However Kat took some videos of the workshop I taught, and I’ve included a couple here. You can view all of them on my youtube channel or on my Facebook page. Here’s the second video ShareTweet
Dream Yoga work
I’ve recently been integrating into my dream work, dream yoga techniques from Tibetan Buddhism. What I’ve mainly done for the moment is breathing techniques that you do right before you go to sleep. I like to integrate steps of a new practice gradually. Kat’s also doing this practice. Even though we’ve just started with this [...]
Why the body is a pathway to the divine
I came across this article where a Baptist preacher has argued that doing Yoga goes against the Christian faith because it teaches that a person can experience the divine through the body. This isn’t surprising because so much of Christianity is about damning the body as a portal to sin instead of celebrating it as [...]
Melatonin and Tryptophan
Melatonin always appears as a dark skinned woman. she’s the polar opposite of serotonin, but also does similar activities in terms of balancing the neurochemistry of the body as well as a person’s emotional moods. She’s also helpful in cases of insomnia. She and serotonin can be worked with simultaneously in order to help with [...]
A definition of embodiment magic
Understanding the relationship of the body with the communication with the subconscious is important to realizing how the body can be worked with successfully. Learning how to embody an emotion or concept can be a useful way to understand the effect the emotion or concept has on your life. ShareTweet
Some further thoughts on embodiment work
When I first learned about the paratheatre technique, one problem I had with it was that I felt there was something missing from the explanation of the embodied space. Well more than something…a number of things actually. First what was missing was a concrete explanation of how we move through space. It seems to me [...]
Embodiment magic
A while back I’d written about some of my experiences with Laban, a form of physical movement. My main purpose for studying Laban was to learn more about the spatial realities of the body as well as how it moves through space, something I considered essential for really getting the methodology of paratheatre, which Antero [...]
Working with the monkey mind
One the issues that comes up in mediation is what Buddhists call Monkey Mind. It’s that troublesome voice that starts saying random messages to you and distracts you from meditating. For people who are trying to achieve a state of no mind, the monkey mind is particularly troublesome because its a reminder that your mind [...]
Cell communication
In developing a system of magic that is focused specifically on the body, one of the challenges has always been how do you actually communicate with the medium you are working with. Since the human body is the medium, it’s not enough to recognize you have a body, which anyone can do. To work with [...]
cell magic update
I’ve been teaching my student about working with the cells of the body and also with the organs of the body. And as the teacher teaches, so too should s/he be learning and revising what s/he is doing. Because I’m working with her, it’s allowing me to revisit these techniques in more depth. It also [...]
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- I finished the latest revision of Magical Identity, at 93,535 words. Off to the editor and then layout! Expect a pre-order post soon.
