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Phenomenology
I Was Never Taught a Procedure — Eleven Years of Training, Read Through the Body
Rethinking Embodiment and Skill Acquisition Through Artificial Intelligence — Part 2 of 3 Introduction This series looks at Mind over Machine (1986) by Hubert Dreyfus […] -
Phenomenology
Why Aiming at an Ideal Self Does Not Work — What “Limitation” and “Possibility” Mean
Why Life Changes When You Receive a Bodywork Session (Part 4 of 4) Introduction There is such a thing as ideal posture. Seen from the […] -
Phenomenology
Why You Get Worse the Moment You Think About It — Dreyfus’s Five Stages of Skill Acquisition
Rethinking Embodiment and Skill Acquisition Through Artificial Intelligence — Part 1 of 3 You Can Ride a Bicycle. Can You Explain How? Most of us […] -
Phenomenology
Why You Cannot Relax Just by Deciding To — What “Allowing” Means
Why Life Changes When You Receive a Bodywork Session (Part 3 of 4) Introduction You are asked to let go of the tension. You try. […] -
Phenomenology
Looking at the Same Body, Seeing Different Things — What Gestalt Psychology Revealed About Seeing
Two Names I Was Given in Munich, 2014 Munich, 2014. Phase II of the basic training. The lead instructor was Giovanni Felicioni. An Italian living […] -
Phenomenology
Why the Same Room Feels Wide One Day and Narrow the Next — What “Core” and “Surface” Mean
Why Life Changes When You Receive a Bodywork Session (Part 2 of 4) Introduction The same room feels wide on one day and narrow on […] -
Phenomenology
A Body Is Not the Sum of Its Parts — Where Phenomenology and Gestalt Psychology Diverged
What Phenomenology Changes in Practice — Part 3 of 3 Homework I Set Myself Eleven Years Ago February 2015. A post from my basic training […] -
Phenomenology
Why Good Posture Never Lasts — What “Prereflective” Means
Why Life Changes When You Receive a Bodywork Session (Part 1 of 4) Introduction Most of us have decided at some point to hold ourselves […] -
Phenomenology
I Went to Sharpen My Skills and Arrived at “Being” — What Someone from the Science Side Noticed on the Side of the Body
Introduction The same procedure, and what happens differs from person to person. The same practitioner, and it differs from day to day. Anyone who keeps […] -
Phenomenology
Can Seeing Be Taught? — The Pragmatic Dimension Phenomenology Lacked
What Phenomenology Changes in Practice — Part 2 of 3 Ask an experienced practitioner why they worked where they did, and sometimes no answer comes […]
