“We students (and future teachers) needed to learn how to be “unknowing,” to embrace beginner’s mind, become skilled followers; we were being asked to suspend our authoritarian ways of thinking to become humble, open, and flexible enough to learn about yoga postures and anatomy and mostly ourselves. How can you understand others or help themContinue reading “Tough-Love Lessons of Bikram Yoga”
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Turn the Teacher Off!
“I used to confuse and misuse the two kinds of listening, and I bet many other teachers can relate. As a consequence, the people I cared about, who only needed me to be there and not do anything for them, told me to ‘turn the teacher off!’” Almost every school day for the past thirteen years, I haveContinue reading “Turn the Teacher Off!”
