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24.01.2022 There’s a spectrum of relationships with time we look at birds and think they’re very ‘other’, but when you slow their song down, you get an idea of the tapestry of what they’re saying and they sound strangely human. These are very subtle, integrated phrases that we miss when they’re singing at their normal speed. Once you can identify them as species or individuals, it just turns into this completely insane conversation across huge amounts of time and space. You have these themes essentially rippling through the woods. Everything that happens in a woodland is like a stone dropping into a pond. It sends out these ripples as those birds respond and then respond to those responses there are so many layers and levels to it." - Cosmo Sheldrake

23.01.2022 We feel surprise when travellers tell us of the vast dimensions of the Pyramids and other great ruins, but how utterly insignificant are the greatest of these, when compared to these mountains of stone accumulated by the agency of various minute and tender animals!

23.01.2022 "About 240 million years ago, massive oceanic reptiles called nothosaurs dominated the seas. They looked like the mutant offspring of a trihybrid cross between the Loch Ness monster, an alligator and a T. rex. The beasts had long tails to slither underwater, jaws packed with razor-sharp teeth and flipper-like limbs to propel themselves through the water."

23.01.2022 I am endlessly fascinated by the history of Doggerland and old Europe. Maybe (not likely) one day there'll be a surge of interest and funding for underwater archaeology around the world and we can gain a far better understanding of the cultures of the last 10000 years.

21.01.2022 "According to Damasio’s somatic marker hypothesis, emotions are generated by conveying the current state of the body to the brain through interoceptive and proprioceptive afferent input. The resulting brain activation patterns represent unconscious emotions and correlate with subjective feelings. This proposition implies a corollary that the deliberate control of motor behavior could regulate feelings. We tested this possibility, hypothesizing that engaging in movements assoc...iated with a certain emotion would enhance that emotion and/or the corresponding valence. Furthermore, because motor imagery and observation are thought to activate the same mirror-neuron network engaged during motor execution, they might also activate the same emotional processing circuits, leading to similar emotional effects. Therefore, we measured the effects of motor execution, motor imagery and observation of whole-body dynamic expressions of emotions (happiness, sadness, fear) on affective state. All three tasks enhanced the corresponding affective state, indicating their potential to regulate emotions." https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4067484/

20.01.2022 Jiraiya and Orochimaru

20.01.2022 Ancestral Movement Zoom classes are going strong, every Sunday (Australia,, Sydney time), here's the signup page for the December sessions: https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/ancestral-movement-zoom-cla For those who missed it, I've finally started running some online training in the form of a weekly zoom class (live on Sunday mornings 8:30-10am AEDT, but recorded and accessible afterwards), as a lead up for some more in-depth courses we're releasing early next year. These are... informal drop-in sessions, working through some of the "evolutionary anatomy" and corresponding "soft body" or "animal body" movement practices which I've been exploring for a couple of decades now. The classes are open to everyone, with a range of concessions available for anyone who needs them. The focus is on restoring trust and confidence in the body, gaining smooth sensitive mobility strength and pleasure through the deepest hidden areas of tension (in particular the pelvis, abdomen, ribcage and spine), breaking out of the modern urbanised human view of "correct alignment" and into the far more complex multidimensional and non-linear movements and shapes our bodies are capable of and which we see everywhere in the rest of the living world, and gradually developing a deepening sense of the evolutionary history of the body, our shared ancestry with all other living creatures, and ourselves as being as ancient as the earth itself and fully at home here with the rest of our family. Each week we're also getting into some of the fundamental methods of mind-body work generally, including the essential neuroscience and anatomy of yoga, meditation, qigong and what not from various traditions. Come and join if any of that sounds interesting

20.01.2022 Latest episode from my favourite podcast: "Colonial anthropologists in the 19th century coined the term 'animism' to explain the worldview they found literally everywhere, and then categorized it as a primitive 'mistake.' Yet for 98% of human history, 99.9% of our ancestors lived, breathed, and interacted with a world that they saw and felt to be animate a world imbued with lifeforce and inhabited by and permeated with forces, with which we exist in ongoing relation. This a...nimate vision was the water in which we swam, it was consciousness in its natural dwelling place, the normative way of seeing the world and our place in it. It wasn’t a theory, a philosophy, or an idea. It wasn’t, actually, an 'ism'. It was the felt experience of how things were. Which is why it has been commonly understood across the entire world for all of time, so inherent that in most cultures there wasn't even a word for it. In this episode we look at the ubiquity of the animate vision, and explore what this vision says about the nature of consciousness and the world we live in." See more

19.01.2022 "One of the world’s largest collections of prehistoric rock art has been discovered in the Amazonian rainforest. Hailed as the Sistine Chapel of the ancients, archaeologists have found tens of thousands of paintings of animals and humans created up to 12,500 years ago across cliff faces that stretch across nearly eight miles in Colombia. Their date is based partly on their depictions of now-extinct ice age animals, such as the mastodon, a prehistoric relative of the elephan...t that hasn’t roamed South America for at least 12,000 years. There are also images of the palaeolama, an extinct camelid, as well as giant sloths and ice age horses. These animals were all seen and painted by some of the very first humans ever to reach the Amazon. Their pictures give a glimpse into a lost, ancient civilisation. Such is the sheer scale of paintings that they will take generations to study."

