“We want to offer people the opportunity to step out of their daily lives and feel what it’s like to be in their body.” Dave Nelson https://www.sevendaysvt.com/vermont/savu-seeks-to-reinvent-the-sauna-experience-in-vermont-and-beyond
Touch is a language we cannot afford to forget (Aeon)
“What’s unique about touch, when set against the other senses, is its mutuality. While we can look without being looked back at, we can’t touch without being touched in return.” https://aeon.co/essays/touch-is-a-language-we-cannot-afford-to-forget
Abhyanga
“In Sanskrit, Sneha translates as both oil AND love… take a minute to digest that. This one term suggests that anointing yourself with oil, known as the practice of Abhyanga, represents an act of saturating yourself with love. While practicing Abhyanga, your breath slows; you savor the moment of caring for your body; you embrace…
Odes to Indolence
“Dolce far niente’ is a wonderful Italian expression meaning ‘sweet doing nothing’, and it illustrates the dreamy, hedonistic, self-indulgent nature of indolence, and the enjoyment of it.”
Get Your Hair Done
“…being touched and groomed is one of the seven most common experiences in the world.”—Patrick McIvor
Door Jam Aerial Yoga
“How to recycle a woven baby scarf ? How to practice aerial yoga without a strong ceiling? I pulled out this gorgeous @littlefrog_pl woven baby scarf. I love its colours and the fact it is not stretchy, which gives great support to the back….you can make a knot and hang the fabric at the door…
Why we hold hands: Dr. James Coan
“At a deeper level…we hold hands to send eachothers’ brains a signal, and that signal is something like ‘I am here with you. I am here with you. I am here with you.’” …
Materialism vs. Consumerism
“If we were things-lovers we’d have better things, and few things we don’t use. Market competition would drive products to become better and better, instead of just more plentiful.”
Dacher Keltner on the importance of touch
“A pat on the back, a caress of the arm—these are everyday, incidental gestures that we usually take for granted, thanks to our amazingly dexterous hands. “But after years spent immersed in the science of touch, I can tell you that they are far more profound than we usually realize: They are our primary language…