Here are three essays I wrote on the philosophy of movement practices.

My views have changed a lot in the past year, and I’m not sure if I’ll even keep using the term “movement practice” to describe what I do. There are too many assumptions and expectations when someone talks about movement, and I want to distance myself from things like fitness and somatic therapies.

But these three essays taken together show my first, rough, groping attempt at thinking about movement practices in a new way.

Cheers,

Kevin

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Never Stop Sculpting Your Own Statue

Never stop sculpting your own statue. Plotinus 1. The technique I teach for consciously controlling your posture is more Apollonian than Dionysian – to borrow Nietzsche’s concepts from The Birth of Tragedy. I give you diagrams, photos, models and sculptures - and you make videos of yourself doing movements to make yourself look more like the model than wh…

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a year ago · 10 likes · Kevin D Mackay

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A Movement Practice for Westerners?

The problem A central problem in the Western philosophical tradition – whether it is known or unknown – is the lack of a movement based mind-body practice. The West has no movement practice similar to yoga, Tai Chi, walking meditations, and the sacred dances etc. we find in other cultures and traditions…

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a year ago · 6 likes · 1 comment · Kevin D Mackay

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The Problem with Movement Practices

Note: This is a rough, first attempt at thinking through this problem. But I wanted to get something published online now to start a conversation. Let me know what you think here or on Twitter…

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a year ago · 2 likes · 2 comments · Kevin D Mackay