I once believed that breathing was automatic. It is something we did without thinking about it.
Then came workouts with NK Bordy Philosophy. Nicole spent most of our time telling me to breathe, training me to breathe in ways that would effectively support the movements I was doing.
It seems unlikely that I was thinking about breathing in this childhood photo.
It also seems likely that some serious breathing was taking place to support this level of noise.
Photo: circa 1954/5, Grove City, PA
Walking.. Stretching. NK Body Philosophy. Gym in the Apartment.
Listen to the Lambs – The Howard University Chamber Choir
Take Me Home Country Roads – Israel Kamakawiwo’ole
Cure for Love – Bonnie Raitt
Mountain Walk East – Nomad
Letter to the Free – Common feat. Bilal
Pisagua 1973 – Los Miserables
Why Does My Heart Feel So Bad – Moby
I Am Easily Assimilated – Candide
Pressing On – John Doe
Mind Games – John Lennon
Green Grass and High Tides – The Outlaws
Rise – The Wakes
Door to Door – Credence Clearwater Revival
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Walking.. Stretching. NK Body Philosophy. Gym in the Apartment.
Freedom – Pharrell Williams
Two Lovers – Mary Wells
Tapestry – Carole King
Your Child – Mary J. Bilge
Latifah’s Had It up to Here – Queen Latifah
Black on Black II – Heart
La Bell de Bayou Teche – BeauSoleil
Emily – Elton John
For the Love of It All – Peter, Paul & Mary
Asi Fue – El Sueno Del Inka
In My Life – Judy Collins
Buskers – Smailovic & Sands
Hook – Blues Traveler
Gone – U2
When the Chips Are Down – Andre De Shields
A New York Notion – Bryan E. Miller
Two Hands Old – Bryan E. Miller
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Walking.. Stretching. NK Body Philosophy. Gym in the Apartment.
Happy Birthday – Stevie Wonder
By the Time I Get to Arizona – Public Enemy
One Vision – Queen
Take My Hand, Precious Lord – Mahalia Jackson
Proud to Be Black – Run DMC
One – India.Arie
Wake Up – Rage Against the Machine
Ballad of Martin Luther King – Pete Seeger, Brother Kirk & The Sesame Street Kids
Letter to the King – The Game, feat. Nas
Pride – U2
Letter to Dr. Martin Luther King – Sweet Honey in the Rock
Glory – Common & John Legend
Filed under Antiracism, Louisville, Music, playlist
Walking.. Stretching. NK Body Philosophy. Gym in the Apartment.
Remembering Clyde Bellecourt
A.I.M. Song – The American Indian Movement Singers
9 to 5 – Dolly Parton
Just Another Lonely Night – Earth, Wind & Fire
The Prayer – Celtic Woman
Bohemian Rhapsody – Queen
Babylon, O Sinner Man – Peter, Paul & Mary
La Vie En Rose – Edith Piaf
Lullabies – Yuna
Lookin’ for a Reason – Credence Clearwater Revival
Taxi – Harry Chapin
Paul and Norman – Terence Blanchard
Pie in the Sky – Ani DiFranco & Utah Phillips
Stand Back – The Allman Brothers Band
Simple Life – Nanci Griffith
Broken Crown – Mumford & Sons
Yankee Doodle – The Old Bethpage Brass Band
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Walking.. Stretching. NK Body Philosophy. Gym in the Apartment.
