Jellyfish Inbound

Hello all!

While I did not precisely succeed in my goal of having additional material up for this week, I did manage to spend some hours editing the first four Jellyfish recordings. These are a series of audio recordings Bob created to walk beginners through what he called the “Jellyfish Exercise”.

This is a set of breathing and interoception exercises he developed over the last four or five years. The became a very important practice for him, a way of connecting with the act of being alive and embodied in the world. We sometimes opened practice sessions with them (not often enough, in my opinion), or took breaks using them.

These recordings were really only intended to be first drafts, just practice at the process of recording exercises, but they are what I currently have, and they are honestly quite solid. Once I figure out the best way to host them, I will be posting them here.

I know that he developed much more than what I have as recordings; there was at least an additional exercise focused on the chest, one focused on the base of the skull, and then a progression to doing the practice standing. However, I currently am not sure if written or recorded versions of those exercises exist. Time will perhaps tell.