outgrowmovement

I’ve always been interested in movements that make you pay attention. Not because they look impressive, but because they reveal how much intelligence there is in the body that we normally don’t have to think about. A headstand is a good example. When you start spending a few minutes every day upside down, you quickly discover that staying there is much more complicated than it looks. Your hands, shoulders, spine, hips, eyes, breath and balance all have to coordinate at the same time. At...

Your body is always adapting. This summer, choose what it adapts to. Most people think summer changes them. But often, only the scenery changes. We trade offices for airports. Commutes for road trips. Meetings for beach towels. Yet many of the signals we give our body stay exactly the same. We rush. We consume. We slouch. We fill every quiet moment and so we stay busy but just in different places. And our body keeps adapting to the same familiar patterns. HOWEVER... There's another option....

If you're like most people you believe that exhaustion comes only from doing too much. Too much work, too much stress, too many responsibilities, too much pressure. So you try to solve the problem by sleeping more, taking more supplements, drinking more caffeine, optimizing productivity, or pushing yourself harder with crushing workouts in the hope that eventually your energy will return. While it is true that some of these strategies might be beneficial, it's certainly not the entire story....