18.01.2022 Ancestral Movement Zoom class is happening tomorrow morning (Sunday 830-10am AEDT Sydney time). This will be our last one for the year, we'll break for a few weeks (I'm on the road with Janet and bub visiting family) and then get back into it in January. We'll keep working on the "soft body - animal body" concepts, spinal waves, abdominal waves, ribcage waves, three dimensional fluidity and soft strength through all of the joints, linking force through the joints to create re...laxed elastic whole body connection, uncovering and exploring the inner fish, the dragon body, the lizard body, monkey body, the inner worm, the octopus archetype. As always linking in the practice of "perceptual shifts" which help us switch on or dial up our acknowledgement and appreciation for the living world, for the body as a landscape or ecosystem, for the experience of deep time in the present moment, to see infinitely beautiful and complex ecological cycles teeming with living beings everywhere we put our attention. Maybe we'll even talk neuroplasticity and mind-body interactions with all physiological systems, how to access these states and their implications for health, meditation and what have you. Tickets are available on a sliding scale with a range of discounted rates for anyone who needs them. https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/ancestral-movement-zoom-cla A bunch of people have been messaging me asking for access to previously recorded sessions, yes these are available just send me a private message or email and we can sort it out - it might take me a few days to respond because we're on the road!

18.01.2022 White blood cells (macrophages, yellow) attacking the larva (microfilaria, white) of the parasitic nematode worm Wuchereria bancrofti. This worm is passed from... human to human via mosquito bites. It lodges in and blocks the lymph nodes that drain to the lower extremities causing elephantiasis, the massive enlargement and deformity of the legs and genitalia. Macrophages attack many types of disease-causing organisms and clean up cellular debris. Magnification: x1470 when printed 10 centimetres wide. Credit: Eye Of Science / Science Photo Library http://bit.ly/2FCyXWJ #elephantiasis #immunology #medicine #parasite #physiology #science

15.01.2022 Scientists from Dublin and Belfast have looked deep into Ireland’s early history to discover a still-familiar pattern of migration: of stone age settlers with origins in the Fertile Crescent, and bronze age economic migrants who began a journey somewhere in eastern Europe.

15.01.2022 Paranthropus robustus walked the Earth at roughly the same time as our direct ancestor Homo erectus, palaeoanthropologist Angeline Leece said, referring to hominins, a small-brained member of the human family tree. "But these two vastly different species Homo erectus with their relatively large brains and small teeth, and Paranthropus robustus with their relatively large teeth and small brains represent divergent evolutionary experiments,"

15.01.2022 About 800 years ago, long before dating apps existed, Polynesians from the South Pacific and Native Americans from what is now Colombia hooked up, creating a genetic signature that still exists in some Polynesians today, a new genetic study finds.

12.01.2022 Via Ben Roth at the DOP - Doors of Perception page

11.01.2022 ANCESTRAL MOVEMENT ZOOM CLASSES (link in the comments) For those who missed it, I've finally started running some online training in the form of a weekly zoom class (Sunday mornings 8:30-10am AEDT, but recorded and accessible afterwards), as a lead up for some more in-depth courses we're releasing early next year. These zoom classes are informal sessions, working through some of the "evolutionary anatomy" and corresponding "soft body" or "animal body" movement practices which... I've been exploring for a couple of decades now. The classes are open to everyone, with a range of concessions available for anyone who needs them. The focus is on restoring trust and confidence in the body, gaining smooth sensitive mobility strength and pleasure through the deepest hidden areas of tension (in particular the pelvis, abdomen, ribcage and spine), breaking out of the modern urbanised human view of "correct alignment" and into the far more complex multidimensional and non-linear movements and shapes our bodies are capable of and which we see everywhere in the rest of the living world, and gradually developing a deepening sense of the evolutionary history of the body, our shared ancestry with all other living creatures, and ourselves as being as ancient as the earth itself and truly at home here with the rest of our family. Come and join if any of that sounds interesting

10.01.2022 Regulat weekly movement classes starting up in Mullumbimby tomorrow night (Mondays) 5:30-7pm

09.01.2022 Living things depend on water, but it breaks down DNA and other key molecules. So how did the earliest cells deal with the water paradox?

