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: My Fearless 92-Year-Old Yoga Student
Posted in failure, learning, yoga on February 10, 2012 | 3 Comments »
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Beginning: How to Get to the Other Side
Posted in change, choices, experience, learning, tagged postaday2011 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 [...]
Beginning: How to Understand the U.S. Economy for Free
Posted in economy, learning, tagged postaday2011 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, [...]
Beginning: The Opportunity of Us
Posted in discovery, education, learning, politics, tagged postaday2011 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 [...]
Beginning: Is It Time for Yoga University?
Posted in education, learning, teaching, yoga, tagged postaday2011 on September 28, 2011 | 6 Comments »
New York is blessed with a lot of wonderful yoga teacher training programs. It’s also home to some yoga teacher training programs that are put in place with the intention of helping studio owners pay the rent. The trouble is that it can be difficult to discern between these two groups. In the past, I’ve [...]
Beginning: Practice Makes Better
Posted in learning, yoga, tagged postaday2011 on September 25, 2011 | 2 Comments »
“Practice is the best of all instructors.” ~ Publilius Syrus, Roman author, 1st century B.C. I recently went to Paula Lynch’s class at Yoga Works. The class was beautifully sequenced and I learned so much about alignment in the process. She spent a good deal of time prepping our arms and backs because the class culminated [...]
Beginning: Finding Comfort Outside Your Comfort Zone
Posted in learning, risk, television, tagged postaday2011 on September 22, 2011 | 6 Comments »
“Your current safe boundaries were once unknown frontiers.” – Unknown via MJ, one of this blog’s readers MJ, a reader of this blog and constant source of inspiration and ideas for me, sent through this quote in a recent comment on my post about negotiating the balance between fear and boredom as we take on [...]
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