body language

I’ve taken a couple workshops with bodyworker Thomas Meyers. I did the foundation workshop in Anatomy Trains and then did another workshop with him through the Pilates Association of Canada on how to read bodies. I found them both incredibly worthwhile.  Thomas has a way of talking about the body that makes you think about [...]

forgiveness

Have you heard about The Forgiveness Project?
Today, Katy Hutchison was speaking at the school I teach at. Powerful, blow-me-away kind of stuff.  What an example of the power of forgiveness. I can’t even imagine forgiving my husband’s killer. I’d like to think I’m capable of it, but I don’t know if I am.
I am still [...]

fais do do

I’m not just imagining it – my desire for more sleep in the winter can be traced back to my ancestors:
But the French seem to have been particularly sleepy. They “hibernated” even in temperate zones. In Burgundy, after the wine harvest, the workers burned the vine stocks, repaired their tools and left the land to [...]

poem

The Rider
A boy told me
if he roller-skated fast enough
his loneliness couldn’t catch up to him,
the best reason I ever heard
for trying to be a champion.
What I wonder tonight
pedaling hard down King William Street
is if it translates to bicycles.
A victory! To leave your loneliness
panting behind you on some street corner
while you float free into a cloud [...]

alignment, part deux

Tuesday’s post about synchronicity, dharma, Grace or what you will, was titled “alignment” and someone emailed me to ask why. Well- I had a longer post in mind and never got around to the part that had to do with alignment. Which turned out to be a good thing, cause Kimberly left a comment [...]

appreciation

Many of the blog posts I read today had some take on the theme of gratitude, what with it being Yanksgiving (that’s Canadian for American Thanksgiving) tomorrow and all.
And it reminded me of something I read in What Happy Women Know by Dan Baker:
Psychologist Sonja Lyobomirsky, PhD, at the University of California, Riverside, suggests keeping [...]

alignment

Part of the Great Big Dreams e-seminar I am doing with Christine Kane is a group phone call every Sunday. Today we talked about those things that happen at just the right time, in just the right way that they seem like a gift from the universe. Jung called this synchronicity. One of my [...]

extra! extra! read all about it! gottman raises ratio!

Earlier, I linked to the Edge interview with John Gottman as a good primer for his work.  Upon rereading it, I realized it’s not so good after all – it crams too much in and is too science-y.  This chapter from Malcolm Gladwell’s book Blink is a much better intro to Gottman.
Quick tidbit from our [...]

keep choosing

How many people are trapped in their everyday habits: part numb, part frightened, part indifferent? To have a better life we must keep choosing how we are living.
- Albert Einstein

for my favourite dixie chick

My friend Andrea is going through a rough time. She has a Friday tradition at her blog of posting a random playlist of songs from her ipod – so I thought I’d like to post a playlist for Andrea today.
And I’ll start with this one:

and the rest:
You oughta know – Alanis [...]