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Curious to Explore

Moving Puzzles values curiosity and exploring our world with freedom of action and thinking beyond traditional boundaries.

Explore unexpected paths.
Discover novel relationships.
Draw maps of your landscape.
Create games for yourself.
Reinvent stale thinking.
Break free of unwritten rules.
Connect deeply.

Book

Wellbeing: a Moving Puzzle

According to the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare, Wellbeing is "Physical, mental and social and is affected by an individual’s perceptions, emotions and behaviour as well as their ease of movement and levels of any discomfort" [emphasis added]. They add, Mental health is "fundamental to the wellbeing of individuals, their families and the community as a whole. Wellbeing can be measured by self-assessed health status and the prevalence of psychological distress in the population."

Wellbeing seems to involve bodies, minds, relationships and especially discomfort and stress.

Complex indeed!

Embodied Tools: Play and Respond

Philosophy alone is meaningless without practical tools. We must be able to test our philosophy in action and motion, in the real world. This means we need practical tools to address our Wellbeing:
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Embodied Puzzles: developing perceptual skills and emotional-regulation.
Thinking Puzzles: including strategy, planning and memory.
Partner Puzzles: with diverse goals, constraints, roles and partners.

These tools must (1) be interconnected; and (2) change with us.
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How will these tools reduce our discomfort and stress? This surface-level question could be deeper: how do we better respond to discomfort and stress? Moving Puzzles helps us understand your habitual responses and help you develop adaptive tools to manage your energy, for we cannot avoid the puzzles of life.

‍Practice Pieces

Joints ART - controlled study and sensitivity of our body states. Practical tools to reset your nervous system every day, anywhere, anytime.
Coordination - 4D body puzzles of learning and memory. Deeper vocabulary of movement qualities for performance and health.
Improvisation - techniques of self-surprise and spontaneity. Dancing tasks for rehabilitation and self-expression.
Partner Games - playful constraints that develop our strategic variability. Creative options for relating to people in different situations.
Object Interaction - creative play with tools and materials. Childlike curiosity that sees novelty and difference in everything, meanwhile you become more adaptive.
FlowWeaves - principles of Flow, applied to urban and natural movement. Learn to recycle energy whilst passing over obstacles with ease. Move like a human animal.

FUN and SILLY we all need

Embrace LIFE as a Moving Puzzle

‍MOVE WITH CURIOSITY is about playing with our physical bodies, meanwhile our minds are engaging in CREATIVE PUZZLES. Learn more about social games and how we build CONNECTION and COURAGE.

OFFERINGS

Mindful Movement for wellbeing via Inspire By FM.
Playful Athleticism via FlowWeaves (Parkour).

PRACTICE PIECES

Indra

"Dean was excellent to work with. He provided the right balance between giving you space to play and explore and setting structure and direction so you could learn optimally. I had so much fun in his sessions and learned much about movement and my body and mindset. You could tell that Dean was knowledgeable and super passionate about his practice. I highly recommend working with him if you get a chance."

Movement Residency - Alpha Gym

Sue

"I have been working with Dean’s Moving Puzzles group (twice a week) for almost a year and attended several of his workshops as well. Due to his thoughtful preparation there is always learning, some hard work and above all fun with other like minded people of range of ages and abilities. Dean makes everyone feel welcome and builds confidence and a great cohesiveness within the group as we play and challenge each other. I would recommend Moving Puzzles for anyone interested in movement and wants to think about it in a completely different way."

~ Group MOVE Class member

Events

Inspire by FM Retreat

Description

Sharp Minds Post-Retirement

How can we grow young in our minds through our bodies?

Strictness becomes Playfulness

How do we bridge the worlds of individual strictness and playful partnering?

Restorative Movement: Walking with Ease

Restorative workshop that looks at rhythm, coordination, controlled joint articulation and ground work

Exploration of concept of Pendulum

An investigation of swinging pendulums in our bodies and interactions

Exploration of concept of Infinity

Infinity is a shape and concept that goes deeper than mathematics?

Embodiment of Ripples

Ripples of waves, bodies and relations are ripe for physical exploration?

Exploration of Playful Touch

Touch is the ultimate human communication, how can have more fun playing in a safe way?

Moving beyond Gymnastics

How can physical gymnastics extend into interactions, objects and our environment?

Contact us

Are you feeling curious?

dean@movingpuzzles.com.au

0403 831 019

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