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“I have just three things to teach: simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures. Simple in actions and in thoughts, you return to the source of being. Patient with both friends and enemies, you accord with the way things are. Compassionate toward yourself, you reconcile all beings in the world.”

Lao Tzu

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About

Hi,

I made this personal blog for the reason that all people blog: to document, show, express something personal. Also to teach, to get educated and learn about various things. And, ofcourse, to connect with people.

In this blog there are certain themes that are coming back:

Capoeira - my first love, my background and biggest source of education in my life. I started when I was 9 years old. Recently it has sparked my interests in ‘movement’.

Movement - I am new to this greater perspective of movement and following teachings of Ido Portal, Gymnasticbodies, yoga and more to get a better understanding about it.

Philosophy - my attempt to make sense out of life, to question the meaning of life via different perspectives: i.e. spiritual, physical or sober thinking

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Experience

2017 (and older)

over 13 years of capoeira practice: many workshops and classes from great teachers in London, Amsterdam, Dusseldorf, Hamdburg, Bochum, Rouen

workshop Mestre Moraes 'atitude e consciência', Capoeira Angola, Hamburg

several beginner yoga workshops

2018

workshop Animal Locomotion, The Conscious Club, Amsterdam

workshop Weightlifting - form and mobility in the squat, SSCE Eindhoven

Future

workshop Spine Mobility - Neck, Upper back and Lower back, MBA Utrecht

workshop Upper Body Mobility - Shoulders, Elbows and Wrists, MBA Utrecht

19 week ballet course, Eindhoven

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“Wisdom without love is like having lungs but no air to breathe. Do not seek wisdom in order to acquire knowledge but in order to live and love more fully.”

— Adyashanti

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A poem: ‘Capoeira through my eyes’

capoeira through my eyes

a phenomenon that takes place when two human beings start to interact  while being guided by ancestral music and energy

many things can happen now it is a game of many fields

a jogo

sometimes humorous like a two man cabaret, everything can be expressed  its all done while smiling and flowing

sometimes as serious and profound as the old traditions and rituals being executed

cantadores preacing their hearts out in ladainhas remembering us of good and bad times, moral lessons and wisdom

sometimes intimate when human bodies are sensing and interconnecting

moving elegantly like a choreographed dance although completely improvised

sometimes tensed, intimidative games much like wild cats solving problems on the street

unpredictable like a real fight, yet guided like therapy thus with more respect and less damage

a rythmic exchange in psychological and fysical gestures and broken when a chamada is proposed

mantra like corridos that can be sung for hours conditioned hearts start beating faster

because of the primitive sounds coming from the berimbaus a profound fullfilling practise with many witnesses

and it is never ending

viva a capoeira

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Shaping my thoughts into designs

I have had so much ideas and thoughts about different aspects lately. I always wrote them down for later to do something with. Now is the time to clearify those concepts and shape them into designs.  It feels good to be working on this. I am working out things that I’d like to share with other people, how to communicate my ideas and specifying them into frameworks or roadmaps. 

As I never share too much details about the content I will just highlight two of the concepts that I am working on:

Focussing on the contrary: when you’re trying to understand, create or learn something

A chronological order of appreciation model: the self, its body, other bodies; other persons, other living things (build up from relatable to less relatable organisms), ecological systems; the earth

The Art of Observation

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A thought: ‘Experiences’ as the only truth

Universal truths do not really exsist. Things can be accepted as such but there is never a universal truth. Each of us has his own unique set of beliefs and truths. But what is truth to a human individual? How do we form our truths?  I think truths are like water, they can transform and evaporate. They can fall on us like raindrops and soak us when it rains. 

The intensity and duration of holding a truth is actually influenced by one thing: experience. Especially the disposal of a truth is most likely to happen when you experience something that opposes your current truths. This is beautiful, because it means that truths are, in a way, equal to the experiences you’ve had in your life. Therefore it can only be influenced by experiences. 

A truth is based on an experience Experiences create the our truths Experiences are never the same We experience different things, in different ways, and in different times Therefore truths are never the same We do need agreements in order to live in peace with one another. What are ways to establish those agreements? Can we respect our truths when forming agreements? Just wondering.  

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Fear as a healthy source of energy - Avi Grinberg

‘Fear, the power that keeps me alive’ - Avi Grinberg A talk that shows how our view on fear disconnects us with it. And that is just what makes fear destructive, the denial and the not-dealing with fear. It becomes old fear; ‘locked’ inside our bodies and psyche.  Avi Grinberg is a very good speaker and explains more about fear. This video is a must watch for everyone that is afraid of something; thus for everyone. 

