Tag: Movement
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The Medicine of Walking
How Walking Makes Us Human In his incredible book, In Praise of Walking, author Shane OāMara writes that walking separates humans from other animals. Walking upright āfrees our hands for other tasks…makes our minds mobile…and changes our relationship to the world.ā OāMara even concludes that a baby who grows up in a non-human environment will…
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Autumn’s Concerto
First Movement: Reminiscence The avenues were lined with gold, and the cobbled pavement, buried in brilliant scarlet. Poetically, that would have been how Iād like to describe the scene. Spending my third fall in the US and that clichĆ©d touristy image of fall with its rich amber maple trees remains a fantasy. One reason was…
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Shaping Our Presence to Be More Supportive
This article was originally published on the Mindful Leader Blog in JuneĀ of 2020. In these days of heightened anxiety and insecurity, many of us are drawn to be a safe and reassuring space for those who are in crisis and afraid. And, when weāre in that often unavoidable place ourselves, weāre grateful to the…
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Work-Life Balance: Setting Boundaries from Within
Work-life balance and boundaries In a world that’s becoming faster paced by the minute, work-life balance is a hot topic. In particular, we talk a lot about boundaries: recognizing we need them, developing the competency to assert them (usually by saying ānoā), and vigilantly maintaining them so that weāre not overextending and neglecting what is…
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Visiting China every day
My Qi Qong practice is taking over my consciousness. For a year I have been getting up every morning and doing about an hour of these extraordinary exercises. The tradition Iām in is called Hua Shan and my teacher says that itās over 2,500 years old. It does feel odd, ancient and simultaneously unfamiliar to…