I often hear Contact Improvisation teachers emphasizing the importance of ‘keeping one’s own solo dance’ (variously phrased). What they...

At a recent workshop in Vienna, Ralf Jaroschinski proposed to reflect and approach contact improvisation from the point of view of...

I’m writing these notes on my way back from the 2024 Contact Improvisation Festival in Freiburg. It has been an incredible opportunity...

How do we establish authentic connections? How do we get in touch with one another in such a way that we are both honoured in what we...

What does it mean to be intimate? As most words, ‘intimacy’ brings with it a certain metaphorical gesture, even a bodily scheme. The word...

Turning 38 in a bit more than a month from now, I’m discovering that there is a truth in distinguishing different phases in life. This is...

When we interact in daily life, we are often in a sort of business or transaction mode: I do this, you do that; I give you X and you give...

It is common to hear appeals to ‘embodiment’ or complaints about being too much in your ‘thoughts’ (sometimes in your ‘head’ or ‘brain’,...

I spend quite some time without thinking much at anything. Often when I walk, or sit, or just attend to ordinary activities, I like being...

I’ve been pondering for quite some time one of Caravaggio’s paintings, the Boy bitten by a lizard. It came to me in a flash of intuition...

Over the past four months I’ve been discovering and experimenting with Contact Improvisation (CI). I’m primarily interested not so much...

I’ve heard from a student that it would be interesting to discuss how Buddhist teachings can shed light on romantic love. This is a...

I became interested in contemplative practices six years ago. For some reason, it didn’t remain a side hobby, but quickly became the...

Blindfolded by our little stories We roam prisoners of petty desires. Afraid of falling, we forgot how to Stand on earth and roll, and...

A bit of background In a couple of other posts (this and this) I have described the general idea behind free conscious movement (or the...

The following notes present a general vision and some practical guidelines for highlighting the potential of embodied conscious movement...

Experience is always about content and container, life-form and environment, center and horizon. Most often, our attention is focused on...

This year, I wanted to turn Global Hermeneutics (The Tragedy of the Self) into an occasion for exposing students the idea that genuine...

Embodiment is a process, not a state. Being in a body, having a body, living through a body are all events, not things. Not only do they...

The feeling of safety may be the most important component of spiritual and contemplative practices. Most attention goes often to how...