Join Derek Notman and Kathryn Hayward as they explore themes of becoming more curious about your body’s experience, your “felt sense,” and how to listen more deeply to yourself and others so you can become more balanced and harmonious in your life.
For over three decades, Derek has dedicated his life to the study of physical culture and philosophy. This pursuit has led him all over the world, including time living in China and South East Asia, studying with traditional masters of martial arts, movement arts and healing arts.
A long time ago, Derek told Kathryn this story of when he was studying with a martial arts master in China:
We had all been studying with this master for many weeks, and were getting pretty skilled. One day he asked our group of students to form a circle around him and he stood in the center. He said, “I want each of you to use all your skills to knock me off balance.” We all tried our best and no one could knock him off balance. Finally, one frustrated student said, “Master, we don't have the skills to knock you off balance!” The master smiled and said, “That is the lesson. Each of you knocked me off balance. What you witnessed is that I am so skilled in rebalancing myself with ease and grace that your eyes could not detect that you had indeed moved me.”
Derek’s teachings can help you learn skills to rebalance yourself more and more quickly, with increasing ease and grace.
One important question that Kathryn and Derek talk about is:
How do bodywork and movement enhance your wholeness?
An Integrative Whole Health approach to your life is essential in your Living Whole journey, and Derek’s approach to bodywork and movement will help you develop your curiosity and your listening skills.
In Jin Shin Jyutsu we say, “look until you hear, listen until you see.”
-Derek Notman
Derek Notman has a strong passion for helping people discover their fullest potential to live healthier and happier lives, and he cultivates a practice of movement and bodywork, which play a vital role in our ability to live well. In his experience, sensory feeling awareness regulates our motor function through the nervous system’s controls of the muscular system. This quality of attention is the single most beneficial skill we can develop to maintain health, release pain, and improve physical performance.
“The beauty of a good practice is the continuity it provides despite the constancy of life’s changes, rendering stable ground from which to observe the change.”
-Derek Notman