NO OF PAGES: 72 SIZE: 165 x 235 mm ISSN: 2737-7539
Issue 07, Felt Physicality, shares impressions of inhabiting, using, experiencing and negotiating living inside and with our bodies.
For this issue, the first one that comes within our new format, we show some perspectives on the body as our homes. Felt Physicality explores some facets of the internal experience of, and intellectual reaction to, being in a body, and how that relates to the art & practice of hand balance.
THE MENSTRUAL CYCLE – INSIGHTS AND POTENTIAL FOR TRAINING
Johanna Küster shares some insights into her thesis, in which she investigates the menstrual cycle as a feature that, if experienced consciously, enables new understandings of training and the capacities, sensibilities and needs of the body in different times of the month.
HAND PLACEMENT
The Handstand Factory team discusses hand placement in handstand training, reflecting on different ways to grip the floor as we balance, whether there can be any right or wrong way to do it, and how the different positions relate to biomechanics and stability upside down.
TOMORROW I WILL BE BETTER AND EAT
Anonymous tells about her time in circus school as a hand balancer, trapped in anorexia nervosa, through a personal and medical questioning of this eating disorder as a complex psychiatric phenomenon that affects people in very different but same ways.
HALLUCIGENIA FESTIVAL JAPAN
Our editor Meret Meier speaks with Hisashi Watanabe and Sakurako Gibbo, organisers of the Hallucigenia Handstand Festival, the first hand balance event in Japan, talking about parallels of handstands and zen meditation, inspiration in training and handstands in their country.
