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This morning I got chatting with two women in Dorking who are both yoga practitioners. One of them has recently qualified as a yoga teacher and the other is doing her training. I realised I felt lucky to be in a room with people who value peace. When I mentioned that I learn and teach non violent communication, one of them pointed out that it is a key concept in yoga. We each said, at pretty much then same time, the word ‘ahimsa’ the Sanskrit word for non violence this underp

Rio Street Training Manual Lottie Child Winner of the Brazil Links 2009 British Council funded research residency award Rio Street Training Manual This training manual contains a wide variety of people’s techniques for being safe and joyful in the streets. It gives a new name and a collective home for the behaviours that we all do in our own ways to keep our selves sane, make ourselves laugh and find meaning as we move through and thus shape places. A tendency towards homogen

The Nanopolitics handbook, published in 2013 reflected on embodied experiences. It charts the journey from bodies to a book (ours) back to other bodies (yours and those that you take part in). To do this, the book presents and proposes the practice and political playing field we call nanopolitics. You can call it something else – whatever you call it; the body is political, traversed by social tensions, a site of struggles sometimes. The book maps out some of those, and offer