I follow regularly her Youtube channel, with interesting news from the world of physics and science in general. Science news from Oct 12^th 2022 you can watch here; this is when I heard for the first time about renewable energy from dancing!

While searching for SWG3 company dr Hossenfelder mentioned in the her video and presents it as the first one to use dance as renewable source of energy, I found news on this web site.

Glasgow venue SWG3 has begun generating its own renewable energy from the body heat on its dancefloor.

According to the owners, this system, known as Bodyheat, will allow them to completely disconnect the venue’s gas boilers, cutting about 70 tonnes of CO2 emissions a year. The Bodyheat system took three years to install, at a cost of £600,000. The project was supported by the Scottish government and largely subsidised through a series of grants. However, the savings on energy bills will make the investment recoverable in about five years, depending on costs (Source: Glasgow venue starts generating power from fans dancing (nme.com).

The system was designed by geothermal energy consultancy TownRock Energy.

Here you can listen to 6 minutes interview with Andrew Fleming-Brown, Managing Director of the arts venue SWG3 to learn more about the project and how system actually works.

According to this web site, one night out dancing is enough for watching 125 days of TV and do 75 loads of laundry!

Upon further search, I find that this is not a novelty as presented by Dr. Hossenfelder in her video; namely, there is an example of smart tiles of the British company Pavegen, which ten years ago designed a floor covering that converts the kinetic energy generated by walking into electrical energy. Energy can be generated from footsteps as people walk on them. (Source: Drveni podovi koji generišu električnu energiju – Gradjevinarstvo.rs). They are used on dance floors, on football stadiums and athletic halls, but also in some big cities like London and Washington.

Sources:

Sabine Hossenfelder – Wikipedia

Sabine Hossenfelder – YouTube

What is spooky action at a distance? Unidentified Aerial Phenomena in Ukraine, and more – YouTube

Glasgow venue starts generating power from fans dancing (nme.com)

BODYHEAT – a world first! | TownRock Energy

How could body heat slash CO2 emissions of a Glasgow nightclub? – YouTube

Dance Yrself Green: can clubbing generate renewable energy? | DJMag.com

Drveni podovi koji generišu električnu energiju – Gradjevinarstvo.rs

Photo: https://djmag.com/

Članak Energy from the dance floor se pojavljuje prvo na Ples & Grad.

Carlos Castaneda claimed similarly, and you can read more about that in his book “Magical Movements (The Wisdom of the Shamans of Ancient Mexico in Practice)”.

In that book, Castaneda says: “Don Juan speculated that the movements that the bodies of these shamans unintentionally performed in a state of heightened consciousness were in fact a kind of hidden heritage of humanity, something that was preserved and revealed only to those who were looking for it. He described these shamans as divers who, unknowingly, surfaced that legacy. He said that these wizards began to carefully connect the movements they remembered. Their effort paid off. They were able to connect movements that were previously considered automatic reactions of the body in a state of heightened consciousness. Encouraged by such success, they then connected hundreds of movements that they performed without ever trying to classify them into some understandable composition. They believed that in a state of heightened consciousness, these movements occur spontaneously and that some force controls their effect without the interference of their will. ”

Don Juan explained that we all have “belonging” energy, which we cannot change. Since we cannot increase our associated energy, the only possibility open to the wizards of ancient Mexico was conversion of that energy. For them, the conversion process began with magical movements and their effect on the physical body.

Stress accumulates in our bodies, which then “closes” and “blocks” the energy body we have around us. The only way to get rid of that stress and relieve, “cleanse” and “open” the energy field is by performing movements.

I immediately went to YouTube to see if there were any recordings of magic movements being performed. I found a warning that it is not thai-chi, or anything like that, it is not an exercise, those are: magical movements!

What I saw reminded me of thai-chi, then the movements during skiing, and of course it reminded me a lot of the elements of different dances.

And as we know, we who are not shamans 😉, all these movements really make us feel much better. Ask people who ski, everyone enjoys it! Why do our energy increase, we feel better, relieved of stress and somehow free…

Movements… Magic…

Dance and enjoy your Healing Dance World!

Članak Magical movements se pojavljuje prvo na Ples & Grad.

What you can not discover in your body,
you will not be able to discover anywhere else in the world…

For several years, one of the most wanted topics in the trainings I used to deliver was “Time Management”. Then they started talking about how time can not be managed. You can only manage yourself in the construction of the human mind, called time…

And then in 2001, two Harvard professors, Jim Loehr and Tony Schwartz, wrote an excellent article “Corporate Athlets” in which they tried to draw a parallel between the preparation and “work” of top athletes and managers and leaders in business.

In the article, the authors describe something they called the “Pyramid of Performance”. It looks like there is something at the bottom that they called the “Physical Capacity”, on the next level there is “Emotional Capacity”, then the “Mental Capacity” and at the top of the pyramid is the “Spiritual Capacity”.

The paper discusses that one should not think about time management (nor oneself at that time), but that it is actually necessary to manage energy. On all four levels defined in the pyramid. A healthy body is the basis for healthy emotions, it is the basis for a healthy mind, and it is all the basis for a healthy spirit (In a healthy body, a healthy spirit, isn’t it?).

I think that dance/movement is the most elegant and pleasant way to strengthen the energy of the body that is the basis of everything and to “connect” all parts of the pyramid.

The importance of dance for development, spiritual, was written long ago, long before the Harvard Business Review 😊 My favorite author on that topic was certainly George Gurdjieff. His dances, movements, represent work on self-knowledge.

Gurdjieff said that there is knowledge in movements that is passed from generation to generation: movements can represent a cosmic truth that the observer can understand. These movements can lead to another level of understanding of ourselves and the world around us.

On that path to the awakening of the soul, in these dances, we work on each level of the mentioned pyramid, in a connected way.

Sources:

https://hbr.org/2001/01/the-making-of-a-corporate-athlete

http://www.gurdjieff.si/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Gurdjieff

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gurdjieff_movements

Članak Why is movement so important to us? se pojavljuje prvo na Ples & Grad.