To a global, virtual, free, open, {future degree- & credit-granting}, multilingual University & School for the developing world and everyone, as well as loving bliss ~ scottmacleod.com
Dear Yoga friends, and family in their 80s and 90s' ~ Dick (Robb MD, possibly posthumously, also a professor in Harvard Medical School), Yogi Ishvara (aka Bob Hartley, founder of Harbin Hot Springs since 1972 & Heart Consciousness Church since 1975, and Harvard alum), Unitarians' Chris Michaels and Ma/Janie, and cousins' Stacy & Mark - Happy Birthday, Mark (Briscoe, who went to Quaker George School in Philadelphia )! - and his uncle Alden (Briscoe - who also went to Quaker George School in Philadelphia before Harvard college), ~ Quakertarian & Veterinarian & cousin Annie (Brown in NE Oregon), George (Church) and Maitreyi (Mazumdar MD - both professors in Harvard Medical School too), Peter (Norvig, Stanford AI), Marlynn Wei MD JD (co-author of "The Harvard Medical School Guide to Yoga: 8 Weeks to Strength, Awareness, and Flexibility"), Doortje (Van Kooten), Pin/Sid Mazumdar HHS, Ed Smyth MD, All,
Yoga greetings ... and regarding restorative Yoga explorations at around 8 am Pacific Time on Saturday May 9, 2026, and potentially on Sunday May 10 too, all together independently... What 3 or so restorative Yoga poses could be done both on terra firma and in the Harbin Warm Pool at Harbin Hot Springs in northern California for the most extraordinary repeatable ONENESS experiences (due to the de facto relaxation response of the warm waters I posit)? And could this oneness experience be construed as samadi in the 8 limbs of Yoga, as the 8th limb? Read on ...
(Looked up Harbin Hot Springs' Restorative Yoga movements free video Youtube ... but didn't find anything, yet maybe we could make some videos of such Yoga movement explorations ... )
And as we may live to 150 years of age and well beyond ... and with Yoga movements' help too -
Asked Gemini -
Please summarize this EXCEPTIONAL George Church video interview by M Goes The Distance, & with regard to yoga & science, as in 8 limbs of Yoga & how yoga too can help humans live to 150 years old & well beyond & with aging reversal too
Human Gene Editing Has Begun | George Church (April 9, 2026)
EXCEPTIONAL: How to add now these processes -https://youtu.be/uyuAEncwk98 to #RealisticVirtualEarth #ForGenes #ForAgingReversal #ForExtremeLongevity & to populate #GStreetView w #GTimeSlider &@ #GCellView & #GMoleculeView levels & our #AvatarAgentElectronicHealthRecords to #AccelerateBio?
EXCEPTIONAL: How to add now these processes -https://youtu.be/uyuAEncwk98 to #RealisticVirtualEarth #ForGenes #ForAgingReversal #ForExtremeLongevity & to POPULATE #GStreetView w #GTimeSlider &@ #GCellView & #GMoleculeView levels & #AvatarAgentElectronicHealthRecords to #AccelerateBio?
With so much genetics and science to learn and add to a #Realistic Virtual Earth For Aging Reversal too
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What are 3 or so restorative exploratory Chair Yoga poses we can do on Saturday on terra firma and hypothetically in the Harbin Warm Pool, say from the bench at the end of Harbin Warm Pool near the outer stairs, or BETTER from Home Bathtub on Saturday already, AND with time in a #RealsiticVirtualHarbin Hot springs (in digital glasses or a multimedia room / multimedia bathroom, with smartscreen tv panels on all sides of a room) ?
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Chair pose works (and for mediation, or silent Quaker Meeting meditation, corporate with other people often but not always )
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Kneeling pose works too on this Harbin Warm Pose 'bench'
(or sitting in kneeling pose at home with one's buttocks on a block)
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And full lotus pose too, or Padmasana, where the crossed legs become the roots of the lotus pose helping one to stay settled on the Harbin Warm Pool bench in the warm waters ...
(Half Lotus , or easy cross legged pose on terra firma as intermediary steps to full lotus?)
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WHY poses or asana both on terra firma and in the Harbin warm pool on its bench, or potentially in one's home bath tub, (when we can figure out a way to keep the water at 95 F- 98 F at home ... or in a continuing care centre for some of us which might have a warm pool with thermostat too for 95-98 Fahrenheit water .. body temperature) ?
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For meditation, or Dhyana, in 8 limbs of Yoga, which is the 7th limb of Yoga,
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and for concentration or Dharana, the 6th limb of Yoga ... and
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to riff in one's inner body, with the other limbs of Yoga too ...
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Still seeking here to move forward the WUaS Yoga Hall and WUaS Academic Medical Center into 670 Ridgecrest Rd, Canyon 94516 and for Zoom call Yoga Halls, and then in a #RealisticVirtualEarth a #RealisticVirtualHarbin, and potentially in digital glasses or a WUaS Multimedia Room too ... on Saturdays at around 8am Pacific Time ... for feedback & communication circles, and questions and replies, and further restorative Yoga movement explorations all together and in community too ... so stay tuned ... I think this is in the works ...
