Move Your Mind: Physical Kōans

Making your movements a riddle can help you be more creative

Oct 09, 2023

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Move Your Mind is a short exercise to start your week in the realm of Yoga Culture’s Yoga & Writing. Sometimes metaphorical, other time scientific, we explore new directions with fun.

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Notes:

•Zen Kōans
•Creativity and Zen
•Raphan Kebe – Space & Flow
•David Foster Wallace: “Authority and American Usage”
•Neuroscience, hatha yoga, and creativity
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I am convinced that changing something about your physical situation could stimulate writing, or new ways of writing. For years I wished I could write but rarely produced anything substantial. When my situation changed significantly I had a period of very rapid creativity, as if years of ideas were being expelled. It is so interesting to hear how more freedom or indeed a constraint can affect the mental processes. Thank you, this was really interesting.

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Jon

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Liked this this morning. Opens your mind to how your body moves and why it moves that way.

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Making your movements a riddle can help you be more creative

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