Action
efficiencies and grace; quake and execution re spacial motion
to splurge dance thoughts later
move to, from, around and between the beats.
General
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ideokinesis
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_technique
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feldenkrais_Method
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitzvah_Technique
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posture_release_imagery
Exercise
Workouts
Routine of some length for just before a bath or shower, make a habit, look to move up the numbers, add one or two other types into and around the mix.
Basics;
- 30 push-ups or more
- 30 sit-ups
- squats
even lift
Manual therapy
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manual_therapy
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Manipulative_therapy
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soft_tissue_therapy
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soft_tissue_technique
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myotherapy
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myofascial_release
Stretching
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Static_stretching
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Passive_stretching
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Active_stretching
to look into; explosive better first or not? effects on order?
Do the following for about 10s or more, depending on how worked your muscles end up feeling. Muscles relax into a stretch, but don't push it too far at first.
- Lean head and neck side to side, back and forth, to the diagonal, circle
- Shoulder circles to the back and front
- Arm across chest, hold back with other arm, arm to elbow
- Whole arm circles, forwards then back then alternating
- One arm down back, push elbow or hold down wrist
- Arms behind back, bend forward
- Swing arms around level to shoulders, palms with constant contact with body
- Bend legs, arm stretch down side, 10s, 15s
- Big hip circles, 15s, both ways then red and white figure of eight
- Stand on one leg, hold other, close eyes, 15s each
- Stand on one leg and stretch leg up back proper likes
- Sit
- Bring feet together near crotch and press down on knees, relax, again with heels closer to crotch
- One leg to side, knee on the ground, other foot to hip, stretch up then bend towards foot
- Same again but stretch to the side after foot
- Same again but with both legs to the front, knees flat on ground, relax, again
- One leg over the other, other foot towards bum, hold that leg in
- Bend legs below and lean back to floor
- Happy cat, angry cat, undulating cat forwards/backwards, DISCO [boots]cat!
Pilates
Massage
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Effleurage
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petrissage
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tapotement
Osteopathic
Osteopathy
Chiropractic
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chiropractic
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chiropractic_controversy_and_criticism
Bodywork
Yoga
See also Thinking#Hinduism
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yoga
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yogi
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yoga_as_exercise_or_alternative_medicine
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_yoga_schools
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Yoga_styles
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yoga_Yajnavalkya - classical treatise on yoga. second century BCE and fourth century CE, or 13th or 14th century CE.
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yoga_Sutras_of_Patanjali - 196 Indian sūtras (aphorisms) that form the theoretical and philosophical basis of Rāja Yoga
Three yogas
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_Yogas - Karma Yoga or the Path of Action, Bhakti Yoga or the Path of Devotion, Jnana Yoga or the Path of Knowledge
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bhakti_Yoga - efficacious for fostering love of, faith in, and surrender to God
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jnana_Yoga - knowing self (body and soul) so as to know the absolute, to vanquish the ego and identification with the body
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karma_yoga - the process of achieving perfection, authenticity and altruism in action
Eight limbs of rāja yoga
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R%C4%81ja_yoga - also ashtanga yoga
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yamas - first limb, don'ts
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niyama - second limb, dos
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asanas - third limb, body position, originally identified as a mastery of sitting still.
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pranayama - fourth limb, breathing exercises
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pratyahara - fifth limb, 'withdrawal of the senses', a bridge between the bahiranga (external) aspects of yoga and the antaranga (internal) yoga
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dh%C4%81ra%E1%B9%87%C4%81 - the sixth stage, step or limb of eight elucidated by Patanjali's Ashtanga Yoga, "collection or concentration of the mind (joined with the retention of breath)", "holding", "holding steady", "concentration" or "single focus".
