Posted in books, tagged postaday2011 on September 30, 2011 | 5 Comments »
The hunt for a literary agent begins! I am currently working on a book project that focuses on financial wellness, bridging my MBA and corporate work experience with my work as a yoga teacher and practitioner. With this project, I decided to take a look around for an agent. I read blog and books by [...]
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Posted in business, leader, leadership, tagged postaday2011 on September 29, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Middle Management is a dreaded term in the business world. It’s taken on a connotation of someone trapped in the middle executing a lot of actions that were defined by some Senior Leader. I am one of those people in the middle but here’s what I’m learning: being in the middle can be a curse [...]
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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 [...]
Posted in animals, dogs, tagged postaday2011 on September 27, 2011 |
From Alone to Home is a site lovingly curated by Kate Antoniades that promote pet adoption. Kate reached out to me last week after reading about Phineas and asked if I’d share our adoption story. Of course I jumped at the chance and the post is now up on Kate’s site. Click here to read [...]
Posted in encouragement, yoga, tagged postaday2011 on September 26, 2011 | 2 Comments »
I’ve been known to have a fiery side of my personality. I’m a deeply passionate, committed person, I don’t take no for answer (or at least I don’t take it well), and I fully believe in the way of the will. Wherever I go, I go with all my heart. No one who has ever [...]
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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 [...]
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Posted in career, choices, yoga on September 24, 2011 | 2 Comments »
“The Sage considers the belly, not the eye.” ~ The Way and Its Power In the past few weeks, I’ve been wrestling through a next step I’d like to take in my life and career. My interest is in building healthy systems, whether those systems are in healthcare settings, work environments, schools, and in the [...]
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Posted in change, tagged postaday2011 on September 23, 2011 | 2 Comments »
Yesterday Brian coached me to think differently about fire. Yes, it burns things away. It can destroy and can spur beginnings, good and bad. As always, Brian took it one step further. “Why don’t we think about your inner fire, Christa, as something that keeps you in check?” I looked at him with a puzzled [...]
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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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Posted in student, teaching, yoga, tagged postaday2011 on September 21, 2011 | 2 Comments »
Yesterday I wrote a post about the importance of figuring out whom your business or organization serves and why you’re the ideal person to fulfill that need for your stakeholders. In it, I partially described the type of yoga student whom we focus our efforts on at Compass Yoga. I got a few emails that asked [...]
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