He's talking about economics and politics, larger social structures. It applies as well to health, learning, or changing any part of a system. Create the framework that gives actions traction to make positive change, that allows people to do the work themselves.

You can also mention if there are particular topics that you'd like to see covered.

Dameron's back!

After 2 1/2 years away, I have moved my full-time practice back to Downtown Brunswick. (Why did I ever leave? I love this place!) I've missed being a part of this community, and I look forward to seeing all of you around town. I hope life is treating you well.

A lot has changed in 2 1/2 years. My Rolfing practice continues to be active, helping folks with stuck patterns, compensation, and lack of choice in their bodies. Beyond that, I am growing more and more passionate about the development of overall physical health. More than fitness or any particular skill, it is a robust foundation and capacity for any and every activity we do. We must develop it ourselves; no on else can do it for us. Our community (all communities!) need to know what is possible, what they can do, how to rediscover health for themselves. This is something that belongs to all of us, each one. I want to show people how to take it back. There are a number of projects coming together; I hope you'll join us.

Join the mailing list! You can see what's coming, get more detail, and find out how to be a part of this. There might even be a few special deals lurking……

Thank you all for your warm welcome home.

My location:

98 Maine Street, upstairs (yes, my old office!)

The Body use class is being rescheduled to November 15th, to sit alongside next months' Systema workshop (subject TBA).

Brunswick classes are moving to Tuesdays at 4:00, with another class opening up before the end of the year.

Some of the site structure will be shifting, as well, to reflect what's happening here.

Saturday, October 25th I'll be teaching a morning Systema workshop on Contact and Control. The afternoon will be a professional training for bodyworkers on Body Use and Quality of Touch. The event pages will be up shortly.

The Systema workshop will be a perfect introduction and overview for the new and interested, without shying away from some very useful stuff.

Post questions, or send me an email.

We're beginning to get more variety of students in the classes, and having a great time. I look forward to seeing you there, if you're local.

I've been round and round with a million different ideas in my head, ways to begin expressing the perspective and understanding that's been coming. Where to begin? Who's going to hear it first: the golfer, the runner, the weekend warrior with a bad back, or maybe the massage therapists, or holistic health practitioners. Or law enforcement. Or business. Or Universities. Or the retiree with too many years of compensating for the dings and dents of a life lived well.

Different contexts, different messages; and yet it's all the same story.

Bottom line: I see things. No, not ghosts or spirits, anything like that. I see what people are missing, what they need to be whole, to be re-membered. Almost always, it's missing context. A lost sense of where gravity really travels through the body, over-focusing on building strength without learning how to move, trying to fix chemistry without a structure that can maintain it. It's a long list.

Our culture has mastered isolation and refinement of knowledge until it is nearly meaningless to everyday life. We know so much about so much, and yet live as if it wasn't there..... Nutrition, Psychology, Physics... Does knowing what a healthy diet is, modify your behavior? Not usually. It's a very rare person that moves as if physics really applied to their body.

It's not the information, it's how we go about thinking, or moving; how we interact with our environment. We don't realize what the whole picture looks like. With the right context, we can take information and recognize its functional or instrumental value: what does this mean to me, standing here, this moment? We can bring it inside so that it becomes a living part of us, something that informs our experience continuously.

Seeing context clearly also resolves many clashes between differing perspectives: alternative and allopathic medicine, different religious systems, schools of scientific thought.

There's this theory and that theory, and then there's how the critter works.

                                       --Deane Juhan

We're all looking at similar pictures; what lenses (or blinders) do we use to filter our perception? (And yes, the nervous system does a lot of filtering all the time.) Looking at a common focal point from different angles can help us see our subject, and each other's perspective more clearly. Learning directly from another's perspective, or a tug of war over whose language is "better"?

The best part? Everything's got context. Can't get away from it. What I'm talking about here, it doesn't compete or override anything. It sees how they fit, how they inform each other, and us, of the larger picture.

Informing is not the same as delivering information. Inform is derived from the verb to form. When you inform me, you form me. You enlarge that which makes me most human: what I know. I am, to some degree, authored by you.

                                        --Doc Searls

Anyway, that seems to be my strength: to see this and that and the other, how they relate and show us something about the world, about living.

My goal: to express this, to share this with the world (yes, as much of it as I can!)

Who should I be talking to?

May 14th at 7pm

aikido students:free, others:$10