Скачать или смотреть The Power of Stories with Aaron Cantor: Evolve Move Play Podcast Episode 15

On this week's episode of the Evolve Move Play podcast we talk with Aaron Cantor, an embodiment and movement teacher who has spent the last 15 years creating and sharing his Primal Practice. Over the course of an hour and a half we speak at length about using the incredible power of story telling to enrich our abilities to teach, learn, and live. 

The art of telling stories is ancient. The Epic of Gilgamesh is the oldest recorded piece of literature, dating back to 2700 BC, and in it are common archetypes that have been found in myth and legends all over the world, which suggests that variants on The Heroes Journey predate writing by thousands of years. The fact that humans are deeply connected to and dependent on stories is further exemplified by the costs of the average feature film budget. Most films run between $70 and $90 million, but the blockbusters can soar into the hundreds of millions, hitting as high as $425 million in the case of James Cameron's Avatar. 

 As instructors, one of the best ways we can convey complex layers of information and meaning to our students is through effective story telling. Utilizing common archetypal themes and characters to represent struggles and journeys that are central to the human experience will almost always hit closer to home than reciting plain raw data or statistics. 

Aaron has been using stories to deepen his students connection to their peers, their movement, and their personal processes of discovery and progress. Come with us as we discuss those stories, as well as the search for meaning, embodiment, intention, awareness, and more.

Time Stamps for the topics covered in this episode:
1:30 - What excites Aaron about his movement practice
3:30 - Using stories as a tool for teaching
7:07 - The difference between reductionism and whole nourishment, and finding the means to balance them effectively.
13:20 - The students story.
16:25 - Cultivating the ability to speak and to listen.
24:00 - The importance of structure.
30:43 - Psychosynthesis and the individuality of the student. Lead with listening.
35:15 - A well organized absence of information.
37:28 - Owning your learning process.
42:00 - Investing the ego into your community.
45:32 - The quest for meaning ← make into a bite
53:03 - Being and becoming ← make into a bite
56:35 - Taking aim in our lives and being claimed by stories.
1:01:20 - Keep your identity small
1:02:44 - How we practice everything. Filling your practice with broad range value and meaning.
1:08:16 - Freedom or responsibility. Chaos and order.
1:12:06 - The story of the serpent prince.

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-The EMP Team