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My Personal and Family Adventures
Lalita’s Travels Prologue
PROLOGUE – December 2020 Buying Lalita I’d been talking about a van for a long time, peering around and inside the many parked along the Raglan foreshore, I’d even enquired about and inspected several old beasts for sale. What I wanted was clear – long wheel base,...
Lalita’s Travels Chapter One
CLIMBING PIRONGIA WITH ARIA AND SCARLETT Late January I set out with two of my grandchildren – Aria and Scarlett, aged eight and seven – on a ten day camper van trip. We had been away for a couple of nights earlier just to see how it was, the three of us, sharing this...
Lalita’s Travels Chapter Two
TE ARAROA AND THE TIMBER TRAIL WITH BRIAN – OCTOBER 2022 It’s time to take Lalita on another adventure, because spring is here. The day of our departure is grey and damp. We’ve had lots of grey damp days here in Raglan, but the forecast predicts sun for tomorrow. We...
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Introducing Kum Nye – Moving Meditation
An introduction to Kum Nye – the essence of moving meditation.
The Body as an Intelligent, Sensitive, Living Organism
Somatics and somatic movement classes grew out of Feldenkrais, and developed alongside new research into neuromuscular reprogramming. Somatics is based on the principle of neuroplasticity – the understanding that the brain is continually remodelling itself in response...
The Symphonic Body
Reflections arising from a Somatics Practice Part 3 – The Symphonic Body The skeletal structure of the body is an intriguing confusion of so many curves and angles and knobbly bits. In particular I find the pelvic bone almost impossible to visualise internally – it...
