Alright, it’s March! That means the First Nikki Challenge 28-Day Sit-off Meditation Competition is ovar! How’d it go for you? As you recall the rules were minimal. All I asked was for you to sit. That’s it! 60 seconds, 60 minutes, it didn’t matter. The goal was to create a habit, and as all of us [...]
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Talk about weird cosmic timing. I made a short video about Santosha a couple days ago, and today in my inbox, I received the latest blog post from Arnold Ilgner, the author of The Rock Warrior’s Way: Mental Training for Climbers about Resistance and Acceptance. I absolutely enjoyed reading what Arnold had to say. He said [...] I have been reading A Year of Living Your Yoga: Daily Practices to Shape Your Life by Judith Lasater since December 2007 (thank you, Amazon Orders History). Every time I read the daily entry, I get a new perspective and insight. Today, February 27, the entry reads: If you want to embrace the light, you must also [...] This past weekend during my 500-hour teacher training, Denise Carrico came to talk to us about teaching yoga for people with cancer. Denise is a yoga teacher in the Integral tradition who has been teaching yoga for 20+ years and for people with cancer for 12 years at Seattle Cancer Lifeline in Phinney Ridge and [...] One of my favorite authors, Bill Bryson, once wrote: Welcome. And congratulations. I am delighted that you could make it. Getting here wasn’t easy, I know. In fact, I suspect it was a little tougher than you realize. … To be here now; alive in the twenty-first century and smart enough to know it, you also had to [...] Lately, it seems like the whole world is going stir-crazy on the commercialization of yoga, or debating what it is and what it’s not, and if it’s lost its soul. I have taken refuge in going back in time, as far as possible, and for some reason found some solace in reading what people who have [...] (I wrote about this in February in a different blog. It was true then, and it’s still true now, so I’ll write about it again ) I’ve been doing some research on Seattle yoga studios and as a result been reading a lot of yoga instructor biographies. More often than not, there would be [...] During check-in time at my 500-hr training this weekend, there’s a general consensus that we are all really busy. “Call me in September”, someone said, and the class nodded in agreement. I have been in massive planning mode, and for sure can feel the pressure of “more faster”. It was perfect timing when I came across [...] I used to go running in Volunteer Park in the Capitol Hill neighborhood of Seattle. A favorite route was to run to Lakeview Cemetery, go up the hill where Bruce Lee and Brandon Lee are buried, and read the words inscribed on the gravestone of Brandon Lee: “Because we don’t know when we will die, we [...] I took the 4:30 class, which I barely missed because I barely missed my bus. In class, I found that *dude* next to me, the one who’s always acting like he’s so much better than the rest of us. I kept reminding myself, “do not be offended, do not be offended”. I had read this [...] |
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