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dhyana_in_Hinduism
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dhy%C4%81na_in_Buddhism
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam%C4%81dhi - the eighth and final limb, a higher level of concentrated meditation, or dhyāna
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samyama - Combined simultaneous practice of Dhāraṇā (concentration), Dhyāna (meditation) & Samādhi (union)
Practices
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mudra
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_mudras_(yoga)
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_mudras_(dance)
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pranava_yoga - also Aum yoga', classical method of meditation outlined in the Upanishads, the Bhagavad Gita, and the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Om - also ॐ', Aum
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siddhi - mystical "perfection", "accomplishment", "attainment", or "success".
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Six_Yogas_of_Naropa - 11th century, Indo-Tibetan Buddhist tantric practices and a meditation sādhana
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hatha_yoga - 15th/17th century, focusing on physical and mental strength building exercises and postures described primarily in three texts of Hinduism
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surya_Namaskara
- The twelve positions of Suryanamaskar by Isha Sharvani, Yoga
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vivekananda - key figure in the introduction of the Indian philosophies of Vedanta and Yoga to the Western world
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kriya_yoga - consists of a number of levels of Pranayama based on techniques, formulated in 1861 by Mahavatar Babaji through his disciple Lahiri Mahasaya
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siddha_Yoga - history?
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kundalini_yoga - also laya yoga, based on a 1935 treatise by Sivananda Saraswati, influenced by the tantra and shakta, involves regular practice of meditation, pranayama, chanting mantra and yoga asana
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ashtanga_vinyasa_yoga - style codified by K. Pattabhi Jois, often promoted as a modern-day form of classical Indian yoga. named after the eight limbs (Ashtanga, Sanskrit for "eight-limbed") of yoga mentioned in the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali.
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yoga_foot_drop - bodily damage from kneeling
Laughter yoga
- http://lyinstitute.org/
- http://www.laughteryoga.org/english
- http://www.laughternetwork.co.uk/
- http://www.laughteryoga.co.uk/
- ohn Cleese meets Dr Madan Kataria founder of Laughter Yoga
- http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-25669438
Meditation
- http://alohadharma.wordpress.com/2011/04/26/research-on-negative-effects-of-meditation/
- http://alohadharma.wordpress.com/the-map/the-dark-night/
Buddhist
See also Thinking#Buddhism
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satipatthana - foundations for (paṭṭhāna; pasthāna) or the presence of (Pali upaṭṭhāna; Skt. upasthāna) "mindfulness"
"Friends, whoever — monk or nun — declares the attainment of arahantship in my presence, they all do it by means of one or another of four paths. Which four? "There is the case where a monk has developed insight preceded by tranquility. [...] "Then there is the case where a monk has developed tranquillity preceded by insight. [...] "Then there is the case where a monk has developed tranquillity in tandem with insight. [...] "Then there is the case where a monk's mind has its restlessness concerning the Dhamma [Comm: the corruptions of insight] well under control."
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samatha - tranquillity, mindfulness of breathing
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vipassan%C4%81 - insight
- Vipassana - As taught by S.N. Goenka in the tradition of Sayagyi U Ba Khin
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dhy%C4%81na_in_Buddhism
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dhyana_in_Hinduism
- http://www.accesstoinsight.org/lib/authors/mahasi/progress.html
- http://www.accesstoinsight.org/lib/authors/nanamoli/PathofPurification2011.pdf
Daoist
Vivation
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vivation - form of meditation whose primary aim is the permanent and pleasurable resolution of suppressed negative emotions. The word "Vivation" comes from the Latin word vivé (to fully embrace life). Vivation integrates the core principles found in yoga, tantra, breathwork, and meditation into a unified process of healing and personal empowerment. Created by Jim Leonard in 1979, emphasis on maintaining awareness of the strongest feeling in the body on an ongoing basis.