Thoughts, questions, suggestions?
Warm regards, Yogically, Namaste,
Scott
Yoga PS
Here are last week's regenerative Yoga movement + explorations -
Friday, May 1, 2026 Nelumbo nucifera (lotus flower fruit): Restorative Yoga class on Saturdays (and as we may live to 150 and well beyond:)? ...
How best in emerging #PhysicalDigital #RealisticVirtualHarbin fr #HomeBathtub to create the #AreYouExperienced #HarbinExperience anew https://www.iheart.com/artist/jimi-hendrix-2359/songs/are-you-experienced-5900614/ (& #HarbinThinking-wise with '#OneNess' #Ishvara #BobHartley) as #HarbinNow #LivingTheFuture from ~'72 fwd w @HarbinBook ?
How best in emerging #PhysicalDigital #RealisticVirtualHarbin fr #HomeBathtub to create the #AreYouExperienced #HarbinExperience anew https://www.iheart.com/artist/jimi-hendrix-2359/songs/are-you-experienced-5900614/ (& #HarbinThinking-wise with '#OneNess' #Ishvara #BobHartley) as #HarbinNow #LivingTheFuture fr ~'72 fwd w @HarbinBook ?
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#ToyotaSienna Minivans are technically 16 ft long (~16 ft 11 in)
A 16 ft camping #WUaSvan w #showerWetBath that gets 35 mpg & tows 3500 lbs? Plumbed as #ToyotaMotorHome #ToiletShowerModule #ToyotaShowerUnit ? For @WUaSPress @WorldUnivAndSch #WUaSFacultyHomes #WUaSStudentHomes?
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(https://www.iheart.com/artist/jimi-hendrix-2359/) Folks started talking about the #HarbinExperience in around 2005 since founder #Ishvara (#BobHartley) played down talking/ thinking about this non #HarbinNow idea fr ~ 1972 fwd @HarbinBook ~
Folks started talking about the #HarbinExperience newly in around 2005 - since founder #Ishvara (#BobHartley) may have played down talking/ thinking about this idea from ~ 1972 fwd
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16 ft camping van w shower wet bath ? -
#ToyotaSienna Minivans are technically 16 ft long (~16 ft 11 in)
A 16 ft camping #WUaSvan w #showerWetBath that gets 35 mpg & tows 3500 lbs? Plumbed as #ToyotaMotorHome #ToiletShowerModule #ToyotaShowerUnit ?
#ToyotaSienna Minivans are technically 16 ft long (~16 ft 11 in)
A 16 ft camping #WUaSvan w #showerWetBath that gets 35 mpg & tows 3500 lbs? Plumbed as #ToyotaMotorHome #ToiletShowerModule #ToyotaShowerUnit ? For @WUaSPress @WorldUnivAndSch #WUaSFacultyHomes #WUaSStudentHomes?
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Scottish Small Piping - bagpiping * * create Lego Mindstorms' robots as Scottish drummers playing such rhythms - almost as prompts for one's own music-making * * Playing with quasi-metronomes aka Scottish drumming can lead to new 'flow' experiences (and here's one definition - http://scottmacleod.com/EudaimoniaFlow.htm).
Hi Taylor,
In lieu of a metronome, I just looked for and found a Scottish drumming track for 4/4 marches:
Perhaps we can play around a bit experimentally with these new approaches to learning with 'quasi-metronomes.' These (Scottish drumming rhythms) are complex, and interesting, and I found it helpful first just to sing the main note from a 2/4 March or a 6/8 March, beat my left and right feet as if marching too, and also tap my hand to get the pulse (and not playing a tune with on the Scottish Small Pipes).
Brainstorming-wise, and newly, it might be fun to create Lego Mindstorms' robots as Scottish drummers playing such rhythms - almost as prompts for one's own music-making - and then, out of the box, even to code such hypothetically Mindstorms' robots to move from this drumming into Grateful Dead drumming (as prompts too), Mickey Hart and Bill Kreutzman, workable with piping music. (I'm only making occasional robots with the simpler Lego Robotics' kit We Do 2.0, so this thinking is currently in the envisioning phase :).
Haven't yet been able to find strathspey and reel 'metronomic' Scottish drumming yet, and re this evening's
Would you like to explore playing this "Green Hills Of Tyrol" tune from the Green Tutor (with your practice chanter, since someone is playing with him on practice chanter, and your SSP chanter is in A) with quasi-metronome, Gordon Bell? :)
(I don't know if you or April might like to learn to code with the drag and drop visual Scratch programming language out of MIT Media Lab / Harvard HGSE beginning 7/6 -
— #CreativeComputing (@ScratchEdTeam) July 2, 2020
https://twitter.com/ScratchEdTeam/status/1278643603678642177?s=20 - with a new coding prompt each day, but I thought I'd let you know about this. I can see 'new' metronome beats, and particularly Scottish drumming rhythms as quasi-metronomes - as being kinds of 'prompts' to riff or experiment with expressively even). Am exploring this idea of musical prompts re quasi-metronomes.
