Episodes
Saturday Dec 17, 2016
LEAP 2 With Edward Yu: The Mass Psychology of Fittism
Saturday Dec 17, 2016
Saturday Dec 17, 2016
Dear listeners,
I hope your year is coming to a meaningful close in spite of the craziness that often accompanies the holiday seasons and new year. Before you make those “New Year’s Resolutions” to get in shape in 2017, you may want to listen to this interview with Edward Yu.
In this podcast, I interview Edward Yu, author of “The Art of Slowing Down” and “The Mass Psychology of Fititsm.” We talk about the latter, his latest book, which delves into how many of our ideas about post modern fitness are based on: the first and second laws of thermodynamics, are inhuman or even inhumane, and very, very outdated. We also talk about how fitness can be life enhancing if it includes learning and growth rather than just counting repetitions, weight or distance.
What might you do differently than going to one of those gyms that has rows of shiny machines, innumerable treadmills and TV screens above each one? Listen and find out. And by the way, did you know that the treadmill was originally used as a means of punishing prisoners in England? We talk about that as well.
I hope you enjoy our conversation and share this with your friends on social media or wherever you hangout in the virtual world.
We talk about how modern fitness:
- is based on the steam engine and 1st law of thermal dynamics.
- can dumb down our sensory motor intelligence
- is reductionistic
- is de-humanizing
- is divorced from the word fitness
- is corporate based
- is a form of meritocracy
In the podcast, Edward mentions the book, "Awareness Through Movement" by Dr. Moshe Feldenkrais.
You can find out more about Edward at
And find his books from AchievingExcellence.com:
The Mass Psychology of Fittism
All the best for the coming New Year,
John
Saturday Nov 12, 2016
L.E.A.P. with Richard Goldsand
Saturday Nov 12, 2016
Saturday Nov 12, 2016
Learn, Explore, Awaken, & Play
Welcome to the very first LEAP podcast where I talk with teachers, coaches, artists and authors about Leaning, Exploring, Awakening and Playing, and how we can improve our health and well-being as well as advance the evolution of humanity for ourselves and our children.
Shownotes for L.E.A.P. Podcast #1
In this interview, I talk with Feldenkrais Method Practitioner Richard Goldsand about his work with high level athletes, dancers and more recently, embodied leadership. Rich shares some good stories about how he put his reputation on the line to gain credibility with athletes and how he works with them. Later in our conversation, he describes how he works with the students in the “Transformational Leadership and Embodied Activism” course at Arizona State University with Mary Margaret Fonow.
Richard Goldsand is a Guild-Certified Feldenkrais practitioner with 25 years of experience. He is a faculty associate in the ASU Department of Dance where he teaches the Feldenkrais method and in the School of Social Transformation where he co-teaches a course on Transformational Leadership and Embodied Activism with Mary Margaret Fonow.
Rich’s private practice has include has included extensive work with Arizona State Baseball, Arizona State Women’s Basketball, and United States Diving. Rich’s clients range from infants to senior citizens to elite athletes. At various times, he has worked with major league baseball players Glenallen Hill, Rick Wilkins, and Barry Bonds, LPGA professionals Beth Daniel, Shelley Hamlin, Janet Anderson and Alice Ritzman, and 1996 U.S. Olympic Diving champion Melisa Moses . Rich has been a member of the Faculty of Arizona State University since 2000.
Links for Richard: