The One You Feed

One evening an old Cherokee told his grandson about a battle that goes on inside people. He said, “My son, the battle is between two “wolves” inside us all. One is Evil. It is anger, envy, jealousy, doubt, sorrow, regret, greed, arrogance, self-pity, guilt, resentment, inferiority, lies, false pride, superiority, and ego. The other is […]

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The Pre-Flight Checklist: Monitoring Fatigue

“A man should look for what is, and not for what he thinks should be.” Albert Einstein   Stress was originally coined by Hans Selye in 1956, describing the general adaptation syndrome where the initial response, the alarm stage, is negative, with the physiological state of the organism decreasing following the imposition of stress shown […]

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Primitive Postures of Restoration

“There are four positions of Zen: Lying Zen, Sitting Zen, Standing Zen, and Walking Zen.” Alan Watts   The terms biomimetics and biomimicry come from Ancient Greek: βίος (bios), life, and μίμησις (mīmēsis), imitation, from μιμεῖσθαι (mīmeisthai), to imitate, from μῖμος (mimos), actor. Influenced by Biomimetics or biomimicry is the imitation of the models, systems, […]

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A Reason For BEing

“When you bow deeply to the universe, it bows back.“ Morihei Ueshiba, Founder of Aikido   Okinawa is one of the five Blue Zones currently in the world where people commonly live beyond 100 years of age, and some of the things that you will notice in these populations: They are closely connected to their families. They […]

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Crawl, Walk, Run – Teachers’ Master Class on Foundational Fitness

“I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.” Confucius   UpRight Movement is now offering a Master Class intended for movement teachers, health practitioners, and advanced students involved in various exercise disciplines. With more than twenty years of intensive study with some of the most highly respected movement […]

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“Omne Trium Perfectum” (everything that comes in threes is perfect.)

“The flame that burns twice as bright burns half as long.” Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching   UpRight Movement helps to support you with its newest Daily Readiness Index handout. The Daily Readiness Index is intended to optimize the combined use of at least two of three monitors that UpRight Movement uses: The Daily Readiness […]

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