playing with fire (the play bodies movement gallery)

6 developmental movement patterns

This feels good!

Movement done just to feel good is an end unto itself. Simple movements don't have to be in a line of progression towards complex or skilled movements.

johnnyfit be good

Play bodies' favorite youtube channels for kettlebell creativity.

1. Jt  N  

2. John Wolf

3. Johnnyfit

Previously, play bodies featured Jt N and John Wolf.  Here's s a double feature of Johnny Fit's kettlebell play.

 photo above owned by Universal Attractions, Courtesy of Wikimedia Commons

floor work

Assimilate movements harmoniously. In other words, dance.

 

above photo by Fanny Shertzer, courtesy of Wikimedia Commons.

leap into happiness

happiness is not something
to contemplate
nor procrastinate

simply leap into happiness

~ play bodies



 





above photo:  Szechuan Hermit by John Thomson, courtesy of Wikimedia Commons

silent music

music heard so deeply
that it is not heard at all
but you are the music.

 ~ T.S. Eliot

your road

It's your road and yours alone.
Others may walk with you,
but no one can walk it for you

~ Rumi

above photo (Camino de Santiago del Norte: Ruta del Besaya) by G. Freihaltger, courtesy of Wikimedia Commons

supple movement

"Things that are hard and rigid are the companions of death; Things that are supple and soft are the companions of life." -- Lao Tzu

above photo by Jim G., courtesy of Wikimedia Commons

life is good upside down

Instead of resisting changes, surrender. Let life be with you, not against you. If you think “My life will be upside down,” don’t worry. How do you know down is not better than upside?

~ Shams Tabrizi

Photo by Ulrich Kohls, courtesy of the German Federation Archive and Wikimedia Commons