You don't have to be injured to experience a great deal of physical pain. Dr. Perry is here to help us find out how to begin the process of healing our emotional traumas to live a free and healthy life. 👍 Liked it? Like it! ♥️ Loved it? Subscribe! (if you haven't already) ------------------------------ 🗒️ SHOW NOTES 00:00 - Intro 03:31 - Play Prescription 10:06 - Pain and Balancing the Systems 19:42 - The Lymphatic System 23:55 - The Healing Hierarchy 42:50 - Outro ----------------------------...
May 11, 2020•43 min
How can play and movement variability bring relief to those who are suffering from chronic pain? Dr. Perry Nickelston is joining us today to talk about the complex subject that is pain science, and how our thoughts and emotions play a bigger role in chronic pain than most people imagine. 👍 Liked it? Like it! ♥️ Loved it? Subscribe! (if you haven't already) ------------------------------ 🗒️ SHOW NOTES 00:00 - Intro 06:28 - Perry’s Background 10:05 - Play and Pain 25:17 - Psychological Injuries ...
May 04, 2020•1 hr 14 min
Your movement practice should not only improve the health and function of your body, it should also feed your passion for life. K-Star is back for our 50th episode to talk about how to strike a balance between natural movement and conventional fitness so we can get the absolute best from both worlds. 👍 Liked it? Like it! ♥️ Loved it? Subscribe! (if you haven't already) ------------------------------ 🗒️ SHOW NOTES 00:00 - Intro 05:12 - Examining the Role of Natural Movement 32:17 - Finding and ...
Apr 27, 2020•57 min
A movement practice should be a continual source of health, learning and personal growth. But can it actually have the opposite effect? K-Star is on the podcast today to talk about this subject and more! 👍 Liked it? Like it! ♥️ Loved it? Subscribe! (if you haven't already) ------------------------------ 🗒️ SHOW NOTES 00:00 - Intro 05:14 - Finding New Challenges 09:45 - The Training Spectrum 20:13 - The Essential Aspects 33:54 - Overtraining 45:07 - Dietary Tribalism 56:40 - Outro There’s nothi...
Apr 20, 2020•57 min
What does it mean to be your most heroic self? In today's episode we examine why it takes more than a warrior ethos to achieve heroism. 👍 Liked it? Like it! ♥️ Loved it? Subscribe! (if you haven't already) ------------------------------ 🗒️ SHOW NOTES 00:00 - Intro 05:15 - Examining the Heroic Archetype 16:56 - The Problem of Hubris 22:49 - The Virtues and Agape 25:41 - Embracing the Feminine Heroic 36:09 - Humility and Heroism 43:35 - Investing in Community 52:33 - The Middle Path 57:50 - Comi...
Apr 13, 2020•1 hr 8 min
Have you ever wondered why humans love music and dance? In this episode Simon Thakur helps us uncover what role dance played in the lives of our ancestors and how we used our bodies to tell stories before we had even developed speech. Check it out! 👍 Liked it? Like it! ♥️ Loved it? Subscribe! (if you haven't already) --------------- 🗒️ SHOW NOTES 00:00 - Intro 05:59 - Aliveness in Martial Arts 21:22 - Constraint Led Learning 26:19 - Opposing Objectives 31:56 - Solving Movement Problems 42:11 -...
Apr 06, 2020•1 hr 30 min
Is a nature connection practice possible even in the midst of quarantines and lock downs? Today we've got EMP coach and wilderness awareness mentor Kyle Koch on the podcast to give some insight how to develop a connection to nature, even if you're sheltered in your city apartment. 👍 Liked it? Like it! ♥️ Loved it? Subscribe! (if you haven't already) ------------ 🗒️ SHOW NOTES 00:00 - Intro 04:37 - Kyle’s Background 17:23 - The Western Red Cedar 22:08 - The Urban Wild 38:25 - Attuning the Visio...
Mar 30, 2020•1 hr 18 min
The coronavirus is wreaking havoc across the world, yet there are still some who believe extensive protective measures are an overreaction. That's ridiculous, and we have Erich Lin back on the show today to help us explain why. 👍 Liked it? Like it! ♥️ Loved it? Subscribe! (if you haven't already) https://www.youtube.com/user/Faelcind?sub_confirmation=1 ➡️ Share this Video: https://youtu.be/yV6bgLk0mlM ------------------------------ 🗒️ SHOW NOTES 00:00 - Intro 04:47 - Not the Flu 09:14 - Observ...
Mar 26, 2020•1 hr 14 min
In order to grow and find truth, we have to test our abilities against an opposing force. Whether you're a scientist, a business person, or a martial artist... the process of competition is vital in finding truth and value in your discipline. 👍 Liked it? Like it! ♥️ Loved it? Subscribe! (if you haven't already) ------------------ 🗒️ SHOW NOTES 00:00 - Intro 04:42 - The Answer Seeking Method 09:08 - Constraint Led Approach 18:27 - Opponent Processing 24:39 - Taking the Gloves Off 34:48 - Growin...
