exuberant animals

at play
philosophy and practice of natural fitness

change your body, change the world

"Know, first, who you are; and

then adorn yourself accordingly."
Epictetus

I see that
everything in nature
arises from the
power of free play
sloshing against the
power of limits.
Stephen
Nachmanovitch
Free Play:
Improvisation in Life
and Art

"Man is most nearly

himself when he
achieves the
seriousness of a
child at play."
Herodotus, Greek
historian

"Life begets life. Energy creates energy.

It is by spending oneself that one
becomes rich."
Sarah Bernhardt

"Creators ultimately don't care about genres or

techniques or disciplines except as these things can
be used as instruments of vision."
John Briggs

"Pleasure is power."
Kay Redfield Jamison
Exuberance

There is more wisdom in your body

than in your deepest philosophy.
Nietzsche:

Coordination is the quality

which enables the individual
to integrate all the powers
and capabilities of his whole
organism into an effective
doing of an act.
Bruce Lee

"Each day, and the living of it, has to be a

conscious creation in which discipline and
order are relieved with some play and pure
foolishness."
May Sarton

photo courtesy Stuart Brown MD, National Institute for Play

"Play is the exultation of the possible."

Martin Buber

"The Universe is constituted to maximize play. The best games are not
those in which all goes smoothly to conclusion, but those in which the
outcome is always in doubt. The geometry of life is designed to keep us on
the crux between certainty and uncertainty, order and chaos."
George Leonard

"Genius is childhood
recalled at will."
Charles Baudelaire

"The supreme accomplishment is to

blur the line between work and play."
Arnold Toynbee

Concentration is the secret of strength.

R.W. Emerson

There is a beast in man that should be exercised, not exorcised.

A.S. LaVey

We play because we have an exuberance of spirits and energy,

but we are also exuberant because we play.
Kay Redfield Jamison

wild dogs: Kruger National Park, South Africa

"A creature that once knows the

pleasure of play will derive
satisfaction from it even when
youth is gone."
Karl Groos
The Play of Animals

"We are all sculptors and painters, and our material

is our own flesh and blood and bones."
Henry David Thoreau

"I played with an idea, and grew willful; tossed it into the air;
transformed it; let it escape and recaptured it; made it
iridescent with fancy, and winged it with paradox."
Oscar Wilde

Animals that play together

tend to stay together.
Mark Bekhoff

Whatever you can do, or think you can, begin it.

Boldness has power, and genius,and magic in it.
Goethe

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Produced by the primal scholar with special thanks to

Lauren Muney, Kwame Brown, Sebastien Alary and the
Barefoot Sensei.
For more information, contact Frank Forencich at
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In partnership with
The National Institute for Play