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Grounding Thru The Sit Bones: March 2011

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Grounding Thru The Sit Bones. Some yoga thoughts, Some yoga practice. Tuesday, March 22, 2011. Continuing with the theme of how we learn.what's the role of the teacher, the role of the student. I think I'd like to see those boundaries get a bit more mixed up. I don't think the person in front of the room is all-knowing nor should we expect that of him/her- teachers are human beings, just like everyone else, with a bit more experience in a specific area. That I have a problem with. Can sit with uncertainty.

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Grounding Thru The Sit Bones: Honoring the Sleeve-Passions

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Grounding Thru The Sit Bones. Some yoga thoughts, Some yoga practice. Monday, January 02, 2012. I thought that was a brilliant observation, and I often consider it when making. Next move. And my moves have been sort of disparate, but they still follow a me-specific logic that, I hope, stays true to those sleeve-passions: journalism, art history, costume design, yoga, more journalism, and, now, biology (in preparation for some sort of teaching/writing). Brenda’s Bugle,. Vol 2, No. 5 (March, 1978). Maybe t...

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Grounding Thru The Sit Bones: Eyes Wide Shut

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Grounding Thru The Sit Bones. Some yoga thoughts, Some yoga practice. Monday, January 23, 2012. We did ardha chandrasana. Last week. Against the wall. Most of my students are older and the strength and balance needed to hold the pose in the center of the room take it off the menu for them. It’s such a great pose, that’s it’s a shame to eliminate it, so we do it against the wall and it becomes a release pose. Really, it does, you should try it. People closed their eyes. Emotionally, it feels like flying&#...

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Grounding Thru The Sit Bones: April 2011

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Grounding Thru The Sit Bones. Some yoga thoughts, Some yoga practice. Sunday, April 03, 2011. With the Inner Critic. Do we all agree (sort of) that yoga is working with. Your body rather than against. At least in this day and age (I'm not sure you can call keeping your arm raised for a couple of years. Working with, but maybe that's just me). Are we trying to make peace with our bodies and quiet the monkey-mind, or are we trying to discipline the soft tissue? Erica had a nice post. Build a Yoga Community.

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Grounding Thru The Sit Bones: A Not Un-familiar Metaphor

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Grounding Thru The Sit Bones. Some yoga thoughts, Some yoga practice. Tuesday, August 09, 2011. A Not Un-familiar Metaphor. I've been Xtreme gardening lately. After about three years of benign neglect (courtesy of little boys who need close supervision outside), I've been able to turn my attention back to massive prairie weeds and runaway ferns. Cathartic, if exhausting. And then there's the peripheral knowledge that just comes with life experience- things picked up along the way that are relevant eventu...

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Grounding Thru The Sit Bones: September 2011

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Grounding Thru The Sit Bones. Some yoga thoughts, Some yoga practice. Friday, September 16, 2011. More things yoga ruined. It was fun to think about things that yoga ruined. You all came up with a good list and now, with some continued thought, I've come up with some more. I think it's why I tend to avoid the Yoga Wars these days; how can you argue with some one about their beliefs (and that's fundamentally what all that is about- what everyone believes. Their yoga to be)? In parenthood, endurance sports...

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Grounding Thru The Sit Bones: Apples and Oranges

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Grounding Thru The Sit Bones. Some yoga thoughts, Some yoga practice. Tuesday, January 10, 2012. One of the things you learn right away in a class on experimental design, is not too include too many variables. If you want to test the effects of a certain treatment, better to test on organisms as similar as possible so you can be sure you’re measuring the effects of your treatment, rather than something else. Judging by revelations of the last week, including Yoga Dawg’s link. If you want to measure anyth...

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Grounding Thru The Sit Bones: August 2011

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Grounding Thru The Sit Bones. Some yoga thoughts, Some yoga practice. Tuesday, August 09, 2011. A Not Un-familiar Metaphor. I've been Xtreme gardening lately. After about three years of benign neglect (courtesy of little boys who need close supervision outside), I've been able to turn my attention back to massive prairie weeds and runaway ferns. Cathartic, if exhausting. And then there's the peripheral knowledge that just comes with life experience- things picked up along the way that are relevant eventu...

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Grounding Thru The Sit Bones: May 2011

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Grounding Thru The Sit Bones. Some yoga thoughts, Some yoga practice. Wednesday, May 18, 2011. Well, I think I've finally decompressed enough from the spring semester to reenter polite society. Funny how you can teach yoga for years, practice for decades and still be laid low by the double-whammy of mental stress and over-scheduling. Am I just not listening to myself, or is this kind of thing inevitable when expectations are high and you want to do well? Lesson for next semester? Learning and comprehendi...

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Grounding Thru The Sit Bones: January 2012

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Grounding Thru The Sit Bones. Some yoga thoughts, Some yoga practice. Tuesday, January 31, 2012. Takes One to Know One. Although, as I hope is the case with many of you, then my worries really began (Tell me I'm not the only one who falls prey to self-doubt in the face of stern, accomplished yoga). "Am I boring her? Is this too basic? Am I talking too much? And then it dawned on me- she is probably a teacher. Except, how did I sense that? Do we give off a scent only discernible to other teachers? Last we...