For over 30 years, Derek Notman has dedicated himself to the study of physical culture and philosophy. This pursuit has led him all over the world including time living in China and Southeast Asia, studying with traditional masters of martial, movement, and healing arts. Derek has always sought to extract the essence of the traditions while connecting the common elements. Despite the uniqueness of each art and human form, there is a commonality to being in a body and so themes emerge. Derek has made it his life’s work, to investigate and understand these themes and share them with others in a paradigm of traditional wisdom through embodied practice.

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Time Stamps

0:00 Release the body to improve the mind

0:48 Introduction

1:01 Derek’s entrée into Asian philosophy and embodied practices

3:15 Philosophy and cultivation of wisdom

5:35 Considered viewpoints, the need for curiosity, the nature of mind

8:21 Neijia Quan – Taiji, Xingyi, Bagua

9:23 Xinyi Liuhe Quan and Sifu Shi Shueng Peng

11:07 Self-awareness through a broader view and practice of the body

13:37 Everything is trapped in your body

15:41 Shen Fa body movement, the art of the art

17:50 Xinyi Liuhe Quan vs Xing Yi Quan

20:52 Qigong and Neigong practice

24:24 Developing the martial art body

26:38 Release the body, recognize the mind

30:19 The Heart-Mind

31:03 Awareness and the nature of thought

34:55 Indian club swinging and rope flow

38:14 Body movement therapeutics

41:05 Gyrotonics and Tai Chi

42:36 Egoscue Method, body structure and intelligence

44:35 Jin Shin Jyutsu

48:22 Being present in the body

50:52 Tools in a toolbox

51:34 Social media and the value of movement for a disembodied culture

53:25 Resolve physical pain with meditation

55:30 Zhang Zhuan, shoulder tension, mental identification, headless Zen

1:00:49 Simplicity of difficult practice and recognition of the self

1:003:16 Closing remarks

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