Movement Practice to Strengthen Your Mind-Body Connection | Ido Portal

“Awareness through movement. In that sense, the same thing that I'm practicing. I've learned a lot from him. Not personally, of course. He died when I was four years old. But in the sense of, don't tell me how I'm built. Let me build myself.”

“So as a daily practice with movement, I mean, you've talked over the years and we talked last time, and there's this great video of you online. I love the one where you put on a backpack and you move through a crowded city, trying not to die. Yeah. Make contact with anybody as a way to just move your body differently. And some people might look at that and say, okay, well, okay, he could do that.”

“must be differentiated from the physiological speed and power. I remember the first time I read the book of Leonid Arkaev, Professor Arkaev, the legendary Soviet gymnastics trainer. And in his book, he mentions the vertical jumps of the Olympic Soviet male team.”

“unbearable, and read the short story while being in there. In the worst times, all my life I used this. And the physical discomfort, it's short stories. You can do it.”

“I create the boundary inside my simulation. This is the most, as George Spencer Brown talks about this in Laws of Form, this is the act of differentiation. This creates the most basic thought matter.”

“I'm using everything. For me, it's all the same. Tasks with tennis balls, with a stick, I'll use anything because my intention is not to get the success in the specifics, is to get the transformation much deeper.”

“usually. The people who are saying, listen to your body? Yes. I think that whole verbiage comes from this notion and the quite pioneering, although I would say somewhat out of date book, The Body Keeps the Score, I think it was an important book.”

“skateboarders they use trampoline a lot and those in the know they're not supposed to know that they're They know because this is one of the most basic tools and different pits, landing pits made of foam pieces where you can fly with your bike or your skateboard off of a ramp and you don't need to land and you get to develop this sensation in the air.”

“There are a few versions of it. It's a pretty common one. You touch your nose and somebody stimulates with a vibration gun, the tendon, and your nose become longer. You feel as if your nose become longer. Or there is this version. You know this one? Put your finger against mine.”