Body & perception
Vision, attention, response and the moment an idea becomes physical.
Wisdom of the Body →Talks · conversations · source study
Studies
& Talks
Beyond the named practices, Allen has spent a lifetime following questions through myth, sacred place, perception, spiritual history and conversation with teachers, researchers and practitioners who carry specialised experience.
Open the field ↓
The wider field
Not a second curriculum. A record of what feeds the work.
Wisdom of the Body remains Allen’s central public practice. These studies show what he has read, tested and discussed around it.
Some strands became books or practices. Others remain talks, correspondence and open questions.
Three reading rooms
Body, conversation and cultural memory.
People & conversation
Exchanges with teachers, researchers and knowledge carriers.
Open the conversations ↓Myth, place & Western studies
Myth, sacred geography and Western spiritual and physical cultures.
Enter the talk archive ↓Watch Allen think aloud
Six entrances.
A historical lecture, a short reflection, an early montage, a teacher’s portrait, a research study and a conversation.
Myth and cultural memory · Atlanta archive talk.
A short study of perception, language and action.
An early montage across movement education, partner work and symbolic study.
Allen’s film portrait of his teacher: wrestling, yoga, osteopathy and ten years of study.
On W. E. Fairbairn — the close-combat pioneer whose research archive Allen preserves.
In conversation with the Daoist scholar and priest Michael Saso.
More films and archival recordings
Conversations
Knowledge also arrives through people.
Each conversation opens a distinct body of experience and research.
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Tim Geoghegan
Wrestling, yoga, osteopathy and a life in physical culture
Watch ↗02John Barnwell
Rudolf Steiner, Skythianos and the mysteries of the physical body
Watch ↗03Mark Olly
Archaeology, history and the stories carried by place
Watch ↗04Avril James Maynard
A conversation from Allen’s living network of teachers and researchers
Watch ↗Where the quieter strands live
Some studies need a smaller door.
Egyptian movement studies
The exercises Allen teaches remain with Yoga, where their physical use can be described clearly.
Go to Yoga →Chiron working archive
Myth, biography and astrology form a continuing research strand. Its future form is still taking shape.
View the working study →Continue through Allen’s work