A conversation with Dave Gardner, who as you'll hear, is one of those people one could enter into endless conversations with. We explore ways of moving and being that keep us engaged in the endless conversation with life.

As well as:

- The inspiration behind Dave's Original Condition offerings

- The yoga/mixed martial arts/alternative movement journeys and teachers along the way

- Intorducing the Budokon practice (mixed movement art practice) to SA  

- Creative process, music, listening & the suspended meditative state

- Living Zen and cultivating creativity

- Mini history on the origins of Zen

- Tapping into creative nature

Some gems (somewhat loosely quoted) from Dave during our conversation:

~ We seek comfort in traditions, forms and structures ... and then our journey can begin to embolden us to dissolve into the tradition of no tradition; the tradition of we all belong...there's just this great life 

~ The idea of original condition is not a fixed, finite thing, it's changing, it's moving, it's expansive, it's creativity, it's life - so that can never be pinned down, we can never be pinned down - original condition is far more of a question and spark for curiosity

Books we mention:

Creative Quest by Questlove

The Creative Act: A Way of Being by Rick Rubin

Links:

@davefrederickgardner
www.original-condition.com (online courses, retreat offerings and more)