In this podcast I talk about the opportunity inside of feeling resistance. How resistance can be a door opening instead of a door closing.
- The nervous system
- The breath
- Creating a bullet-proof nervous system
- Training ourselves to allow and to relax into discomfort
- Working with fear
- Developing willingness... not forcing or oppressing ourselves but being curious and open, willing to feel
- Letting go of preferences
- Getting out of our own way
- The process
Jun 10, 2021
1 hr 6 min
In this podcast I talk about two students who are confronting resistance to difficulty. There is irritation in my voice and I took the podcast down, worried they would hear that instead of the passion I have for the pivot point they are in. However, I'm putting it back up largely because my acupuncturist urged me to put it out there saying that it's my job, as a teacher, to be slightly irritating, that it can bring value, movement, and growth in places of stagnation, if students choose to take it that way.
Jan 31, 2021
1 hr 17 min
In this podcast I talk about two students who are confronting resistance to difficulty. There is irritation in my voice and I took the podcast down, worried they would hear that instead of the passion I have for the pivot point they are in. However, I'm putting it back up largely because my acupuncturist urged me to put it out there saying that it's my job, as a teacher, to be slightly irritating, that it can bring value, movement, and growth in places of stagnation, if students choose to take it that way.
Jan 30, 2021
1 hr 17 min
Disease and the Locus of Control:
In this podcast I talk about realizing that the locus of control is on the inside and how you can effect your health and your life through emotions and your internal conditions. I explore how we can affect things like cancer, disease, and sickness through emotional processes by linking emotions to cellular health. I explore the importance of developing a practice and a process to develop a relationship with our emotions and the power of that.
Jan 12, 2021
49 min
Our body is our unconscious, any good practice will reveal what is there. When the unconscious comes up to the surface it is an opportunity for healing. We often experience resistance to feeling this stuff and develop strategies to avoid it. We can also develop a process of being in engagement with the encounter and through that, heal and develop a sense of stability that is not dependent on the outer world of circumstances.
Jan 6, 2021
51 min
CRISIS AS OPPORTUNITY:
In this episode I talk about working with resistance in a way that can put us in touch with the feelings that keep us stuck and feeling dead in our lives. These feelings can keep us stuck in suffering or they can be a flood gate into coming alive. Learning to feel things we "don't want to feel" can put us in touch with our truth and living in alignment with ourselves.
In the Chinese language the word for crisis has two meanings, one is crisis and one is opportunity.
Jun 26, 2020
29 min
PAIN AS A BRIDGE: WAKING UP
- Reacting and responding
- What's under the story
- Inside and outside
- Experiencing the pain
- Becoming sensative
- Resistance and Acceptance
- Pema Chodron on Warrior Slogans
- Ezra Bayda on the "Substitute Life"
- Sealskin / Soulskin
- Using pain to bring ourselves back home
Mar 26, 2020
54 min
In this podcast I talk about developing the strength that makes us consistent, dependable, and gives us integrity as human beings. It is the strength to keep on keeping on. It involves mastery as well as stability. You become like a rock or a mountain. You feel grounded in the world because you are grounded in your own self. The power that comes from this rhythmic existence is a kind of balance, harmony, and wholeness. It gives us the strength to handle both success and failure. We balance our needs.
Jan 21, 2020
17 min
Posture, Breath, Science, Emotions, and Being a Fully Human Being
-Transform or die
-Vipassana lesson
-Foundation Training
-Posture, heath, emotions
-The vagus nerve, lungs, digestive organs
-Breath = warm-up to practice, a tool to change the state of the nervous system / process emotions, prime state for learning, create freedom physically in the body
-Imbalance
-Re-define core
-Sit on the ground, assume a good posture, develop a sense of our spot, our place on this earth.
- The journey
Jan 21, 2020
1 hr 19 min
IN THIS PODCAST:
Prep talk for my Fall Series
The Tao
Spacial Imagination
Facilitating Healing
Working with emotions during practice
Equanimity
Breath work as part of the warm up
Warm-ups... and why
Sep 26, 2019
39 min
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