Archive for the ‘Practices’ Category
Monday, April 12th, 2010
The kath is the belly centre, also known as the hara (in some Buddhist traditions) and the don tien (in martial arts) or dantien. In the Diamond Approach we use the term kath, and one of the foundational practices is the kath meditation. The kath centre is also known as the ...
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Sunday, April 4th, 2010
Dan Brown is coming to Vancouver to lead a meditation retreat on May 14 - 21. His gradual approach allows us to learn to meditate effectively, with step-by-step descriptions of the ways to practice, precise descriptions of the various stages and their intended realizations, and the typical problems that arise ...
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Monday, March 29th, 2010
2011 Dates TBD
$475 includes camping accommodations, teaching fees, and delicious organic vegetarian meals
Location: Monkey Valley Retreat Centre
Begins with dinner on Friday and ends Sunday afternoon
Guides: Angela and Karen
Learn to run free of injury!
Learn to run effortlessly!
Learn to be energy efficient!
Learn how to create Chi Energy Flow!
Angela no longer has Achilles ...
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Saturday, January 16th, 2010
Speaking of bears, I'd like to invite you to a yoga class I am teaching on Tuesday, January 19. It's free for members of the Society for Technical Communication. If you're not a member, it's $15 to pre-register online, or $20 at the door.
One of the poses I'll be teaching is ...
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Sunday, August 30th, 2009
As I mentioned previously, I just returned from the Diamond Approach 10-day summer retreat in California, and I’d like to share some of the learnings from that, because they tie in with the summer part of the wheel. Summer is the time of childhood innocence. In fact, Bill Plotkin writes ...
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Saturday, August 8th, 2009
plate
no plate
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Monday, July 20th, 2009
chocolate
tea
phone service
no chocolate
no tea
no phone service
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Friday, May 15th, 2009
As I continue to tell you the story of the sacred time in the sweat lodge, I am troubled by a recurring theme that has arisen over the years, about cultural appropriation, or misappropriation. I just came across this article from 1993 in the New York Times, Spiritual Seekers Borrow ...
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Thursday, May 14th, 2009
Exciting news... My ten answers to the famous Inside the Actors Studio questions have been posted, with a twist... inside the yoga studio.
Warning, these responses are not for the faint of heart! Or men named Dick. But they have been approved by the YogaBC moderator!
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Thursday, February 19th, 2009
I taught walking meditation to my two classes at the youth correctional institute on Monday night. The first class consisted of three young men. A male guard was in the room, the library, for the first part of the class, working on the computer. So I introduced the meditation, and ...
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