#movement work

[lucybellwood]

Sketch notes from an info call about For The People’s cohort program for people interested in running for their local library board!

[dreaminginthedeepsouth]

The Rules of NMR

Recently a new student asked me “What are the Rules of NMR?”

I was flustered for a moment then my innovator/rebel answered, “There are no rules.” Since I did not follow a path in my studies that adopted someone else’s way of viewing the body, I’ve been able to innovate based on what the body tells me and I am seeing a HUGE IMPORTANCE for PRIORITIES in how we approach a problem to get the fastest possible results.

So yes, there are rules: the body’s rules = NMR’s Rules.

Here they are:

Correct the Sympathetic/Parasympathetic balance first. (Even that has Priorities)

1. Integration between R/L hemispheres of the Cortex. The fastest track to this starts with Brain Buttons http://www.neuromuscular-reprogramming.com/.../brain.../.

2. Space Buttons or CranioSacral Rebalancing or Polarity or Restorative Breathing can help the NS to deeply relax. The body’s ability to restore itself is optimized when we deeply relax. Hence periods of rest/relax are also good intertwined with your structural bodywork. Structural work is challenging to the NS, as we are pushing for change in a system that is committed to homeostasis. When there has been an accident or injury, this is paramount.

Reduce Torsions/Rotations in the Torso next:

Organize the base of the spine for reciprocal rotation in the waist/core pivot at T12/L1

Follow that with the Low Back and Hips Protocols for safely reprogramming the coordination sequencing of the hips and low back/core. (Detail of this to be found in the NMR Mod 1 Intro manual.)

Organize the Hips to Shoulders relationships before working on the shoulders and neck. This includes reducing torsions and insufficiencies in the diaphragm. Other than some general fact finding and massage warm up for the neck, changes will not be possible until the coordination issues in the torso are reduced. (Details on this can be found in the NMR Mod 2 manual)

Moving out from this basic level of organization one can begin to follow the client’s priorities.

The Thoraco/Cervical junction needs to be functional in order to change pain and dysfunction in the shoulders and neck.

Shoulders should be functionally rebalanced before working on elbow and wrist problems.

Hips should be functionally rebalanced on the way to working on knees and ankles and feet.

The Neck has its own priorities….Because of the complexity of neck issues the intricacies of reprogramming the neck in details are not explored until Mod 3 of the basic 72 hr, training and again in the NMR Advanced 30 hr in great detail.

Once big muscle support is available and relationships are functional one can start undoing the deep layers of detail in the soft tissue matrix of the body and even in the skeleton itself. The Reprogramming of the Spine is explored in Adv NMR also.

Contraindications:

Spot work. Too much in depth work in one area without a larger integration plan can be dangerous and leave clients in pain.

Releasing deep tension without an understanding of what it’s bracing for and strategy for providing the stability that requires it to be tight.

Digging to release spinal fixations. The spine responds best to support and movement instruction in the direction of its normal curvature and function.

(Neuromuscular Reprogramming)

[riotbrowngrrrl]

Organizing is painful, grueling work.

[navigatethestream]

It would be easy for me to write the same article that disabled folks have written to the abled since time immemorial -- one asking you to get it the fuck together and stop "forgetting" about access and disabled demands. It would be easy to write because it's still so needed: Nondisabled activists continue to "forget" about basic access until someone disabled bugs them about it. Or they remember for a few months following a workshop, and then the commitment fades. This forgetting breaks my heart every time, and it also frustrates the hell out me. If movements got it together about ableism, there is so much we could win. We could win movement spaces where elders, parents and sick and disabled folks could be present -- vastly increasing the number of people who can be included in "the revolution." We could create movement spaces where people don't "age out" of being able to be involved after turning 40 or feel ashamed of admitting any disability, mental health or chronic illness. We could create visions of revolutionary futures that don't replicate eugenics -- where disabled people exist and are thriving. We could win a unified analysis bringing together prison abolitionist and anti-institutionalization organizing, recognizing that at least 50 percent of Black and Brown people murdered by police are also disabled, Deaf or autistic/Mad. (This is not new analysis on my part -- Black disabled organizations like Krip Hop Nation and The Harriet Tubman Collective have been organizing for years around these issues.) So, I will say it one time: I want abled people to get it together in 2018. Stop forgetting about disability. Face your own terror of being disabled, sick or mad. Unpack the stories of disabled people in your families and communities. Listen to those people. Read some of the many brilliant, made-by-disabled people access guides out there. Normalize access and disability. Be resourceful, like this article that has a million hacks to make bathroom access happen. Ask how you're fighting ableism in every campaign you do. Don't forget about us. Realize you are or will be us.

To Survive the Trumpocalypse, We Need Wild Disability Justice Dreams by Leah Piepzna-Samarasinha

[un-sink]

Some notes on being ‘red’

(This personal statement was posted on my personal Facebook account on April 4, 2019 at 11:12pm. What is in Facebook is also what is found here.)