09.01.2022 "We seem to be living through the biologic revolution,...So far, we don't seem to have been really shocked by anything among the items of new knowledge. There is surprise, even astonishment,...I was raised in the belief that these [organelles] were obscure little engines inside my cells, owned and operated by me or my cellular delegates, private, submicroscopic bits of my intelligent flesh. Now, it appears, some of them, and the most important ones at that, are total strange...Continue reading

08.01.2022 Awesome stuff from Tom McElroy

08.01.2022 Spotted tail quoll!

07.01.2022 Had a nice chat with one of my favourite online buddies Corey Hess, for his Zen Embodiment podcast.

06.01.2022 Great video with some excellent games: "1991 video, commemorating the Ten Years of Activities of the Capoeira Angola Pelourinho Group in Rio de Janeiro, directed by Antonio Carlos Muricy. Edited from a selection of VHS videos from the group's archives, it gathers great shakes, great angoleiros, cariocas or not, such as Mestres Moraes, Neco Pelourinho, Zé Carlos, Braga, Marco Aurélio, Armandinho, Angolinha, Lumumba, Rogério, Valmir , Brinco, Manoel, among others. Despite the p...recarious technical quality, it portrays extraordinary moments of Capoeira Angola in Rio, and even rare games, such as the "Jogo do Dinheiro", registered here in two great moments, one the game of Mestre Neco Pelourinho with Mestre Braga, and the other a game between Mestre Armandinho and Mestre Zé Carlos. It also brings a rare moment of violence in a circle of Angola, when Mestre Rogério applies a stingray tail to Mestre Lumumba and hits him hard. Lumumba's calm and serenity in recovering and responding to Rogério in Capoeira in the game is extraordinary. It brings reflections by Mestre Pastinha, the Guardian of Capoeira Angola, and a short history of Capoeira, narrated by Mestre Brinco and Mestre Neco Pelourinho. Memory of Capoeira Angola carioca, pure gold." See more

06.01.2022 Dating as far back as 2.6 million years ago, the Oldowan tools were likely manufactured by Homo habilis, and are a major milestone in human evolutionary history.

04.01.2022 There is not much information on artefacts used by Stone Age humans to make sound and music but the first comprehensive survey is a good start.

04.01.2022 All hail the ancestral tetrapod

04.01.2022 Via Erwan Cloarec

02.01.2022 Cannot confirm the accuracy, but enjoy thinking about pre-Indo-European history.

02.01.2022 Regular weekly training in Ancestral Movement starting this week in Mullumbimby, Heritage Park by the river (Mill St), every Monday evening (EDIT: NEW TIME!) 4:30-6pm, until daylight savings kicks in in October. Training to reawaken the innate movement skills of the human body and reconnect to the rest of the living world. Evolutionary anatomy: exercises to mobilise, strengthen, soften and sensitise every part of the body, particularly the deepest hidden and forgotten areas -... the spine, the ribcage, abdomen, pelvis and hips, gradually rediscovering the evolutionary, animal, human body. Locomotion patterns, climbing, balancing, crawling, jumping, tumbling and natural parkour. Partner exercises, games, contact, roughhousing and wrestling. Brain training, exercises for coordination, rhythm, balance, reflexes, spatial skills. Rehabilitation and prehabilitation for every part of the body. Breath training, relaxation, qigong, deep body awareness and nature awareness practices. Classes will be a mix of soft and hard training, but practices are always adjustable to the needs of each individual. People of all fitness levels and body types are extremely welcome. Cost is $25 full/$20 concession For more information on the methods and the teacher, check out http://ancestralmovement.com/about/ Or call/message Simon at 0431166737 Photo is from spring retreat in Araluen last year before the bushfires, by Dan Haley Photography.

01.01.2022 Ancestral Movement Zoom classes are on this Sunday and next Sunday (830-10am AEDT, Sydney time), and then we'll take a break for a few weeks and start up again in January. They're informal, drop-in classes, working through some of the evolutionary anatomy and animal body practices which can be done solo with just a little bit of floor space. We've been going into the practices for waking up the muscles and movements of the entire spine at every vertebral segment, segmented mo...vements of the abdominal walls and ribcage, "soft strength" fluid body connected three dimensional movement, linking through all of the joints from the head to the tail and the fingers to the toes, head movement (or whole-body movement in support of the head and eyes), and various other things. Discussing and linking in current theories of neuroplasticity and brain training, pain science and rehabilitation, the deeper aspects of yoga, internal alchemy and qigong, and practices for embedding different states of awe-filled nature appreciation, deep time, ecological cycles and so on into our bodies. It's not a course - we'll be releasing some courses early next year - but it's a way to connect on a weekly basis, practice some great stuff, and have regular feedback through the live Q&A and via email. https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/ancestral-movement-zoom-cla