Fitness is defined in evolutionary biology as the “fit” between organism and environment, and is ostensibly about the physical body, physical health, and the organism’s ability to survive physically in the natural environment. But modern humans no longer have to adapt their bodies to survive physically in the natural environment; instead, they adapt the [...]
This is a fascinating technique that I stumbled across a few years ago and have never really used, but I was reminded of it recently.
Serge Kahili King, a Caucasian teacher of Huna, presented it in his book Urban Shaman:
Repatterning
A long time ago, so long that I can’t remember the source, I learned that if you [...]
Read this article about an exciting new fitness system coming into existence, based on natural/primitive human body dynamics.
Our workouts are domesticated, while the world out there is still plenty wild. In a pinch, can a man put gym-generated biceps and tank-tread abs to any real use? Could it be that our treadmill-running, elliptical-gliding, well-oiled Cybex [...]
Body Beyond Civilization, Part 1: The Modern Body
Jun 3rd, 2009 by Pathfinder in Society
Welcome to our new contributing author, Pathfinder. See a short bio of Pathfinder on the About page.
Being a modern alternative medicine practitioner in modern day America, one of the biggest challenges you face is that ultimately what is at the root of what is wrong with almost all of your patients is that they [...]
Having established a certain degree of grounding in our experience of our own health, it’s worth it to start exploring goals.
I’d like to set the bar sky-high by looking at a few accounts of, for lack of a better term, superhuman feats.
Ernest Thompson Seton, in Gospel of the Redman, wrote,
The most famous runner of ancient [...]
The importance of rooting in the body can’t be understated. All of the methods I’ve described to establish a baseline of body and health awareness are not only to gather data, but to acquaint one’s own consciousness with the lived experience of inhabiting and using a body and being a physically alive being in [...]
Digestion
Jun 2nd, 2009 by David in Diet and Digestion
People who do-it-yourself with their health often put much of their emphasis on diet, possibly because it is in part the most obvious thing you can control. There really is a lot that can be affected by your food choices and many other factors involving how and when you eat, and why. But [...]
So now what? How do we start the process of adjusting to a wider world of climatic forces? In this post I outline a way to orient yourself toward that, which I’m currently using myself. It’s an experiment in progress.
Opening that door and stepping out into the elements is, in many ways, [...]
Here’s a podcast about improving your vision, integrated with rewilding games, from Willem Larsen.
In this seemingly tangential podcast, I further explain the use of the sensory tune-up game, and talk about how every game we play has both diagnostic and therapeutic properties. I speak a little bit of the history of Vision Therapy, the improvement [...]