Evolve Move Play Podcast

The society we live in today is the safest and most prosperous society that has ever existed on the planet. The likelihood of dying due to illness, murder, or starvation have dramatically plummeted in the last 100 years. More people are being lifted out of abject poverty now than ever before, while the everyday technologies we hold in our hands grant us the full extent of human knowledge and enter...

"The tao that can be told is not the eternal tao. The name that can be named is not the eternal name. The nameless is the mother of all things. The named gives rise to the 10,000 things." -Tao Te Ching In today's episode of the Evolve Move Play Podcast we speak with Marcello Palozzo, a parkour athlete and movement coach who has been dedicated to the process of self mastery and exploration for over...

On this week's episode of the Evolve Move Play podcast we talk with Aaron Cantor, an embodiment and movement teacher who has spent the last 15 years creating and sharing his Primal Practice. Over the course of an hour and a half we speak at length about using the incredible power of story telling to enrich our abilities to teach, learn, and live.  The art of telling stories is ancient. The Epic of...

One of the most common questions I get from people who are interested in taking on the practice of parkour is “Am I too old for this?” Always the answer is no. Parkour is for everyone. It’s the practice of moving our bodies more gracefully and efficiently through complex environments, which is exactly what our bodies are evolved to do. I understand that it can be easy to watch parkour videos on Yo...

In this episode of the Evolve Move Play Podcast, well known genetics, evolution and history blogger Razib Khan is my guest, I have been following Razib's work since 2005 and he has been a major influence in understanding Evolution and Genetics in depth. In this interview I specifically wanted to review the ideas around how evolution can produce broken solutions, or break useful adaptions when sele...

This week my guest is Mark Walsh teacher of the Embodied yoga principles and embodied facilitator course. We dive deep into the intersection between, somatics, movement based therapy, yoga and martial arts and what embodiment training is all about.

Check out all our podcasts at www.evolvemoveplay.com/evolve-move-play-podcast Jozef Frucek is of the most inspirational movement teachers I have encountered and Fighting Monkey is an incredible practice. He was on fire in this interview. We were all over the place with too many ideas thrown out to track completely. Fighting Monkey and Evolve Move Play are very similar conceptually and contain many...

Stephane Vigroux can speak to this personally, in 2001 right before parkour exploded into mainstream consciousness Stephane tore his knee during a shoot for Nike. This was one of the earliest commerical shoots for parkour and at that time Stephane was one of the top athletes on the orginal Traceurs team. The Traceurs were the team David Belle had founded after leaving the Yamakasi. Stephane had be...

"There is no better way to keep good people weak, then to tell them they will magically become bad people if become powerful."" This weeks podcast features a second sit down with celebrated self defense author Rory Miller. In this episode we dig deep into. 1. The problem of orienting effectively as finite creature in an infinite world. 2. How we evolved to be powerful 3. Why our education systems...

Last week we introduced our new podcast season with discussion of nutrition from a brain based perspective focused on food but looking at how products in general hijack our reward centers. This week we are looking at nutrition and the problems of the modern world from the perspective of movement, bio-mechanics and movement ecology with Katy Bowman! Katy Bowman has been a huge influence on my think...

Why do we get fat? Why do we overeat? Many people think it’s because of too many carbs, others claim it’s due to much fat. The answer is more complicated and it has implications that stretch far beyond diet. We get fat in large part because modern industrialized foods are designed to hijack our reward systems and create addictive responses. So says our first podcast guest of the new EMP podcast se...

Simon Thakur is one of my absolute favorite thinkers in natural movement. It was an honor and pleasure to recently get the chance to teach with and learn from him we sat down and recorded a few days after a camp he runs that I guest coached at. Topic covered include The importance of the deep time evolutionary perspective on human movement What neurobiology tells us about how the brain adapts to m...

Enjoy this great conversation with amazing mover and movement thinker Tom Weksler. One of my favorite interviews so far. Lots to think about in the art of coaching and self cultivation that was brought up here. Concepts covered include Minimalism in teaching The Wabi Sabi Concept The consilience of modern scientific approaches to training with Zen and Taosist concepts The roll of dance in movement...

This one is going to be controversial. Like it or not violence was major feature of human evolution, to understand ourselves and the movement capacities we have its a vital thing to study and few people have seen as deeply into that world as Rory Miller. He has been huge influence on my understanding of violence human nature and movement for 10 years and it was an amazing pleasure to interview and...

Frank Forencich of Exuberant Animal was one of the really early influential thinkers on applying the evolutionary paleo perspective to movement practice, one of the first great play advocates and great author.

We are super excited to share our first ever Evolve Move Play podcast featuring Kelly Starrett and Juliet Starrett. We had an awesome discussion on how to balance natural movement and formal movement practice in a modern life and much much more.