Excerpted From Free Play: Improvisation in Live and Art, by Stephen Nachmanovitch

Play is always a matter of context. It is not what we do, but how we do it. 

Excerpted from Emilie Conrad’s Life on Land

We are not separate from the fluid that spirals us as embryos. We are that spiraled fluid. Pulsating waves create the ocean behind all human activities

Excerpts from Dr. Milton Trager’s Trager Mentastics: Movement as a Way to Agelessness

All movements on the earth—waters, winds or living creatures—follow the undulating curvature of a wave. Sound and light exist as waves with specific frequency and length.

Excerpted from Jack Liskin’s Moving Medicine: The Life and Work of Milton Trager, M.D.

In Manhattan, Trager practitioner Roger Tolle had been giving sessions almost weekly to Marge Rivingston, a noted voice teacher whose students have included singer Linda Ronstadt and actors Meryl Streep and Kevin Kline, when she asked him to co-teach a class for her students. He describes his first day teaching.

Excerpted from Deane Juhan’s Job’s Body

As we have previously remarked, one of the most impressive features of connective tissue, the quality that makes it so widely useful as a structuring agent, is its ability to behave like a liquid crystal. It can be watery, elastic, wiry, or solid, depending upon local functions and stresses.

Excerpted from Jack Liskin’s Moving Medicine: The Life and Work of Milton Trager, M.D.

Again today, there is a child with cerebral palsy, a nine-year-old boy with beautifully tender and intelligent eyes, who uses leg braces, a walker, or a wheelchair to get around. Every move he makes, every word he uses, builds the child's trust and reinforces softness in his spastic muscles. Milton cannot impart this skill directly to students; it has grown out of long years of experience with children.