The Innerverse Way
Beyond Training
The aim is to expand beyond standard models of “fitness,” which don’t address the disconnect most of us experience between our minds, bodies, and environment. We start by building interoception (an understanding and awareness of our internal bodies) and proprioception (our understanding and awareness of our external bodies in space). We do this through movement skills development, meditation, mindfulness, nutrition, and immersing ourselves in the elements. We can then progress to “fitness” — balance, stability, muscular endurance, strength, and sport-specific athleticism. Rather than obsessing over goals, we accentuate habits and consistency, daily awareness and focus. Rather than how we look, we focus on how we feel, and on opening our minds through the use of our bodies.
World As Mind
“Our brains evolved to solve the forest.”
— Richard Powers
Contrary to popular belief, our brains are not “thinking” machines; they are complex movement organizers and assimilators, evolved to rapidly assess our surroundings and engage in complex motor sensory tasks in complex environments. Thinking is not really possible without movement, and lots of it. Our minds are extensions of our surrounding environment, where each independent relationship between each part is stimuli that engages our bodies and brains. Diverse, wholly embodied movement is critical for our awareness to flourish.
Facilitating Growth
Pushing the boundaries of what we do and know stimulates profound changes in our lives.
To paraphrase Galileo Galilei: you can’t teach a person anything; you can only help them find it within themselves.
My job as a teacher is to hold space for you and provide an environment in which you are able to explore the edges of your embodied experience, so that you can expand your abilities and awareness, tuning your mind, body, and spirit to deeper relationships with your self and with the sensate world.