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Reaching goals as very meaningless, empty moments

Reaching goals can feel very empty shortly afterwards. This particular moment is called succes. Because you define succes as to have achieved something (salary, fame, a new trick, a new partner) and it makes you stop the journey. Besides feeling proud, satisfied, etc., it is emptying in the sense that it doesn’t allow you to continue the beautiful journey towards that delimited goal. Luckily goals don’t have to be delimited and can flow into other goals and therefore the journey is never ending. As life is only about the journey.

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Inspiring Social Designs

Lately I read the book ‘Looks Good, Feels Good, Is Good’ and it has given me significant inspiration! It shows creative ways of dealing with topics, such as wellbeing, waste and energy by using social design. 

The eye-opening insights that I received from docu’s such as Down to Earth and Floortje Aan ‘t Eind Van De Wereld motivated me to change. Change can be very refreshing. But I needed inspiration to deal with this change. To change my focus points.

This book has sparked some ideas within me that I am definately going to work-out and take with me on my journey. It has shown me that a creative design can be so simple yet so powerful and good for our world. We need to design new things from an earthly need. We have enough aestethically appealing furniture, clothing.. stuff. It’s time to move focus on things that matter. What those things are is what I am trying to figure out, slowly. In the future I will post about ideas that I have with or inspiration that might inspire you too.

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The usage of the bicep [evolutional-perspective]

Our biceps, what are they meant for? At the start of the evolution of us humans we would hunt down animals and then bring them back home. Our biceps were used mainly for carrying (i.e. a prey for a) long distance, therefore, it is only logical that a bicep will blossom in high volume work. (Sommer, Secrets of Gymnastic Strength podcast) 

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A day of studying theory with coach Sommer

This three-hour podcast covers a lot of aspects of general knowledge of shaping strength and mobility on our human bodies. A true goldmine! Still busy writing notes and thinking about all the concepts and how I want to bring them into my practise. I’m young, but man I have a lot to discover.

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Some findings in Buddhism

In the last few months I have slowly developed a keen interest in Buddhism. As I was suffering from the ending of my first romantic-relationship, I became very curious about the pain and suffering and where it came from. It wasn’t my girlfriend who caused it, it wasn’t the unfair world, it wasn’t the devil and the pain, it came from somewhere within me, I realised. 

Soon, after I started reading books of the Dalai Lama, articles about Buddhism and such, I could feel that it had to do with something called ‘the ego’. I’d like to describe my ego as something that is within myself, a voice with its own needs. And only needs, and desires, no love.  My first reaction was to fight against this ‘ego’, to eliminate it in order to eliminate suffering from the break-up. But it was there for a reason I figured, and fighting it actually would mean my ego trying to eliminate itself. It is like trying to beat fire with fire. I needed to approach it with something else, something called ‘love’, which is not the same as the sense in which most people around me use the word. Actually what I was, and still am, trying to figure out is a hard to grasp thing called ‘selfless-love’. 

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Extremes of the human body [Ted Lawson]

Very touched by the work of Ted Lawson, in particular his artwork called ‘Eve’, a direct reference to the first woman in Paradise and on Earth. According to the NYC arts magazine he wanted to show the feminine lifespan from a anorexic teenage girl to an old fat lady. I see something different. 

What I see what I see here are extreme human bodily forms that nowadays aren’t a rarity anymore. We all know. I am touched by this because I love my body more than anything. Not in its perfection but also in its flaws. I think the fact that we have a body is reason enough to take care of it. It is the one fysical thing that exists closest to our soul. Therefore one of my passions is creating appreciation for the human body, within myself and others.  Questions The first question that always comes to my mind is: where(?) do the extremes come from? And I don’t mean the obvious facts for getting fat, thin or the obese and anorexic diagnoses. I am intrerested in the source(?) of it all, the bigger picture. The roots of extremes. I think it has to do a lot with imbalance(?), harmful priorities that are spoonfed by the ignorant and untaught. And even though this is a vage description(?) of ‘the problem’, it is something that interests me and I will continue to learn about it. I am open for discussions and conversations. 

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Mastering the commonplace (update)

I am now slowly getting to the end of this book. The chapter I started this morning is called ‘ Tools for Mastery’ and summarizes all tools given throughout the book. I will post the most important tools (IMO) soon.

Mastering the commonplace The commonplace is often taken for granted, but the path of mastery can be walked here too. For example, a relationship is something where many things just are the way they are. They go the way they go and only if there is a perceived conflict or problem, it might get some special attention (or not). But even in the commonplace of your relationship you can still keep on improving, and practising ‘love’. 

Something I want to remember is that in life there is no difference between the commonplace and ‘actual practise’. These are one and your daily practise will affect all other practises on other paths.