The other day my yoga teacher was talking about how to go deeper into a twist during a standing pose. “Focus on your legs,” he said, “Root them. Strong roots will allow you more freedom of movement. Move your energy down to enable you to shift up.”
I know it’s a little cheesy, but it made me [...]
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Strong roots to help you move freely
Posted in The Practice of Life, tagged parenting, yoga on August 14, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Standing up straight
Posted in Learning and Teaching, tagged consulting, expectation setting, managing, yoga on May 19, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I’m a bit of a sloucher. It’s an ingrained habit which I’m not particularly proud of. In fact, if you forced me to make a list of 10 things I’d like to change about my physical presence, standing up straight would probably make the top 5.
Until recently, I didn’t seem to be able to do anything [...]
“Life is an end in itself, and the only question as to whether it is worth living is whether you have enough of it.”
Posted in The Practice of Life, tagged books, Jane Jacobs, yoga on January 8, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
How great is that quote? It’s from Oliver Wendell Holmes, quoted in Jane Jacobs’ The Death and Life of Great American Cities. I’m particularly taken with it as I’ve been thinking about how since I’ve recommitted to yoga, it’s impacted both my work and my home life in a positive way. Which is funny, because I’ve [...]
Acting as if I am
Posted in The Practice of Life, tagged committing to work, Parenting Wisdom, resolutions, yoga on January 2, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
A funny thing about being a parent is that once you are one, you are one. There’s nothing (barring the insane and/or criminal) that you can do to not be a parent. You can, of course, choose to be a completely uninvolved parent, but still, there it is, your progeny roams the planet.
I sort of [...]
