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“If I can’t dance, I don’t want your revolution!” Emma Goldman

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The Liminal Body: Somatic Practices and Threshold Awareness

The liminal body emerges wherever the flesh ceases to function as a mere instrument of labour, display, or optimisation and instead reveals itself as a threshold, a site of passage between forces that cannot be fully stabilised or owned. In martial, meditative, and ecstatic practices the body is not treated as an object to be mastered nor as a resource to be exploited but as an intermediary field…

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The Ground and the Flow: Gravity as Spiritual Principle

The body, when engaged in disciplined practice, does not merely inhabit space; it articulates its own ontological relationship with the Earth. Grounding, in its most profound sense, transcends the biomechanical and enters the metaphysical: the act of rooting oneself is simultaneously an ethical, spiritual, and cosmological statement. In internal martial arts, particularly the nuanced practices of…

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The Triadic Structure as a Fractal Pedagogy

When we speak of the triadic nature of MMQG, we are not describing a juxtaposition of three independent modalities, nor a toolkit where practitioners may select according to mood or inclination. The triad of meditation, mindfulness, and Qi Gong is not an aggregate but a structural necessity, and this structure is fractal in the deepest sense. By fractal, we mean that the same pattern repeats…

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MMQG as Insurgent Pedagogy: Reclaiming Learning, Knowledge, and Transmission - part 1

The history of pedagogy, if stripped of its self-congratulatory myths and narratives of progress, is a history of domestication. From the Platonic Academy where knowledge was reserved for an elite, through the monastic schools where doctrine was enforced through rote memorisation, to the modern university system where knowledge is commodified and bureaucratised, the thread that binds these…

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Lifestyle self-management: Diet, exercise, sleep

Lifestyle self-management: Diet, exercise, sleep

E-CENT Blog Post

14th September 2018

Copyright (c) Jim Byrne, 2018

Dr Jim’s Blog: Mental health is not just about childhood experiences; Or about current stressors; or badly managed thoughts… Mental health is related to diet and nutrition, inner dialogue, physical exercise, re-framing of experience, and sleep science…

Introduction

In science as well as popular culture, the body and mind have…

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