Hello Friends, I hope this blog post version of an email finds you happy and healthy! I continue to thank my lucky stars for having connected with you at some point in my life, whether I met you as my teacher, coach, mentor, colleague, or friend, or you were my student in yoga class, aContinue reading “Helping Ourselves & Others, Together.”
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2018 In Hindsight
My personal reflections on writing as a tool for wisdom and wellness.
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It’s Not About the Grades: Landscapes for Learning Beyond Schooling
About my manuscript in progress, It’s Not About the Grades: Landscapes for Learning Beyond Schooling (memoir of a high school English teacher)
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Podcast 013: It’s Not About the Grades: INTRODUCTION
It’s Not About the Grades: Love for Learning Beyond Schooling is very close to completion, so I am recording a reading of a few chapters for feedback, as a faster way of getting “peer review” before I write proposals for publishing the final manuscript. INTRODUCTION Download Episode HERE I would LOVE your input, insight, constructiveContinue reading “Podcast 013: It’s Not About the Grades: INTRODUCTION”
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Podcast 011: Teri Almquist
“Every student deserves a good teacher, every teacher deserves the opportunity to be a great teacher” -Teri Almquist Building an inner connection with yourself isn’t easy. This union, or yoga, is hard work. It’s about trust–first in a teacher when you don’t yet know how to trust yourself and you are overwhelmedContinue reading “Podcast 011: Teri Almquist”
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Podcast w/ Myozen Joan Amaral on Zen, Zazen, Practice and Social Life
“The best way is to understand yourself, and then you will understand everything. So when you try hard to make your own way, you will help others, and you will be helped by others. Before you make your own way you cannot help anyone, and no one can help you.” ― Shunryu Suzuki http://traffic.libsyn.com/landscapesforlearning/JoanAmaralfinal008.mp3Continue reading “Podcast w/ Myozen Joan Amaral on Zen, Zazen, Practice and Social Life”
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Learning is Life
“To see young people come alive is the reward of teaching” —Joseph Cambell According to Joseph Cambell, famed author of The Hero with a Thousand Faces (1949), Myths to Live by (1972), and The Hero’s Journey (1990), the goal of maturity is to know oneself —to understand the inner landscape– to be the hero of one’sContinue reading “Learning is Life”
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Podcast: Meet World Traveling Yoga Teacher, Changu Changezi
003: Podcast with Changu Changezi Changu Changezi is an ordinary guy with an inspiring story about learning and landscapes. He is a traveling Bikram yoga teacher who lives his life with integrity, authenticity, and an unshakeable sense of self. He has been traveling the world teaching Bikram yoga for the past four years, approaching learningContinue reading “Podcast: Meet World Traveling Yoga Teacher, Changu Changezi”
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Podcast: Grace Tempany, Multi-potentialite and teacher-extraordinaire
Grace and I discuss our desire to begin a conversation about teaching as moral and teaching with courage and integrity. We discuss the need for more authentic forms of teaching and learning in school, so that kids can embark on their individual journeys toward the self rather than just trying to find the right answerContinue reading “Podcast: Grace Tempany, Multi-potentialite and teacher-extraordinaire”
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Tough-Love Lessons of Bikram Yoga
“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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The Pain and Hurt of Yoga
“Gaining…wisdom might hurt a little bit, but there’s no better process to dedicate yourself to than mining your own suffering for meaning and truth. And there is no better profession than teaching to witness such beautiful transformation.”
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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!”
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Dear Efficient Utilitarian Student,
Dear Efficient Utilitarian Student, It’s not your fault that you were raised with the great American values of utility and efficiency. These values are enacted and followed by virtually everyone around you– your parents, your school, your government; they’ve been enacted throughout most of American history, especially in the Industrial Revolution, in the world ofContinue reading “Dear Efficient Utilitarian Student,”
