Camilla Maling
Embodiment Inquisitor
Embodied Research, Education & Adventure.
There’s undeniable intelligence in our cells. We are the field.
movement | yoga | therapeutics | (sound) | blog
Hello & welcome to both my personal blog and The Yoga Lab Blog. You are currently in Camilla’s website nested in The Yoga Lab site – just so you know where you are.
Curiouser & Curiouser
This is a blog about all things related to movement & The Wellness Industry.
Here you will find written and spoken word and dallies in sound, as before in our previous blog – Aural US.
From time to time enjoy the musings of guest bloggers from The Yoga Lab.
May your curiosity be both sparked & satisfied!
If you’re wondering, you can pick up the trail of our blog in it’s previous incarnation Aural Us (with a touch of text) as you track back through our posts below.
Mesoderm
Mesoderm PLAY AUDIO HERE A spoken word piece by Camilla Maling, March 2014 I recently participated in a professional development Body-Mind Centering retreat with Alice Cummins, its focus – Embryology. This deeply profound, rich and intensive training teased stories from my cells that reached way back. Finding words for our felt experience is a challenge – during this week, they slipped from my pores. I am sharing some of this writing with you. (1’29”...
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Molecules PLAY AUDIO HERE An extract from… In The Shadow Of The Moon, a documentary film This astronaut beautifully articulates what is an extraordinary metaphor for living – our very own physiology intimately integrated into our environment. As an Embodiment Inquisitor, I am on a quest for experiences & examples of our interconnectedness, details otherwise missed, patterns hidden beneath the seeming chaos. Certainly these men had an insight unlike any other. (0’52” – In The Shadow Of The...
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An Ode PLAY AUDIO HERE To consider my moving self is a profoundly spiritual endeavour. I believe our moving self is key to our experience and understanding of our self, our environment and our place it in. I built this little composition shortly after returning from India, new to Melbourne and newly pregnant with my daughter. I was experiencing movement in all it’s glory. (2’30” – copyright of Camilla...
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Melodic Flesh To kick off… what better way than to call on a work with a name like Melodic Flesh! I made & performed this work in London back in 2006. It was a solo improvisation in dance and voice to an original sound score. This is a compiled soundbite from the sound score. PLAY AUDIO HERE We sit, we stand, we walk and what else…? There are interlacing patterns in every given moment, dive in and capture with all your senses – venture into the music box. This short score is part of a larger investigation into the...
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