About

The Living Lab’s Hi-Feel Lo-Tech Group Workout (HFLTGW) is a series of exercises and physical activities designed for Mind-Body-Conspicuous Humans (MBCH) who seek to experiment with various Feelosophical Flows (FF) resonating from the body.

Offered as both online and offline (OnO) guided group experiences, each HFLTGW class focuses on various aspects of modern technocultural experiences (MTE). In resistance to everyday digital devices that push and pull our bodies away from ourselves, our workouts strive to poetically explore and respond to various types of Smart Technologies (ST) and Internet of Things (IOT) that exhibit the potential to disembody emotion and downgrade Physically-Rooted Human Experiences of the Real-Time-Now (PRHEOTRTN).

There are many Proven Effective Methods (PEM) that help temporarily suspend, refresh, and reboot the human body to resiliently focus back on the PRHEOTRTN. From eating, sleeping, walking, running, daydreaming, or even do nothing, the range of PEMs are as diverse as the individuals who consciously listen to their own bodies.

The HFLTGW integrates all of these know-hows with simple Easy-To-Follow-Workout-Movements (ETFWM) inspired by Activities of Daily Technocultural Living (ADTL).

Simply put, the HFLTGW will make you sweat. You will be reminded that although the MTE of each “body” is not the same, it is also not alone. By connecting with each “body” on a primal and physiological level, we aim to make every “body” sweat.

We understand that you are busy and want to assist in maximizing the amount of attention you are able to allocate to your body throughout your ADTL.

Finding the energy to participate in an OnO exercise and to productively release tension that builds up from MTE is a luxury, one that is time-consuming and therefore expensive. We want to make PRHEOTRTN affordable and help you maintain a healthy and sustainable relationship with technology. We are not promoting total behavior modification, but should you desire temporary disconnection and isolation from technology, providing you with various alternative solutions and options to select from.

The HFLTGW is not only about releasing endorphins and feeling a sense of self-accomplishment, but it is also about turning those resulting chemically-driven guttural sensations into something that is meaningful to you on a personal level.

It is about taking the time to be with yourself, your own thinking through feeling body that somatically senses and contextualizes the world around you. It is about discovering how your body affects the way you intuitively respond and kinesthetically navigate your surroundings. It is about igniting your curiosity and compassionately interacting with other bodies and your own. Those decisions you make because it “just-feels-right”? Those moments you act upon because you have an inkling feeling that “something-isn’t-just-quite-right”? The HFLTGW is interested in flexing and extending those split seconds and transitory moments of utterances that are rationally illogical, sensorially mysterious, computationally disobedient and improvisationally sound.

Notes from the Founder of The Living Lab

" The inspiration for the Hi-Feel Lo-Tech Group Workout (HFLTGW) comes from my personal experience trying to cope with guttural anxieties and frustrations from being heavily involved in a digital technology-driven lifestyle. As a work in progress, I have been intentionally setting aside time to bring more attention to my own body by integrating more physical activities into my daily routine. Whether it is through high or low impact feelsical activities, I have been increasingly finding more comfort in being in touch with my own physicality. Thus, what better than to involve others by creating a collaborative experience and working out alone together? Having learning and leading ETFWMs as an instructor, I find shared time and space with every “body” to be special and a tremendously humbling experience.

Therefore, for me, the HFLTGW is a reaffirmation for myself, and hopefully to others, that human-human interaction is important and, even in an age when random encounters are becoming a rarity, even if it is for a short cardio-dance segment to profusely sweat and get down-and-dirty, strangers can gather and create meaningful connect through shared physical experiences. "