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change your body, change the world

exuberant animals

at play

philosophy and practice of natural fitness


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"Know, rst, who you are; andthen adorn yourself accordingly."

Epictetus


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I see thateverything in naturearises from thepower of free playsloshing against thepower of limits.

StephenNachmanovitchFree Play:

Improvisation in Lifeand Art


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"Man is most nearlyhimself when heachieves the

seriousness of achild at play."

Herodotus, Greekhistorian


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"Life begets life. Energy creates energy.It is by spending oneself that onebecomes rich."

Sarah Bernhardt


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"Pleasure is power."Kay Redeld Jamison

Exuberance


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There is more wisdom in your bodythan in your deepest philosophy.

Nietzsche:


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Coordination is the qualitywhich enables the individualto integrate all the powersand capabilities of his whole organism into an effectivedoing of an act.

Bruce Lee


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photo courtesy Stuart Brown MD, National Institute for Play

"Each day, and the living of it, has to be aconscious creation in which discipline andorder are relieved with some play and purefoolishness."

May Sarton


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"Play is the exultation of the possible."

Martin Buber


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"The Universe is constituted to maximize play. The best games are notthose in which all goes smoothly to conclusion, but those in which theoutcome is always in doubt. The geometry of life is designed to keep us onthe crux between certainty and uncertainty, order and chaos."

George Leonard


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"Genius is childhoodrecalled at will."

Charles Baudelaire


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"The supreme accomplishment is toblur the line between work and play."

Arnold Toynbee


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Concentration is the secret of strength.

R.W. Emerson


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There is a beast in man that should be exercised, not exorcised.

A.S. LaVey


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wild dogs: Kruger National Park, South Africa

We play because we have an exuberance of spirits and energy,but we are also exuberant because we play.Kay Redeld Jamison


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"A creature that once knows thepleasure of play will derivesatisfaction from it even whenyouth is gone."

Karl Groos The Play of Animals


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"We are all sculptors and painters, and our materialis our own esh and blood and bones."

Henry David Thoreau


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"I played with an idea, and grew willful; tossed it into the air;transformed it; let it escape and recaptured it; made itiridescent with fancy, and winged it with paradox."

Oscar Wilde


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Animals that play togethertend to stay together.

Mark Bekhoff


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Produced by the primal scholar with special thanks toLauren Muney, Kwame Brown, Sebastien Alary and theBarefoot Sensei.

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