For upcoming "Honey in the Bag" album, I experimentally could even put on headphones when playing 2 sets of 2 6/8s with
"One-ing" while playing Scottish small pipes with the 'complexity' of Scottish drumming rhythms and for expressive-ness is an art itself. ... interesting learning curve (and am thinking of Stuart Liddell's piping as inspiration in these regards).
I'm not sure if this is great drummer Stephen McWhirter at around the 1:20 or the 2 minute mark -
The Ascension of Inveraray & District Pipe Band - 2004-2013
There's a lot of rock and roll in this Gordon Duncan in video playing his "Thunderstruck" - and with both the tune (riffing with AC / DC) and what follows here, he's doing something so new and creative in bagpiping, and at an amazing tempo ... rock start on bagpipe-guitar in a kilt and Prince Charles doublet in Scotland at the Piping Centre in Glasgow ... what is going on here? Go figure :)
Exploring COMING UNGLUED is something hippies seemed to gravitate toward - amusingly :) (These days, Ali Hutton's piping is deeply inspired by Gordon Duncan's :)
It's interesting how the guitar in that second link almost mimics the beat of the highland drums.
Once I checked myself and put my prejudice against new agey music aside, the low whistle counterpart was actually pretty neat too. I wouldn't think such a quiet mellow instrument would pair well with the phiob mhor. Great dotted notes and birls on the part of the piper there too.
I played around a bit with that recording of Green Hills. Getting an ear for highland drumming might take some practice; the syncopated beats can make one a bit unsure if they're keeping time correctly.
There's gotta be a market out there for this type of irregular metronome. I'm not much of a coder but I'll check that link out at some point.
Thanks for sending these my way.
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Taylor,
Appreciating your language and insights for some of these videos and quasi metronomes. It took me about 3 goes to find, and play with, the beat with the last 6/8 march video played by drum corp
from Scotland. (They drum faster than I usually play lovely swinging 6/8 marches - which faster tempo, played well, I think would add to a kind of elation for the listener; explore downloading BPM Tap, or BPM Counter etc., and in addition to 'marching' with your left and right feet, singing the pulse notes in each bar, try tapping your finger/hand and with one of these Apps and see what the bpm of Green Hills of Tyrol is, and compare with Bruce Wright's GHB tempos for 3/4 marches - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/02/western-honey-bee-re-my-upcoming-honey.html). A kind of metronomic beat is implicit in all these Scottish drum videos (re the regular tick idea of a metronome). Appreciating, too, Ali's whistle (not a sound I always gravitate toward) as alto voice, and touching on both ceol beag (Gordon Duncan tune played by Ross) and ceol mor (Ali Hutton playing part of an urlar, or ground, from a piobaireachd) too.
Here's some innovative not quasi-metronomic Scottish(-Australian too) drumming to riff with:
Scottish Drumming - Tyler Fry and James Laughlin playing a pipe band drum solo - improvisation!
But with the syncopation, and the other Scottish drumming rhythmic aspects, of Gordon Bell's Green Hills of Tyrol, can one further 'one' with the dot-cuts, or tachums (a word from canntaireachd), between the notes (and with 16th notes, and 32nd notes +) ? ... Am exploring ~ and Stuart Liddell is an inspiration, but am also seeking to come unglued, and innovate anew, finding my own sound, with Gordon Duncan as inspiration.
Thee syncopated Scottish drummers, quasi-metronomes all, all seem to be marketing themselves quite well on the web! ~ :)
https://stevenmcwhirter.com/ (I haven't checked out the practicing books here eg "Practice strategies that cause musical improvement" but they look interesting)
Tyler Fry
James Laughlin
Appreciating your rhythm guitar emails - re creative idea-sharing in learning Scottish small pipes!
Might this online singing opportunity interest you or April - https://www.co-vo.com/original - on Mondays and Wednesdays from 6-6:30. Julia Nielsen went to Stanford for her BA in Music, of which I am appreciative (I heard about this from a UU choir email list, having sung in the UUCPA 2-3 years ago). Will send you the email.
Scott's an anthropologist of #PhysicalDigital Harbin Hot Springs' Heart Consciousness Church @HarbinBook (on #TwitterX), as ethnographic field site - https://goo.gl/maps/7gSsSTweRCBo9gf87 - who is currently writing "Society, Info Tech & the Global Univ", who also finds fascinating the internet, ideas, poetry, sociology, art, science, genetics of aging reversal & extreme longevity drug therapies emerging (with FDA approval), philosophy, history, music, love and life ~ as well as the anthropology of info tech & counterculture :) - scottmacleod.com; Am also the president or head of, and professor at, best STEAM CC OCW wiki World Univ & Sch & Academic @WUaSPress, planned in 7,159 living languages with machine translation, (aka the WUaS Corp) planning free online degrees in ~200 countries & in their main languages, where you can #WikiTeach, or #WikiLearn, or #WikiCreate - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Subjects (See too "Yoga Notations": http://www.scottmacleod.com/yoganotations.html). Identity-wise, a Nontheist f/Friendly Quaker - a NtF or NtQ - with Unitarian Universalist sympathies as well, and a player of Scottish bagpipes, & an academic