Mar 23, 2020•1 hr 55 min
Is your movement practice in need of some spring cleaning? Erich Lin has spent years cutting through the clutter of his strength training program and his philosophy can help you get more gains in less time, so you can spend more time practicing what you love. 👍 Liked it? Like it! ♥️ Loved it? Subscribe! (if you haven't already) ---------------- 🗒️ SHOW NOTES 00:00 - Erich Lin Intro 05:28 - Philosophy of Health 14:12 - Importance of feedback 22:00 - Phenomenology v. Theory 27:23 - The Lindy Eff...
Mar 16, 2020•2 hr 18 min
The coronavirus is spreading across the globe and those of us in the movement community are going to play a vital role in the health and safety of our communities. Here's what you should know and do to help get through this epidemic! 👍 Liked it? Like it! ♥️ Loved it? Subscribe! (if you haven't already) ------------------------------ As movement professionals, the threat of a pandemic like this one can understandably be hard to come to terms with. We make our living bringing people together to w...
Mar 10, 2020•18 min
The way you train directly affects the way you perform and the way you live. Are you stuck training dead patterns and irrelevant drills? Let's take a look at how you can breathe some life into your practice! 👍 Liked it? Like it! ♥️ Loved it? Subscribe! (if you haven't already) ------------------------------ 🗒️ SHOW NOTES 00:00 - Intro 04:30 - Aliveness in Martial Arts 11:38 - Parkour, Gymnastics, Track & Field 23:24- Team Sports and the Constraint Led Approach 29:33 - Constraints, Affordan...
Mar 02, 2020•56 min
Are you a movement coach looking to revolutionize the way you train your students? Using a constraint lead approach is a surefire way to improve skill acquisition and overall engagement in your program. Check it out! 👍 Liked it? Like it! ♥️ Loved it? Subscribe! (if you haven't already)and don't forget to share! ------------------------------ 🗒️ SHOW NOTES 00:00 - Intro 02:53 - Input and Output 10:27 - Do No Harm 19:23 - Open and Closed Skills 27:33 - The Power of Task Constrained Learning and ...
Feb 24, 2020•1 hr 42 min
Think parkour is all about big jumps and flashy tricks? What if we told you it could lead to a deeper understanding of yourself, your community, and the way you approach hurdles in your life? 👍 Liked it? Like it! ♥️ Loved it? Subscribe! (if you haven't already) ------------------------------ 🗒️ SHOW NOTES 00:00 - Intro 05:44 - Kasturi’s History 11:48 - The Therapeutic Practice 31:50 - Why Am I Here? 40:28 - Life and Sport 55:35 - The Parkour Counter Culture 01:11:51 - Costs and Benefits 01:21:...
Feb 17, 2020•1 hr 46 min
In our last three podcast episodes, we’ve gone a long way towards explaining why it’s important for humans to approach motor learning and skill acquisition from a standpoint of ecological dynamics. The human organism is an incredibly complex system of systems and for millions of years we’ve learned skills primarily by means of environmental necessity. If a problem or an opportunity arises, our survival could hinge on our ability to adapt and overcome the situation. This adaptability is one of ou...
Feb 10, 2020•1 hr 32 min
SHOW NOTES 00:00 - Intro 03:44 - Shawn’s Background 08:05 - Teaching Without Teaching 11:26 - What is Ecological Dynamics? 17:38 - Scaling Complexity, Manipulating Constraints 30:54 - The Zone of Optimal Challenge 35:24 - The Performance is the Screen 39:34 - Aliveness 46:57 - Task Constrained Learning 50:16 - Zooming In and Zooming Out 54:48 - Attention, Intention and Calibration 1:15:01 - Balancing Extrinsic and Intrinsic Attention 1:25:23 - Becoming Movement Problem Solvers How do humans lear...
Jan 27, 2020•1 hr 34 min
We believe that the practice of movement is more than learning neat tricks and improving our physical aesthetics. While those things are great, what we are aimed at is a practice that goes beyond just the physical and improves as many aspects of our lives as possible. Movement is essentially an expression of the self— the body-mind organism that we are. It is how we interact with and experience literally everything going on within and around us. Our connections to the environment, to others, and...
Jan 20, 2020•1 hr 16 min
It might seem obvious, but it’s incredibly important to understand that humans are complex. Not only are we physically complex, but we’re cognitively, emotionally, and socially complex as well. This is in big part because we must survive in a world that is just as mind numbingly complex as we are and, often times, directly hostile towards us. Existing amidst this complexity has required that we become a versatile and adaptive system of systems that is properly equipped to recognize, understand, ...
Jan 13, 2020•1 hr 2 min
If a picture is worth a thousand words, then a story is worth countless lessons. Each person who listens to a tale can see it freshly from the frame of their own life experiences and glean from it a level of wisdom that may have never been otherwise captured. More so, because we continually grow and gain new insights throughout the course of our lives, as we return to these stories time and again we find that they offer us new wisdom that we hadn’t been ready to receive before. John Vervaeke spe...