I'll be honest, I didn't want to have to make this post. But I realized that this is my last semester as a student and, after I graduate, I'll be focused on a different sector anyway. Before I begin, I'd like to say I don't hope to answer all the questions regarding the issue with this personal statement alone. It's likely that whatever questions you have have already been answered by the Tug-ani statement, which can be found here. This personal statement has felt necessary after the Union of Progressive Students (UPS) publicly questioned the integrity of Tug-ani, the student publication that I am an editor of. I am name-dropped in their statement and, while I am not privy to their private conversations, I can only assume I am name-dropped there as well, even those conversations instigated by their Carolinian friends. You can check out both our statements if you'd like. However, I'd like to raise this discussion beyond the issue at hand since I feel that this is the underlying concern here. It's no secret that Tug-ani, along with several other student publications throughout the UP system, has always been tagged as "red-leaning." One of the worst things that have been said about Tug-ani in particular is that we are the "mouthpiece of Nagkahiusang Kusog sa Estudyante (NKE)." I have been a member of Tug-ani since 2015, since my first semester as a UP student. At this time, I was still a centrist. I still believed in shit like "Violence will not solve violence." and other related sentiments. I would run away from walkouts, not realizing the importance of such demonstrations. But joining the student publication pushed me out of my comfort zones. The first press conference I covered was about the Kidapawan massacre. Carrying that much knowledge and anger for the perpetrators of the massacre is a weight I carry to this day. The first protest I covered was against the vetoing of the SSS Pension Hike. And since then, I only went up—I covered more protests, more press conferences, more people's issues.

The longer you cover people's issues, the more you understand the need to struggle. The need to fight. The need to take up a stance that seeks peace based on justice. And for this analysis of issues, they have called us "red." But what does it mean to be "red"? Is it calling to junk STS instead of reforming it because any form of tuition collection is still a manifestation of the lack of free education? Is it going to the communities, learning about the lives of the basic masses? Is it integrating with farmers, living with them for a day, and learning how they do their daily work? Is it going to demolished communities and reporting about their current state because no mainstream media outlet would give the marginalized airtime? Is it organizing educational discussions about sociopolitical issues and organizing protests to show great dissent? Is it covering protests outside of school, knowing it is one of the only ways we can get in touch with what the masses are calling for? Is it calling for an end to contractualization that continually puts the lives of workers at risks? Is it joining in workers' strikes not only for documentation but also for support, because you know that the workers need warm bodies in a time of strike? What does it really mean to be "red"? Because this is the work that we do in Tug-ani: as alternative media, we chronicle the story of the students and the people. Not only that, by raising the discourse, we join the struggle. As a publication built by the students and for the students, the only bias we can have is towards them, towards their calls and concerns about the basic masses, towards the threads of life that move them. And as an organizer, this is the work that I do. ANYONE, even those who have questioned my integrity as a student journalist, can attest to the fact that I have been active all-year round. I have invited all of you to the integrations, gatherings, EDs, and protests that I am invited to. Sometimes, I am not given a response. Sometimes, not even a "seen" and yet I continue to drop messages in your inboxes, post invites in our groups, hoping that one day, through ceaseless and tireless persuasion, you'll join the struggle because I know that, in the final analysis, you are not a class enemy and I have no business isolating you. But if this is what it means to be "red", if being one with the struggle of the masses is what it means to be "red", if finding myself among the workers, peasants, drivers, the urban poor is what it means to be "red", then what does that make you? How and where do you stand? What do you stand for? When you have an answer, come find me. All 4 years in this, I have found myself among the people, have tried to bring their stories to the students of UP Cebu and to everyone that our Facebook page may reach. Even you, those who question my integrity, would attest to this. You know where I've been. You know what I've done. And you'll know where I'm going. Come find me among the workers, peasants, and the basic masses—when you're ready. "Doon sa mundo ng mga gutom - doon tayo mag-diskusyon."

LINK: On Medium

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Black Joy is movement work

Black Joy is movement work

by Gloria Oladipo Black joy is revolutionary. Full stop. Oftentimes, white people misinterpret Black liberation movements as movements only about pain, movements only about anger, only about violence and death. And, of course, they involve those things. But joy is foundational. Joy is fundamental. Joy is what we’re fighting for. Joy is what we’re fighting with.   For me, Black joy is an…

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Supremacy is our ongoing pandemic

"we are afraid of being hurt, afraid because we have been hurt, afraid because we have caused hurt, afraid because we live in a world that wants to hurt us whether we have hurt others or not, just based on who we are, on any otherness from some long-ago determined norm. supremacy is our ongoing pandemic. it partners with every other sickness to tear us from life, or from lives worth living."

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