Interesting read🙏 i never did ma myself, but have many friends who did or do. I like your way of describing those between the lines things and how performance and dicipline become art, that’s beautiful 🪽🩵
I actually went to a Nordic folk school (a non-formal, residential school focusing on personal growth, community, and creative or practical subjects rather than exams or grades) when I was 19/20 years old, and there we had different programs. I attended the yoga program, but two of the others were called “Martial Arts and Zen” and “Aikido”, so I have lots of friends who’ve practiced martial arts 😍
I have come to truly appreciate alternative schooling. I wish it wasn't so misunderstood. In Norway I believe things are different. We look at people like this as strange and weird. A consequence of being next door to the USA i think.
Haha yeah, but we weirdos who went to Waldorf schools and folk schools and such have learned to take those skeptical, squinting looks we get with a wink — and to own our alternative ways and otherness.
In fact, it feels kind of good, even freeing, to be different! Because here in Norway we also have a bit of that same attitude toward alternative things. But the concept of folk high schools (these are only a year and is volunteerly done after regular high school, wich in norway is up to 18/19years og age) is actually quite common here in Scandinavia, and in that sense more socially accepted than, for example, Waldorf schools...
Interesting read🙏 i never did ma myself, but have many friends who did or do. I like your way of describing those between the lines things and how performance and dicipline become art, that’s beautiful 🪽🩵
Thank you. It means so much that you got something out of it.
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I actually went to a Nordic folk school (a non-formal, residential school focusing on personal growth, community, and creative or practical subjects rather than exams or grades) when I was 19/20 years old, and there we had different programs. I attended the yoga program, but two of the others were called “Martial Arts and Zen” and “Aikido”, so I have lots of friends who’ve practiced martial arts 😍
I have come to truly appreciate alternative schooling. I wish it wasn't so misunderstood. In Norway I believe things are different. We look at people like this as strange and weird. A consequence of being next door to the USA i think.
Haha yeah, but we weirdos who went to Waldorf schools and folk schools and such have learned to take those skeptical, squinting looks we get with a wink — and to own our alternative ways and otherness.
In fact, it feels kind of good, even freeing, to be different! Because here in Norway we also have a bit of that same attitude toward alternative things. But the concept of folk high schools (these are only a year and is volunteerly done after regular high school, wich in norway is up to 18/19years og age) is actually quite common here in Scandinavia, and in that sense more socially accepted than, for example, Waldorf schools...