June 2011
1 post
May 2011
2 posts
“Distancing myself. — I do not take revenge, I watch it happen.”
– Martin Kusch | Thought for the day 16/5/2011 - Academia.edu
Happiness Is...
… when Progress meets Sustainability.
A yoga teacher of mine exclaimed that she could not believe how many of us teachers in training were injured. Every “advanced” clinic/class: it’s shoulder-this, spine-this, hip-this. A case in the Yoga-Injury Pandemic is most perfectly exemplified by this: Confessions of a Type-A Yogi. And apparently it wasn’t always like this.
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April 2011
3 posts
Weaving Wholeness: Fat Tail Finance meets Yoga...
I stumbled upon my two big passions du jour at around the same time. And they couldn’t seem any more distant from eachother. Finance/Extreme Tail Events/Risk Management/Securitization and Yoga…. can you blame me for assuming the intersection of these two was Null Set?
I struggled internally and pursued each interest whole heartedly but separately. It wasn’t until my...
“You can separate your feelings from your response to them. By distinguishing...”
– Yoga Journal - Change is in the Air
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I also figured out that the exercise-related injuries for which we don’t...”
– http://www.fooledbyrandomness.com/AntiFragilityChapter8.pdf
March 2011
4 posts
“Everyone seems to have a favorite yogi tea recipe, but here is a basic one for...”
– Yoga Journal - Yoga Ayurveda - Brewed to Perfection
“Seated Twists:
Seated twists of all kinds are powerful anxiety relievers.
...”
– Yoga Journal - Antidotes to Anxiety
“One cannot “win” in yoga, nor does “going deeper” in a pose necessarily mean...”
– http://jamesmacadam.com/2011/02/28/confessions-of-a-type-a-yogi/
““Where something has gone awry is in prevention of diseases,” he said. “The...”
– http://thenationshealth.aphapublications.org/content/41/2/1.2.full
Yoga as Preventative Medicine?
February 2011
4 posts
“Princeton’s Jacobs believes that, based on experiments with cats,...”
– THE MOOD MOLECULE - TIME
Anusara, Clumsiness and Mind-Body
I feel so clumsy in practice. Discovering new angles to bend the body in and new methods of movement is always a bit of a head trip. And I do not feel that familiar, strong connection with the instructor. Maybe it is just too soon. Maybe in some cases it just takes time. All I know is that I left class beaming with joy. I went and bought 20 beautiful, golden bananas. I ate ~10 of them for...
Reflections: Difficulties
Damn you Sage Koundinya II! Who are you to have such a bitch of a pose dedicated to you? And why is it that seemingly half the room breezes into this pose while I struggle, huff and puff to get myself to progress 1 step past the elementary hip stretch leading up to it?? Ok, I do not curse and I do not huff and I do not puff (or I try not to :), to be honest). Still, struggle saturates my...
January 2011
6 posts
“The irony is that our ideal of perfection—which arises from the ego’s need...”
– http://www.yogajournal.com/lifestyle/843
WatchA great 45 minute sequence with plenty of hip openers.
Reflections: Change
The transient gloominess of this winter hit me especially hard this year. It stirred up dissonance on many different fronts.
I felt the pull of hibernation but my inner drive kept burning at my heels. My practice got sloppy. I was too hard on myself mentally. I pushed myself too far.
I felt a growing distance between me and those closest to me but my heart yearned for sharing. I felt...
“Om Gum Ganapatayei Namaha
Om Guhm Guh-nuh-puh-tuh-yea
Nah-mah-hah
Om and...”
– Yoga Journal - Yoga Meditation - Mantra for New Beginnings: Om Gum Ganapatayei Namaha
Quote: On Change
http://www.yogajournal.com/wisdom/439
To [honor and work with the arising desire for change] you must acknowledge that the call for changes may be larger than your ego identity and therefore may be arising from impulses you don’t fully understand. Yet you must find a way to consciously and skillfully participate in allowing the new to emerge.
[T]he practice of bringing mindfulness to the...
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Reflections: Play Time
15-month of near-daily rigorous practice and what do I realize? Remixing work with play is the most important objective!
All I really want to do is have some fun! I can move from style to style, instructor to instructor… but what is most important is the playful and exploratory mindset that I (try to) maintain during practice. It is what defines 75+% of the experience. I can do the same...