Tata OmeAkaEhekatl Erick Gonzalez is a Mayan spiritual guide, initiated into Native sacred rites over a twenty five year period from various Native spiritual elders throughout the Americas. With a Master’s degree in psychology, Tata Erick, as he is fondly called by his students and devotees, integrates body, mind, and spirit in a holistic way. Earlier this winter, Tata Erick and I sat down to discuss the aging body and its relation to the greater whole. (more)

The scent of spring wafts across the southern California coastline bringing new perspectives under the soft light of the new crescent moon! As the seasons turn, BODIESINSPACE is proud to announce virtual visionary Tobey Crockett’s coming on board the GGI brain trust. Over the next four weeks Doc Crockett will be offering a [...]

As the tipping point of brain-fitness reaches a media apex, world wide systems of education are slowly catching up with the lessons of vanguard neuroscience.
Thanks to the Society for Neuroscience, the Dana Alliance and other neuroscience communities and foundations, brain awareness is filtering into classrooms, lecture halls and seminar rooms where the language of brain [...]

“Where there is no blue, there is no green“…. A haunting phrase that has clouded my mind for a week since TED prize winner Sylvia Earle first uttered the words in her speech to the TED community. …..”Where there is no blue, there is no green. Where there is no ocean, [...]

Systems Thinkers Take Note!: Electric Cars and Wind Turbines are rendered systemic by today’s great minds!
In the July 27, 2008 Opinion section of the Sunday New York Times. op.ed. writer Thomas Friedman offered up a fantastic commentary on the collective genius that is popping up to problem solve the current oil crisis, [...]

I was honored to present a 3 minute TEDDIY on Intelligent Mobility International at TED 2009, Palm Springs satellite. While IMI continues to refine their social entrepreneurial vision below is an image pointing to the elegance of the team’s innovative design thinking:

With Valentine’s Day just around the bend, a SpaceSuit Yoga suggestion for bringing youth and romance back into your life!:
Why not reduce years and capitalize on oxytocin bonding (monogamy) and synaptic bonding (neurogenesis) by means of exercise? Synchronized Swimming? Doubles Yoga? Couples Tennis? Or if aerobics in the bedroom doesn’t cut [...]

Innovation abounds in art, design and engineering!
Today, in the area of intentionally, thought-controlled movement, the old slogan, “Great Minds Think Alike,” marks a fantastic convergence in art and biotech histories! Consider the following example:
Yesterday, the NY Times reported on a ground-breaking project developed by a biomed-tech team at the Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago:

According to [...]

We at BODIESINPACE are pleased to honor the birthdays of both Charles Darwin and Abraham Lincoln two thought leaders — both born in 1809 — who changed human and cultural history by rethinking what it means to be free and evolving bodies in space.

Our suggestions for birthday celebration? Ask a question, start a wiki, blog [...]

Of the four days dedicated to cross fertilizing of ideas, TED Day 2 was clearly dedicated to celebrating cultural creatives. The thematic words alone give you the BIG idea: See. Understand. Invent. Dream.
For TEDsters raised on Enlightenment values, the 4-part Quixotic platform was music to their ears. To those bred on the Who’s TOMMY, [...]