Solarpunk Strength Syndicate

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Solarpunk Strength Syndicate rises beneath the glare of corporate towers, a collective resistance forged from the fire of anarchic spirit and the pursuit of personal sovereignty.

In a world where fitness apps and digital trainers seek only to monetize our sweat, we offer a true alternative: a decentralized workout community that belongs to no corporation, only to the people.

Every workout is crafted by the faceless power of open AI, to be freely shared and rooted in solarpunk ideals of sustainability, resilience, and independence.

Here, the machines do not bind us; they are our tools, wielded collectively to build our strength and defy the oppression of technological gatekeepers.

(Ok, so actually I was just bored with my workout so now I'm gonna to workout every single day with ChatGPT telling me what to do. It'll be fun! And miserable!)

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Reconciling Yoga and a ‘hard’ scientific worldview (self.solarpunkstrength)

submitted 2 weeks ago by meyotch to c/solarpunkstrength

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I just had a thought about my practice. I realize that being such a aficionado of yoga may conflict with my usual stance that is very ‘hard’ scientific and definitely materialistic.

Maybe that’s what I love about yoga. It is a very solid framework that can be approached from so many different angles.

For instance, for many years, I would just kind of tune out when instructors would talk about the subtle body. However, over the years as my awareness has grown, I realize that they are talking about a real thing.

It is not that there is an actual physical, subtle body, but as your awareness grows of your own body, your own perception of your body changes significantly with practice. You learn to experience what was always there, it iust didn’t make it through the perceptual filters we all have.

I have started to think of the loosey goosey aspects of yoga as ‘woo woo that works’. The benefits are real and measurable (observation), but the mechanisms are too complex for us to fully understand yet. Yoga is a theoretical framework that clearly can bring those benefits, but the language is often metaphorical and poetic.

This is how I remind myself of the limitations of science and leave myself open to deeper understanding. Being anything at all is a rather strange experience, isn’t it.

I would love to hear different perspectives from practitioners who subscribe generally to a scientific world view.

How do you find balance between hard empiricism and the sometimes ‘sponge-y’ language of of yoga?

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