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The Last Flip of the Perpetual Calendar
(Sabbatical/Sabbatical)
... endeavor: www.BreatheMoveWrite.com will provide information on workshops and seminars I will be conducting on using breath work and gentle yoga to tap creative potential. I look forward to seeing many ...
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July 2010 Reading
(Influences/Influences)
... you were stranded on a desert island, what book would you want with you?”--I would answer the collected works of Ken Wilber. Which is kind of cheating, isn’t it, because it makes up lots of books. So ...
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Final Summary of Sabbatical Activities
(Sabbatical/Sabbatical)
... AUGUST August 18 > Begin 12 week meditation workshop with Peter Carlson of Orlando Insight Meditation Society. Began teaching yoga classes at College Park Yoga. SEPTEMBER September ...
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Twelve Doors is Leaving Home
(Twelve Doors/Twelve Doors)
... it would take to continue re-working it. In fact, I’m exhausted. So, for better or for worse, I’m kicking the kid out of the house. He’s been hanging around here way too long, and it’s time ...
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Who Is In Charge?
(Journal/Journal)
... because he is compelled to be in control. The owner herself had become intimidated with Stanley and of course the dog was totally in tune with her fearful state. So instead of working on the dog, Cesar ...
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Where Do Prompts Come From?
(Twelve Doors/Twelve Doors)
... of writing workshops, it's my job. Every week, I spend time with writers who seek inspiration and support from each other. And they also seek new and provocative topics to respond to. “Where do your prompts ...
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(Journal/Journal)
I encourage you to listen to this interview of Deepak Chopra: www.shiftinaction.com/discover/exploring_noetic_sciences/deepak_chopra/mind_of_god . In it he talks about his global network of peace ...
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Misguided Yogi
(Lessons from the Mat/Lessons from the Mat)
After yoga last night, Theresa and Calvin (my yoga teachers) and I were talking about the injuries T and I have endured. Both of us have broken our right foot and have had to work through long ...
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Lean in to the Difficulty
(Influences/Influences)
... Try out a new lifestyle and see if it fits, if it works for me at this stage of life. But as I’ve said elsewhere, things haven’t gone the way I planned. That’s an understatement. This year has been ...
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Dispatched
(Sabbatical/Sabbatical)
... to spiff it up and mark a thick, black line through it on the sabbatical “to do” list. I wanted to move on to the next project. A couple of months of work, I thought. No problem. And now, here ...
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Can You Wiggle Your Toes?
(Journal/Journal)
... work, a physical/health challenge before you. Hold that obstacle in your heart and try to soften around it. Can you stop resisting this obstacle, just for a minute? Can you see it as a friend instead ...
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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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A New Kind of Balance
(Journal/Journal)
... my activity. I realize that, before the accident, I lived much of my life in the body. Working in the yard. Doing yoga. Teaching yoga. Biking. Walking. Training with Anthony. A huge part ...
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Devotion to the Practice
(Journal/Journal)
... 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)
... the serious gardener. Today is a perfect Florida day—clear, sunny, and a high of 78--, and I took advantage of it, clearing out the dead leaves that had managed to work their way into every nook and cranny ...
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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)
... Whatever course I teach, this is the core of it. Whatever grouping of people I invite over, this is the agenda, sometimes unspoken, sometimes a clearly a defined objective. Whatever workshop I conduct, ...
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February 2010 Reading
(Influences/Influences)
... see how Katz learned to both love him and tame him. And Homer, the adorable border collie puppy comes on the scene and clinches Katz’s love of the breed and leads him into the life of working dogs. ...
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Get quiet, soften, a way will open.
(Influences/Influences)
... looked up at me and said, “No, don’t come down, Lezlie. Get quiet; work it out.” Such good advice, because the inside of my head was thunderous, full-out racket. I was rattled beyond description, fearful ...