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Final Summary of Sabbatical Activities
(Sabbatical/Sabbatical)
... for this training is a minimum of 25 hours a week and includes: - daily study of the sutras & wisdom traditions - daily meditation - asana practice 5-6 times/week - teacher-training 6-8 hours/week ...
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Who Is In Charge?
(Journal/Journal)
... struggle with life.” This concept of surrender is one we’ve been struggling with for years as we’ve engaged in our spiritual studies and practice together. The concept is shot through the wisdom ...
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Where Do Prompts Come From?
(Twelve Doors/Twelve Doors)
... books of prompts available today, but this request may indicate a problem in the way I've asked writers to think about their daily practice. If you're in writing mode, topics for writing should present ...
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Mahamudra
(Influences/Influences)
... that is, how do we experience things? And if we can find a practice, a way of being, that allows us to be peaceful about our immediate experience, it seems we really can drop much of our suffering. ...
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Misguided Yogi
(Lessons from the Mat/Lessons from the Mat)
... recovery and painful rehabilitation. Theresa was saying how much she had learned about herself as she practiced through the injury. I, too, have been aware of huge lessons in this painful moment of my ...
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Lean in to the Difficulty
(Influences/Influences)
... how they are also big lessons for the writer. Difficulties abound in any writer’s practice. We face hard places in the writing and convince ourselves we just can’t fix it. Resistance to the piece builds, ...
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Can You Wiggle Your Toes?
(Journal/Journal)
... point in your practice, do the same thing. When you find yourself struggling to get into pose, straighten your spine, extend your heart center, soften the core, and then breathe into the heart. ...
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April 2010 Reading
(Influences/Influences)
... a Psychology of Awakening. This is one of the most helpful books I’ve read this year. Welwood’s approach to therapy is infused with Buddhist practice, and it is an approach that works for me right ...
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In This New Space
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... space, I will balance “being” (grounded equanimity) and “becoming” (creative urgency). In this new space, I will deepen my practice, become more devoted to daily honing my connection to spirit. In ...
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A New Kind of Balance
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... This, in essence, is what Integral Life Practice is all about. ILP provides “an organizing framework for a lifetime of learning and transformation. By illuminating the big picture of consciousness, life, ...
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Devotion to the Practice
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... drawn to her, the gardens, and her work. I am dedicated to learning to be a good yoga teacher and to developing my own deep ashtanga yoga practice. Part of my distress with the foot injury I’ve ...
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Pop
(Journal/Journal)
... yoga practice. Teaching was going great—such a joy--, and I was happy to take up some of the slack at the studio while Theresa and Calvin work on the new place, slated to open in June. We are all looking ...
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The Right Tool for the Right Job
(Sabbatical/Sabbatical)
... for addressing all manner of moods and circumstances you experience in maintaining your practice? If your answer to these questions is no (or maybe, or “I have no idea”), you may be interested in ...
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"There's always a five-year-old!"
(Lessons from the Mat/Lessons from the Mat)
Jeffrey Davis, yogi and writing teacher, tells the story of a participant in a workshop he was conducting who complained she couldn’t really undertake the “practice” he was advocating for becoming ...
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What is Your Dharma This Year?
(Sabbatical/Sabbatical)
... yoga and writing. For five days we practice yoga, pranayama, and meditation, write to Jeffrey’s prompts, and engage in lots of good conversation about literature, how to read it, and how to create it. ...
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Get quiet, soften, a way will open.
(Influences/Influences)
... within us. That is the purpose of a practice, she says, “to habituate ourselves to openness.” I so want to get this. It is a practice for sure: I react unconsciously or mindlessly to an event, ...
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January 2010 Reading
(Influences/Influences)
... we move through our days. The practice of mindfulness then is a way to begin to identify those unexamined motivations, to catch myself as I act out of some old conditioning that no longer serves me. ...
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Mindfulness Centered on the Body
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There is one thing that, when cultivated and regularly practiced, leads to deep spiritual intention, to peace, to mindfulness and clear comprehension, to vision and knowledge, to a happy ...
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Day Eight of 2010 Retreat
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... images, and got up early this morning to do another meditation. I've rarely had direct insight out of my meditation practice, but this morning, I knew the week of retreat had finally brought me to this: ...
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The Thicket of Views and Opinions
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... universe has constructed circumstance such that I’m forced to drop those views and reside in uncertainty. Kornfield says “when we are free from views, we are willing to learn.” His practice at the ...