Quotes That Have Inspired Me
“The world of the body is far more than one of sets, reps and calories. It is immensely rich and endlessly fascinating – an ideal life-long study”
“ What we really need is to… create a culture that honours movement, exuberance, play, health and broad-based physicality”
“Our bodies and our minds thrive on frequent movement of all kinds. Diversity contributes to sustainability which, in turn, contributes to psychophysical health”
“For most of us, learning has been about performing well, doing it right, and getting it quickly. This kind of focus narrows our field of attention. Being open to the risk of not ‘getting it’ shifts the focus and heightens our potential for an expanded field of attention”
“Fixed ideas are inextricably bound up with physical tensions and fixations. You don’t get one without the other.”
“Poise, integrity, and coordination will not be achieved by force. The body’s integrity reveals itself when we refrain from interfering with that very balance. Our work is to observe how we interfere and how we address ourselves in a tyrannical tone”
“The biggest obstacle to doing well in a lesson is the desire to do well”
“Here, you are to enjoy the process and not worry about the results”
“Changing our bodies to improve their perceived imperfections, or to please others, can see us trapped in a never-ending cycle. An alternative option is not to change our bodies – but rather to change the way we feel about them.”
“If every letter of the alphabet was a movement, children use the whole alphabet whereas adults only use the vowels”
“If a job’s worth doing, it’s worth doing well”
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