HeyJaredField Notes From The Body
A pilgrimage into the world of embodied anatomy, somatic psychology, and contemplative movement.
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THE FLESH OF THE WORLD: where does the body begin and end? (opens the original)
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In The Lived Body edition of Field Notes, I introduced Merleau-Ponty’s proposition that the body isn’t where the mind happens to live but instead is the site of the earliest stages of experience and meaning-making. In this edition of Companion Notes, we’ll follow this idea as it widens from one body, to two, and then to the world. We’ll look at what happens when a skill becomes so practised it no longer needs thinking about, at shared embodied experience, and at an idea about the boundary betwee
The Body I Almost Missed (opens the original)
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For forty years, I’ve been on the trail of what it means to be “embodied”. I began from the place of my physical body, then my bodymind, and more recently my soma. As a yoga practitioner and later as a teacher, I first studied anatomy the way most of us are taught: from the outside in. Books. Plastic models. Diagrams and animations. Always as the observer. This approach quite literally turned inside out, when my yoga path began interlacing with somatic practices.<a class="image-link image2 is-vi
THE LIVED BODY: a glimpse from the world of phenomenology (opens the original)
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Isn’t philosophy about wrestling with abstract ideas and intractable problems? Deep conversation held in the ivory towers of academia, or the cafes of Europe where the air was probably thick with the scent of Gauloises? What could philosophy possibly have to do with our everyday embodied enquiries?Because philosophers concern themselves with big questions about life, the universe and everything, there are some who take lived-experience rather than abstract theory as their starting point for unde
Field Notes: August (opens the original)
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The worrying intensity of summer heat continued here through August, with a little bit of cooling off as wind and rain returned over the final weekend. Green is reappearing between the dry, hollow stalks of harvested wheat and barley, and long-sleeved t-shirts are resurfacing from the drawer. Major highlight of the month was the publication of the book I co-authored with Theo Wildcroft - Leading Safe and Simple Yoga Nidras - about all things yoganidra from history to science to practice. We have
COMPANION NOTES: the fibula, not quite the Odysseus of your shin (opens the original)
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In the latest edition of Field Notes, we went on a search for the fibula and found it running the full length of the shin next to the tibia. We noted its role in assisting the motion of the ankle, applauding its spontaneous adjustments that help us over uneven terrain and to stand balanced on one leg. Now, we travel further, tracking a pathway of weight or force from the foot to spine. Then we’ll reflect on the helper nature of the fibula in its role in bone grafts and how this opens up question
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