“Some things benefit from shocks; they thrive and grow when exposed to volatility, randomness, disorder, and stressors and love...

“Things get bad for all of us, almost continually, and what we do under the constant stress reveals who/what we are.” ― Charles Bukowski,...

“When you do something, you should do it with your whole body and mind; you should be concentrated on what you do. You should do it...

"Wanting to get out of the pain is the pain." -Alan Watts, The Wisdom of Insecurity: A Message for an Age of Anxiety It is a challenging...

"If one really wishes to be a master of an art, technical knowledge of it is not enough. One has to transcend technique so that the art...

"The arts of Zen are not intended for utilitarian purposes, or for purely aesthetic enjoyment, but are meant to train the mind, indeed,...

"Let's consider a reevaluation of the situation in which we assume that the stuckness now occurring, the zero of consciousness, isn't the...

"All inventive and creative people, they're not hung up on fixed definitions of what any form of life or reality may be." -Alan Watts I...

"There is a vitality, a life-force, an energy, a quickening that is translated through you into action and because there is only one of...

I recently spoke with Nelson Cuadras for his The Daily Practice podcast. This was an enjoyable conversation because we spoke at length...

"It doesn't have to be fun to be fun." Mark Twight Resilience is a powerful skill. Unfortunately, we exist in a culture of comfort....

"The most difficult subjects can be explained to the most slow-written man if he has not formed any idea of them already; but the ...

"First find out what you are capable of, then decide who you are." -Tara Westover, paraphrasing a mentor in her book Educated If you have...

One of our Movement Brooklyn members, Stacy, recommended this film to me last week: Mr Gaga: A True Story of Love and Dance. I admit that...

"The athlete you remember is the beautiful dancing athlete." -Edward Villella Celebrated movement does not appear through constant...

"Learn the skills, and when the time comes, you'll be ready". If I created a required reading list for Movement Brooklyn, this would be...

An excellent interview in GQ with my coach Ido Portal about the cons of "fitness," facing fears, and the power of weakness. Read: Why You...