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Beginning: Is It Time for Yoga University?

Posted in education, learning, teaching, yoga, tagged 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 [...]

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Beginning: Practice Makes Better

Posted in learning, yoga, tagged 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 [...]

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Beginning: Finding Comfort Outside Your Comfort Zone

Posted in learning, risk, television, tagged 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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Beginning: The Lessons of Great Men

Posted in books, leadership, learning, tagged on August 12, 2011 | 2 Comments »

Forbes Magazine ran an excellent article this month by author and biographer Paul Johnson about the lessons learned from the lives of a handful of great men, and by great they mean well-known. Some of them made drastic mistakes that we can learn from. Others lived lives of nobility that we would do well to [...]

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Beginning: Wounds Can Be Made Into Wisdom

Posted in career, dreams, learning, work, yoga, tagged on August 2, 2011 | 2 Comments »

“Turn your wounds into wisdom.” ~ Oprah Winfrey Opposites are a blessing. We gain new insight into joy through sorrow, love through heartbreak, health through sickness, success through failure. In this way, not getting what we want is a reason to be grateful. A blessing wrapped in disappointment When I graduated from business school, I [...]

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Beginning: Practicing and Teaching Yoga Takes Great Courage

Posted in learning, teaching, yoga, tagged on June 12, 2011 | 2 Comments »

“People who practice yoga and meditation are the most courageous people in the world. They are willing to sit with their pain in order to heal it. I don’t know anyone who’s had an easy life. Do you? Trauma and suffering are part of the human experience. Give yourself over to explore it; go into [...]

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Beginning: Why You Need to Know What You’re Doing

Posted in experience, learning, teaching, yoga, tagged on June 10, 2011 | 2 Comments »

“If you know what you’re doing, you can do what you want.” ~ Moshe Feldenkrais “Awareness is the first tool of change.” ~ Arturo Peal Sometimes you can play the game of fake it ’til you make it. You can make it up as you go along, and hope that it all goes well. I’m [...]

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Beginning: Yoga Teaches Us to Fall with Grace

Posted in books, learning, yoga on May 29, 2011 | 2 Comments »

“One learns to fall gracefully in order to roll.” ~ Matthew Sanford Two weeks later, I’m still thinking about Matthew Sanford’s talk at the Yoga Journal Conference. His book, Waking: A Memoir of Trauma and Transcendence had a profound effect on me, how I see the world, and how I see my own yoga practice [...]

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Beginning: Mutant Message Down Under by Marlo Morgan

Posted in adventure, books, inspiration, intelligence, karma, learning, travel, women, tagged on May 11, 2011 | 2 Comments »

“The only way to pass any test is to take the test. It is inevitable.” ~ Elder Regal Black Swan, leader of “the Real People” My friend, Pam, was a private yoga client of mine. For her Christmas present she wanted more yoga in her life and her lovely mom graciously made that possible. Pam [...]

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Beginning: Phin & I Continue Our Work on Separation Anxiety

Posted in animals, dogs, learning, tagged on May 7, 2011 | 1 Comment »

Phin and I attended our second semi-annual gathering of dachshunds at Washington Square Park. The event is put on the last Saturday in April and the first Saturday in October by the Dachshund Friendship Circle. I’m sure that parents of other breeds are equally passionate about their pups, though I’ve never seen people go ga-ga [...]

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