Swart Donkey

You don’t learn much about whether a process works, when it is working. The most powerful creative forces are time and consistency. But fo...

What you focus on isn’t all there is. Like most of us, I identify with the voice(s) in my head. That is “me”. The tricky narrator(s) with ...

I don’t believe honesty is verbal. You can’t just vomit the truth. We aren’t always even conscious of our “truth”. We are all incredibly s...

In her book “Sweat your Prayers”, Gabrielle Roth tells the story of an Indian cab driver who was asked how he survived the chaos of big Ci...

I started going to “5Rhythms” classes about 4 months ago. I am a creature of the head, and 5Rhythms is an intentional attempt to shift atte...

Personally, I struggle to know how to support both myself and friends with Mental Health, more than I do with explicit “my leg is on fire”...

One of the techniques used in teaching people to draw is to forget the object. Draw the negative spaces. Don’t draw the chair. Draw the sh...

Our bodies are not simply transportation devices for our heads. It is easy to think the thoughts we are conscious of are where our best th...

We run along parallel to many sources of joy, meaning and fulfilment if we define ourselves to narrowly . If we aren't able to overco...

One of the divisions between Western and Eastern thinking seems to be the way we view the mind and body as a separate things. ' I thin...

Because of a habit of bloody violence every time the bossman changed his view (and the evolution democracy), the West separated the ideas o...

Last night, Ponciano told our Capoeira class the story of ' The Tiger who killed a Wife '. The husband was so distressed, he grab...

The early stages of learning something can leave you completely disorientated . I had glimpses of 'ooo, I think I just got that' in...

We learn through pain and turmoil . But if your artists are good enough, that pain and turmoil doesn't have to be a direct experience. ...

' This impact is bliss for your body. Right now it is ow, ow, ow, but in a month or two it will be woo, woo, woo. You are not made of s...

Do you dive in at the deep end, or gently wade? After my first class of Capoeira last Sunday, I attended a beginner's class on Thursda...

You have to start somewhere. Last night I met someone who did, and loved Capoeira, so today I did my first Capoeira class . The Dance Attic...

If my theory is right that we are a small hump away from many sources of joy - dance is definitely one of those humps for me. What I lack ...

Ken Robinson  points out that if you ask a classroom full of 5 year olds who can draw, they all put their hands up. If you ask a group of 1...