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Leap: Get Unsettled and Breathe

Posted in learning, yoga on May 1, 2012 | 1 Comment »

“My view is that if your philosophy is not unsettled daily then you are blind to all the universe has to offer.” ~ Neil deGrasse Tyson via DailyGood.org Are you annoyed? Be thankful for the object of your irritation. Having a naturally constitution that some describe as “spicy” and “fire-y”, I often find my annoyance [...]

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Leap: Learn Your Scales – How the Lessons of Music Class Relate to Yoga

Posted in learning, meditation, yoga on April 5, 2012 | 2 Comments »

“Variation is great, but make sure you’re grounded in the basics first.” ~ Wendy Newton, ISHTA Yoga Senior Teacher On Sunday, I went to a session on meditation techniques at ISHTA Yoga as part of my advanced yoga teacher training. Wendy, one of our teachers, fielded questions from us about the basic meditation techniques we’re [...]

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Leap: One Picture a Day

Posted in creativity, goals, learning on March 19, 2012 | 2 Comments »

For Christmas, my family gave me cash and Amazon gift certificates so that I could put that money toward getting a new digital camera. My old one started to develop its quirks and had been put to goo use for many years. Because I know India will be filled with gorgeous photo opportunities, I wanted [...]

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Leap: My Fearless 92-Year-Old Yoga Student

Posted in failure, learning, yoga on February 10, 2012 | 3 Comments »

This post is also available as a podcast. I arrived at my community yoga class 30 minutes early. An older gentleman was waiting outside of the door. Seeing he walked with a cane, I wondered if he might be in the wrong place. “Are you here for yoga?” I asked brightly. “What else would I [...]

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Leap: Leave Your Business Alone, or What I Learned from Jeremy Gleick

Posted in education, learning, school on January 23, 2012 | Leave a Comment »

I’d never heard of Jeremy Gleick until this weekend. On a snowy Saturday, the first snowy day of the year, Phineas and I were snuggled up in our apartment. He in his bed with his favorite squeaky toy and me on the couch with the New York Times. There was a special education section in [...]

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Leap: My Dog as My Teacher and Healer

Posted in animals, dogs, learning, meditation, teaching, yoga on January 18, 2012 | 4 Comments »

Buddhists believe that when the student is ready, the teacher will appear. Native Americans believe that when a soul comes into our lives it is because it has something to teach us and when we lose someone close to us it is a signal we learned all we could from them. I believe in both [...]

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Beginning: Richard Nixon, My Dad, and Making Friends With Fear

Posted in fear, learning, yoga on November 16, 2011 | 2 Comments »

We pack up fear; we push it away. We focus our efforts on beating fear, and when we can’t beat it we try our best to ignore it. What if we could embrace it? What if we could make it our mission to do exactly the thing that scares us most? I’ve been thinking a [...]

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Beginning: How to Get to the Other Side

Posted in change, choices, experience, learning, tagged on November 2, 2011 | Leave a Comment »

“We seek not rest, but transformation. We are dancing through each other as doorways.” ~Marge Piercy A funny thing happens to me around 5pm every day. I can have a very tough day around the office, so tough that I feel like just curling up in a ball and hiding until tomorrow. And then I [...]

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Beginning: How to Understand the U.S. Economy for Free

Posted in economy, learning, tagged on October 24, 2011 | 3 Comments »

Over the weekend I watched the movie Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps, and it took me back into those scary days 3 years ago. I started working in the financial services industry in August 2008, 5 weeks before Lehman Brothers failed and our economy spun into a seemingly hopeless downward spiral. They were dark days, [...]

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Beginning: The Opportunity of Us

Posted in discovery, education, learning, politics, tagged on October 1, 2011 | 2 Comments »

“Two things awe me most, the starry sky above me and the moral law within me.” ~ Immanuel Kant A couple of years ago, I took Michael Sandel’s online class Justice. (See also wrote a book by the same name, and it takes the basic principles discussed in his class and applies them to today’s [...]

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