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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Tue, 23 June 2015
How have our "advances" physical disempowered infants and children?
Direct download: FINAL_LBP_EP42_Kathleen_Porter.mp3
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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
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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
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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
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Tue, 5 May 2015
Today's conversation is with Ged Sumner about his book Body Intelligence Meditation.
Direct download: FINAL_LBP_EPS38_Ged_Sumner.mp3
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Tue, 21 April 2015
Where are we teaching critical sensing skills (instead of just critical thinking skills)?
Direct download: FINAL_LBP_EPS37_Jamie_McHugh.mp3
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Tue, 10 February 2015
Barbara Loomis talks about the surprising symptoms that can spring from uterine malpositioning- urinary incontinence, constipation, fertility issues, and even knee pain with ovulation. We also talk about the normal movement of the uterus, what we can do to keep it in as happy a position as possible, and some of the cultural things that contribute to a malpositioned uterus. Additionally we talk about the risks of hysterectomies, and the controversies that spring up around whether or not women should lift- if that affects uterine issues or contributes to problems in pregnancy. .
Direct download: FINAL_LBP_EPS36_Barbara_Loomis.mp3
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Tue, 3 February 2015
I am talking with Dr. Stephen Levin about what biotensegrity is, the many ways that we are not like skyscrapers, how the difference between the bicycle wheel and the wagon wheel can illustrate the concept of how we are “pre-stressed”, what viscoelasticity is, the shoulder as a sesamoid bone, some examples of the many tensegrity structures we can find in nature if we know what we’re looking for, what the ichosahedron has going for it and why we should care, and more!
Direct download: FINAL_LBP_EPS35_Stephen_Levin.mp3
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Tue, 27 January 2015
I talk to somatic pioneer Judith Aston about the Aston Kinetics paradigm and how it integrates seamlessly with other paradigms like yoga, Pilates, and personal training, how seeing the body is taught in those disciplines and what seeing the body even means, our bodies not just as self-contained units but also about their interactions with the physical world, thoughts on the impact of product design on our bodies, what the early days of co-creating with Dr. Rolf and other pioneers was like, and the meaning behind her quote, “sometimes we just need help interpreting ourselves.”
Direct download: FINAL_LBP_EPS34_Judith_Aston.mp3
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Tue, 20 January 2015
Dr. Eyal Lederman talks about his paper, The Myth of Core Stability. We get into the assumptions that were pulled out of the research which have lead to the core stability model, how dividing muscles into “core” and “global” groups is a reductionist fantasy, why the focus on the transversus abdominus is faulty, and the problems training for core stability can create.
Direct download: FINAL_LBP_EPS33_Eyal_Lederman.mp3
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Tue, 13 January 2015
Dr. Steve Gangemi, aka The Sock Doc, is a chiropractic physician and MovNat certified trainer who is merging functional neurology and nutritional biochemistry into mainstream natural healthcare. We talk about foot health as a gauge of a person’s overall health, the recent Vibrams 5 Fingers lawsuit, orthotics, the dangers of stretching, why you want to move your ass often but not quickly, long term effects of doing only high intensity workouts, and much more.
Direct download: FINAL_LBP_EPS32_Steve_Gangemi.mp3
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Tue, 6 January 2015
Gil Hedley is an ethicist and anatomist who runs unique human dissection labsthat are much more about discovering the reality of our connectedness than about finding the separations between things. We talk about how our model of the body determines our relationship with it, the superficial fascia and what’s up with everyone ignoring it?, different tissue layers as different antennea of the body, insights into the famous “fuzz speech” and more.
Direct download: FINAL_LBP_EPS31_Gil_Hedley.mp3
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