If you’re like me, then at some point in your life you awoke to a startling realization: that although your childhood instilled you with a particular map and compass for navigating this life, and although this framework served you for the first 2-3 decades of life, at some point (for me, it was at ~26 […]
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Some days, you’ll find me on a yoga mat. After all, it makes sense that you’d find a credentialed yoga teacher here, on the mat: breathing and moving through postures that a lineage of human beings have gathered to explore the infinitely expansive tradition we call yoga. What isn’t so logical (on the surface) is
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I knew I wasn’t quite ready to sign up for a 100 miler. It had been a dream of mine for a few years now, and after running 100 kilometers (~60 miles) through the mountains of Colorado the previous summer, my takeaway had been that if I were to ever increase the distance, then I would ideally spend another year focused on strengthening up important muscles and healing injuries (you know, like a good yoga therapist would do). But life doesn’t always work in an ideal fashion, does it?
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Note: This article was initially published as “A Lesson from the Mountains” over on my Your Health, Reprogrammed website in July 2020. This post came from an experience I had climbing one of my favorite peaks. I published it over there as the ideas for Upward Slopes were brewing in my mind but before Upward
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Some days, I find myself in a situation that others might find peculiar. I’m somewhere between 20 to 100 feet (or more) up on a cliff wall. Now, understand that I’m tied to a rope, so a fall would not cause real harm to me (probably). But my brain doesn’t fully register this. My brain,
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(a short series on using yoga and mindfulness practices to support your every endeavor) I like to run. Far. As in, sometimes I count miles by the dozens. For example, my last training run was an easy one dozen miles. My next race will be 3 or 4 dozen. When I say how far I
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How do we get ourselves through big changes – the kind that threatens to shake us to our very core – while supporting ourselves – mind and body – so we maintain an ability to continue making positive change? This is the second question I pose on the face of this platform. It is one
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If you’re like most individuals in this modern world, when I speak of yoga, what your mind will go to is a physical practice involving a series of postures strung together to stretch and strengthen the body. For many, this may include ideas of the fancy yoga studio that has popped up around the corner.