May 30

I am beginning to post information about my masters degree here.
Topics of interest include:

  • movement
  • consciousness
  • transformation
  • embodiment
  • body-mind science and philosophy
  • Integral frameworks

I am in the Masters program in Conscious Evolution at The Graduate Institute in Milford, CT.

For my thesis, I am exploring:

What is the relationship between movement, movement practice, and awareness of our movement to the transformation of our individual and collective consciousness?

Now, that’s a very big question to tackle, and I’m working to narrow it down a bit.

Ultimately, I would like to be able to educate and inspire personal trainers, physical therapists, doctors, yogis, and all teachers of movement (who I lovingly call “trainers, teachers, movers and shakers”) in these areas:

  • our role working with bodies is bigger and more important that we imagined, and makes a contribution and impact in more ways that we could have thought.
  • the process of personal transformation has a level of embodiment, and we can grow or we can stifle growth, depending on movement, practice and awareness.
  • all movement is a path, the question is where does it take us?
  • what does how I/we move have to do with who I am/We are?

More information will be posted here. Right now I am looking to contact and interview some of the top thinkers and movers, including yogis, athletic coaches, somatic therapists, elite dancers, body workers, and more.

For more on my thesis, visit this permanent page:

http://www.iglecia.com/masters-research-conscious-evolution/

May 29

This trailer will enlighten you. Right now.

… are you there yet?

Okay, so it won’t work that fast, but the trailer is quite inspiring.
I cannot wait to see it when it comes to Boston.

http://enlightenupthefilm.com

Filmmaker Kate Churchill is determined to prove that yoga can transform anyone. Her plan: select a subject, immerse him in yoga and follow him until he finds a practice that transforms him. Her subject: Nick Rosen a skeptical, 29 year-old journalist living in New York City. Before he can say OM, Nick finds himself twisted up like a pretzel surrounded by celebrity yogis, true believers, kooks and entrepreneurs. The more he investigates yoga the more contradictions he discovers, straying further from Kate’s plan. They circle the globe talking to mystics, gurus, mad men and saints searching for the true meaning of yoga, encountering things they never could have imagined. They don’t find the answers to their questions, they find much more.

“Enlighten Up!” is slated for its world premiere at the Maui International
Film Festival on June 12. If you are looking for an excuse to go to aloha
land, here it is:

For tickets (I wish I could go)
“Enlighten Up!”
Thursday, June 12th 6:00pm
Castle Theater-Maui Arts & Cultural Center

Order tickets online:
http://www.mauifilmfestival.com/mffw_tickets.php

Phone: 808-572-3456 (FILM)
Open daily 10 am – 6 pm (Hawaii Standard Time)

Watch the Enlighten Up! trailer:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kKQw0-IlJiY