Jan 06, 2020•45 min
Have you ever sat down by a campfire and listened with rapt attention to a well-told tale? Before we had books, video games and movies this was our most important form of entertainment. Stories are more than just a means of entertainment though, they are an ancient and integral part of the human experience. 44,000 years ago, early humans were etching figures of heroic hunters and mighty beasts onto cave walls in Indonesia. In 1800 BC the epic of Gilgamesh was being scribed onto clay tablets in a...
Dec 17, 2019•18 min
What does movement mean to you? Is it just a fun pastime? Maybe you use it as a tool to reach certain health markers or become more attractive? Is it a grueling obligation or some form of punishment you put yourself through to make up for unhealthy life choices? Whatever it may be, chances are you’ve been conditioned to view movement in some light that doesn’t capture the ways it can truly serve you, your community and your environment as a whole. At Evolve Move Play we’ve taken on the sizeable ...
Dec 10, 2019•30 min
Greetings everybody and welcome back to the Evolve Move Play Podcast! We’ve taken a bit of time off to focus on running retreats and releasing our Natural Parkour Online Course. It will be a few weeks before we are ready to get the podcast running again full steam but we decided to offer this special episode the celebrate the release of our friend Mark Walsh's book Embodiment. Find that book here https://www.amazon.com/Embodiment-Moving-mindfulness-Mark-Walsh/dp/1916249221 For our 31st episode w...
Dec 05, 2019•59 min
We recently held our 2019 Return to the Source seminar and by all accounts it was the best event we’ve put on to date. What started years ago as a three day parkour seminar in nature has blossomed and evolved into an event that time and time again brings people together and reconnects them to core components that make life feel more meaningful. This year we were joined by Aaron Cantor, an incredible coach and friend who’s been on the podcast before. He was both a participant and a facilitator at...
Sep 10, 2019•1 hr 16 min
RETURN TO THE SOURCE AUTUMN RETREAT! Oct 3-6th https://www.evolvemoveplay.com/ev_event/autumn-retreat-2019/ TODAY'S EPISODE Motivation seems to be a big problem. The cost of being a member at your average gym is about $60 a month yet every year about 5.1 million Americans end up wasting a total of around $1.8 billion in unused gym memberships. It’s a strange statistic if you think about it. We all know that movement is vital in maintaining a healthy body and brain. We know that positive lifestyl...
Jul 13, 2019•1 hr
Heisenberg's uncertainty principle asserts that we are always operating in a state of limited understanding. No matter how many variables we take into consideration, no matter how long we worry and fret, we can never have all the data since the amount of data in any given situation is infinite. At the same time, however, humans have minds that are incredibly good at finding patterns, understanding cause and effect, and creating storylines that lead to places of deeper understanding and profound ...
Jun 26, 2019•1 hr 21 min
“To me, ultimately martial arts means honestly expressing yourself… Now it’s very difficult to do. It is easy for me to put on a show and be cocky... I can make all kinds of phony things and be blinded by it. Or I can show you some really fancy movement. But to express oneself honestly, not lying to oneself, and to express myself honestly, now that my friend is very hard to do. “ -Bruce Lee In this podcast we’ve talked a lot about the process of building an ecology of practices around becoming o...
Jun 18, 2019•1 hr 38 min
In this complex and chaotic world, there are an endless array of hobbies, past times, disciplines and studies that can be woven into the tapestry of our lives and choosing the ones that are capable of enriching our existence in the most broadly applicable ways can be an incredibly daunting task. The fact of the matter is that whatever we choose to do carries with it the weight of our time and commitment. Because we devote considerable portions of our lives to these practices it’s worth consideri...
Jun 11, 2019•1 hr 13 min
***Listen to our first conversation with John Vervaeke https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/meaning-crisis-role-movement-practice-john-vervaeke/id1349557801?i=1000434529380 *** As living, thinking creatures, we are constantly faced with problems that must be solved in order to survive and thrive, but have you stopped to think about how do we do it? In the infinite set of variations on how we can act and interact with the world, how do we decode what information is relevant and zero in on action...
Jun 04, 2019•1 hr 54 min
One of the biggest difficulties in progressing as an athlete is deciding on how to structure a training program to best meet the goals that they have set out for themselves. It requires an honest assessment of many different factors such as physical, mental, and emotional capabilities and a firm understanding of how the body and mind work to enhance and sustain performance. Many athletes deal with a lot of frustration around hitting plateaus while many of them struggle to incorporate training ro...
May 28, 2019•1 hr 19 min
“...the sea's only gifts are harsh blows and, occasionally, the chance to feel strong. Now, I don't know much about the sea, but I do know that that's the way it is here. And I also know how important it is in life not necessarily to be strong but to feel strong, to measure yourself at least once, to find yourself at least once in the most ancient of human conditions, facing blind, deaf stone alone, with nothing to help you but your own hands and your own head...” -an excerpt from 'Bear Meat' by...
May 21, 2019•1 hr 10 min