The Good Witch Glinda – Quincy Jones with Lena Horne
Dirty Low Down and Bad – Keb’ Mo’
Blood of the Sun – Mountain
Airplane – f(x)
Border Crossing – Aurora Celtic
Quelle Belle Vie – BeauSoleil
These Days – Nico
You Lost the Sweetest Boy – Mary Wells
Phoning Home – Come from Away
California Stars – Billy Bragg & Wilco
Get out the Map – Indigo Girls
Drop Me off in New Orleans – Kermit Ruffins
I Love You Too Much – Steve Earle & The Dukes
Brandy – Looking Glass
Grassfire – John Trudell
The List – John McCutcheon
Stand Tall – Rebecca Riots
Give Me Some Time – Dan Fogelberg
It’s Not Unusual – Tom Jones
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Walking.. Stretching. NK Body Philosophy. Gym in the Apartment
Motivation – Kelly Rowland, feat. Lil Wayne
Phatsha-Phatsha – Hugh Masekala
Armworth – Captain Beyond
He’s an Indian Cowboy in the Rodeo – Buffy Sainte-Marie
I Could Have Danced All Night – My Fair Lady
Crane – Pamyua
Polly Ann’s Hammer – Our Native Daughters
Beethoven: Romance #2 In F, Op. 50 – Veliana Dimova; Alvaro Cassuto: Nova Filarmonia Portuguesa
Cold Snow – Jonathan Edwards
Love Forty Down – Frank Turner
Pieces of a Story – The Last of the Mohicans
We Are Each Other’s Angels – David LaMotte
Part of the Family – Jim and Jean Strathdee
Put the Law on You – Natalie Merchant
Unforgettable – Roberta Flack
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Walking.. Stretching. NK Body Philosophy. Gym in the Apartment.
O, Fair New Mexico – Rick Pickren
Breath of Heaven/We Three Kings – Travis Cloer
We Three Kings – dc Talk
We Three Kings – The Rhos Orpheus Male Choir
We Three Kings – Charles T. Cozens
Saw You Never/We Three Kings – Folks Like Us
We Three Kings – Cumberland Gap Reunion
We Three Kings – The Irish Rovers
We Three Kings – The Roches
We Three Kings – Robert Mirabel
We Three Kings of Orient Are – The Philadelphia Orchestra
We Three Kings – Marion Meadows
We Three Kings – Rod Stewart, feat, Mary J. Bilge
We Three Kings – Michael Doucet
We Three Kings – Holiday Traditions
Three Elders – Red Nativity
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Walking. Germantown. Stretching. NK Body Philosophy. Gym in the Apartment.
Angels We Have Heard on High – Philadelphia Brass Ensemble
Hark! The Herald Angels Sing – Celtic Woman
O Come, O Come, Emmanuel – Pentatonix
Canticle of the Turning – Rory Cooney, Gary Daigle & Theresa Donohoo
Hark! The Herald Angels Sing – Natalie Cole
Silent Night – Sweet Honey in the Rock
Joy to the World – Willie Nelson
Little Drummer Boy – The Blind Boys of Alabama, feat. Michael Franti
Cry of a Tiny Babe – Bruce Cockburn
Christmas in the Trenches – John McCutcheon
Christmas Must Be Tonight – The Band
The Bushes of Jerusalem – Tommy Sands
The Rebel Jesus – The Chieftains & Jackson Browne
Fairytale of New York – The Pogues
I Believe in Father Christmas – Emerson, Lake & Palmer
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Walking. Stretching. NK Body Philosophy. North East, Maryland.
Christmas 2 Creation – Warren Cooper
Silent Night – Sarah McLachlan
Serenity’s Child – Red Nativity
O Come All Ye Faithful – Amy Grant
O Little Town of Bethlehem – Celtic Woman
O Holy Night – Nancy Wilson
The Huron Carole – Tom Jackson
Good Christian Men Rejoice – Celtic Collection
Angels We Have Heard on High – Indigo Girls
Joy to the World – BeBe & CeCe Winans
Jesu, Joy of Man’s Desiring – Eileen Ivers
Joyeux Noel – New York Twoubadou
Go Tell It on the Mountain – Pentatonix
Angels We Have Heard on High – Folks Like Us
Happy Christmas – Angelique Kidjo
I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day – Harry Belafonte
All the Stars – The Wailin’ Jennys
Along the Graybeard Trail 