Tue, 6 October 2015
I give my take on the 7th Biotensegrity Interest Group, the 1st Biotensegrity Summit, and the 4th Fascia Research Congress all of which recently took place in Reston, Virginia.
Direct download: FINAL_LBP_EP48_BIG_and_FRC.mp3
Category:health: holistic fitness and movement, alternative medicine -- posted at: 5:00am EDT |
Tue, 8 September 2015
James Earls, author of Born to Walk, takes a very whole system approach to understanding walking.
Direct download: FINAL_LBP_EP47_James_Earls.mp3
Category:health: holistic fitness and movement, alternative medicine -- posted at: 5:00am EDT |
Tue, 18 August 2015
Dr. Dan Keown, who is both a Western medical doctor and a Chinese medicine doctor joins me for a conversation about his book The Spark in the Machine.
Direct download: FINAL_LBP_EP46_Dan_Keown.mp3
Category:health: holistic fitness and movement, alternative medicine -- posted at: 5:00am EDT |
Tue, 4 August 2015
Joanne Avison, author of Yoga, Fascia, Anatomy, and Movement, talks with me about fascia and why it has been overlooked historically (which includes a fascinating tour through the history of anatomy and its relationship to the Catholic church), how we form embryologically and what implications that has for biomechanics vs. biotensegrity (or biomechanics vs. biomotion), what that changes when we think about movement and the language we use about movement and the body,
Direct download: FINAL_LBP_EP45_Joanne_Avison.mp3
Category:health: holistic fitness and movement, alternative medicine -- posted at: 5:00am EDT |
Tue, 21 July 2015
Juliet Starrett talks about the non-profit she and her husband Kelly have founded, Stand Up Kids, which aims to spread movement rich classrooms throughout the nation. They've started with their children's public school in California, which this August aims to be the first chair-free school in the United States.
Direct download: FINAL_LBP_EP44_Juliet_Starrett.mp3
Category:health: holistic fitness and movement, alternative medicine -- posted at: 5:00am EDT |
Tue, 7 July 2015
I talk with Richard Brennan, originator of the School Chairs Campaign to make backward sloping chairs illegal, and Patricia Pyrka of Beyond Training about her week-long furniture-free experiment in her son's school.
Direct download: FINAL_LBP_EP43_Richard_Brennan_and_Patricia_Pyrka.mp3
Category:health: holistic fitness and movement, alternative medicine -- posted at: 5:00am EDT |
Tue, 23 June 2015
How have our "advances" physical disempowered infants and children?
Direct download: FINAL_LBP_EP42_Kathleen_Porter.mp3
Category:health: holistic fitness and movement, alternative medicine -- posted at: 5:00am EDT |
Tue, 9 June 2015
Frank Forencich and I talk about "the long body". A Native American term about how we are massively connected with the biological and social world around us.
Direct download: FINAL_LBP_EP41_Frank_Forencich.mp3
Category:health: holistic fitness and movement, alternative medicine -- posted at: 5:00am EDT |
Tue, 26 May 2015
What is pain? Neil Pearson helps to clarify the assumption that all pain is directly correlated to tissue damage, why your brain is messing with you by creating pain in the first place (if it’s not always telling the truth about what’s going on on the inside), and how you are likely to convince your brain that you need more oomph in order for it to be listened to.
Direct download: FINAL_LBP_EP40_Neil_Pearson.mp3
Category:health: holistic fitness and movement, alternative medicine -- posted at: 5:00am EDT |
Tue, 12 May 2015
Christopher McDougall is talking about his latest book, Natural Born Heroes. We talk about this remarkable story of a band of resistance fighters on Crete during World War II, how they contributed to toppling the Nazi occupation there, and the amazing local Cretans who taught them about their tradition of the hero.
Direct download: FINAL_LBP_EPS39_Christopher_McDougall.mp3
Category:health: holistic fitness and movement, alternative medicine -- posted at: 5:00am EDT |