Articles
- http://www.unreadyandwilling.com/2012/06/looking-back-my-first-year-as-a-meditation-practitioner/ [1]
- http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4319567
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transcendental_Meditation - a specific form of mantra meditation
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transcendental_Meditation_technique
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Transcendental_Meditation
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transcendental_Meditation_movement
Guided
- http://www.the-guided-meditation-site.com/write-a-guided-meditation.html
- http://odinkirk.hubpages.com/hub/How-To-Write-a-Killer-Guided-Meditation-Script
- http://www.swamij.com/online7min.htm
- http://www.fragrantheart.com/cms/free-audio-meditations
- Journey Into the Faerie Realm
Breath
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breathwork
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rebirthing-breathwork
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holotropic_Breathwork
Games
Performance
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Performance_(disambiguation)
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Performance_studies
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theatre_practitioner - someone who both creates theatrical performances and who produces a theoretical discourse that informs his or her practical work.
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commedia_dell'arte - form of theatre characterized by masked 'types'
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mask#Masks_in_theatre
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bertolt_Brecht#Theory_and_practice_of_theatre
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanislavski's_system
- http://www.theatreoftheoppressed.org/
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theatre_of_the_Oppressed
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Augusto_Boal - 'Games For Actors and Non-Actors', elements used by BFS groups
- http://new.gbgm-umc.org/media/pdf/thetheateroftheoppressedlaboratory.pdf
- http://organizingforpower.files.wordpress.com/2009/03/games-theater-of-oppressed.pdf
- http://www.reconnect.salvos.org.au/games.pdf
- http://www.thechangeagency.org/_dbase_upl/games&energisers.pdf
- http://old.religiouseducation.net/member/04_papers/Bower.pdf
- http://www.drama.ie/files/Drama-lessons-5-9.pdf
Dance
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dance_research
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_dance
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dance_theory
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dance_science
- https://www.emeraldinsight.com/journals.htm?articleid=1630474
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Labanotation
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benesh_Movement_Notation
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eshkol-Wachman_Movement_Notation
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DanceWriting
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Dance_styles
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_dance_style_categories
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ethnic,_regional,_and_folk_dances_sorted_by_origin
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Dance-related_lists
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sacred_dance
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ceremonial_dance
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dance_in_mythology_and_religion
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Partner_dance
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Connection_(dance)
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lead_and_follow
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frame_(dance)
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_position
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Closed_position
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Close_embrace
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Body_contact_(dance)
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_dance
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expressionist_dance
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tanztheater
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modern_dance
- Thought of You - by Ryan Woodward - animation
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hip-hop_dance
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Popping
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Locking_(dance)
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waving_(dance_move)
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liquid_and_digits
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacking - house music
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postmodern_dance
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dance_improvisation
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contact_improvisation
- http://dancelive.org.uk/ - scottish contemporary
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Physical_theatre
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Physically_integrated_dance
Butoh
Poi
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poi_(performance_art)#Modern_poi
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fire_dancing
- http://www.reddit.com/r/poi/ - see sidebar for related
Safety
- http://nafaa.pbworks.com/
- http://www.homeofpoi.co.uk/articles/FireSafety.php
- http://www.nhs.uk/Conditions/Burns-and-scalds/Pages/Treatment.aspx
Videos
- Beginner Poi Spinning Tutorial: Forward 3-Beat Weave
- Beginner Poi Spinning Tutorial: Backwards 3-Beat Weave
- Poi Transitions: Turning with the 3-Beat Weaves
- Poi Dancing Lesson: Behind-the-Back Weave
- Poi Tutorial: Advanced 2 Beat Weave (Intermediate)
- Poi Dancing Tutorial: 5-beat weaves and related theory (Intermediate)
- Poi Spinning Lesson: 4-Beat TTN and Butterfly Weaves (Advanced)
- Poi Dancing Lesson: How to do Crossers (Intermediate)
- Poi Dancing Tutorial: How to Learn Isolations (Intermediate)
- Poi Spinning Tutorial: How to Learn Hyperloops
Making
Buying
- http://www.oddballs.co.uk/ - recommended by jay
Staff
- http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL409266D4A2349998
- http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL72D799110F5E4379
- http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLA_LlfYcgtfJAnYvp8X7DJ-0zJ0y_dKzn