VC Network | Movement and Philosophy w/ Seth Dellinger, Jurnee, Corey Karuna-Manawa, Tim Adalin
Exploring the philosophy of movement — what it means to move well, the relationship between stillness and awareness, and how physical practice becomes a vehicle for self and world discovery. Welcoming movement practitioners Seth Dellinger, Jurnee, Bek and Corey Karuna-Manawa.
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Keywords
movement philosophy, Feldenkrais, somatic inquiry, awareness, stillness, embodiment, movement practice, learning, health, philosophy
Timestamps
00:00 — Opening: Jurnee sets the scene — a recent dance performance, a visit to a movement practitioner in Western Australia, and the desire to explore why we move at all.
02:16 — Seth's opening: movement is about much more than movement. Personal origin story — music as religion, discovering Vervaeke, and the resonance with Feldenkrais.
08:30 — Tim opens the big question: is there such thing as good movement? The group explores negentropy, exchange, and movement as fitting with the environment.
17:52 — Seth on good movement serving life, the trap of self-judgment in yoga class, and Feldenkrais's strategy of going slow and making the movement smaller.
28:00 — Tim on awareness and stillness: the telescope analogy. Stillness as a condition for perceiving flux, not the absence of it.
36:13 — Seth walks through a session: standing, noticing asymmetry, interlacing fingers the wrong way. "There's no such thing as stillness." John Cage and the noisy restaurant.
46:15 — Corey describes the workshop with Jurnee and Bec: weight shifting, breath, ground force, tensegrity. The difference between fitness and movement practice.
56:30 — Feldenkrais's origin story: both knees injured, five months in bed, feeling fifty structures in the knee. Seth coins "somatic inquiry" as call-and-response with the body.
01:02:46 — Corey's provocation: move beyond curiosity. Tim pushes back — is this a religious instruction? The dialectic between submission to process and staying in touch with experience.
01:16:34 — Closing reflections: Feldenkrais's definition of good posture, the politics of movement deferred to next time, trade-offs and finitude, and plans for a round two.
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Seth Dellinger -- A somatic educator trained in the Feldenkrais Method, a meditation guide and relational facilitator. He is the creator of the Grounded Connection program, a blueprint for developing creative wellbeing in a chaotic world through movement, meditation, dialogue and the practice of 'Anytime Anywhere Awareness' which is available as a self-paced digital course and regular live workshops.
Seth's Grounded Connection digital course: https://sethdellinger.com/gc-online-course/
Grounded Connection live workshops: https://calendly.com/grounded-connection
Join Seth’s mailing list: https://sethdellinger.com/presence-mantra/
Substack: https://sethdellinger.substack.com/
Corey Karuna-Manawa — Movement practitioner working in the lineage of Ido Portal (~5–7 years). Focuses on long-term somatic development, postural awareness, and the cultivation of sensitivity through repetitive, intentional practice.
Corey's IG: https://www.instagram.com/being.humbled/
Jurnee -- Dance and martial arts practitioner exploring how to share movement practices more broadly. Recently performed in a dance show that partly inspired this conversation. Voicecraft member and collaborator.
Jurnee's IG: https://www.instagram.com/jurnma/
Tim -- Founder of The Voicecraft Project and a philosopher, speaker, and connector of people, ideas, and praxis. https://www.timadalin.xyz
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